Reading FC boss Paul Ince described the Royals’ win over Swansea City as a ‘chaotic’ game of football.
The Royals went two goals ahead with goals from Andy Carroll and Tom Ince despite a missed penalty from Yakou Meite.
The win means that Reading climb up to eighth in the Championship table.
“We made hard work of it, but that’s us,” said Ince.
“It’s the way we are at this moment in time.
“We’re at a club that’s not used to winning games consistently.
“I’m delighted that’s three out of four we’ve won. We’ve got to get used to winning games and feeling comfortable when we’re in a winning position.
“The way they play football it’s a manager’s worst nightmare. You try to get them up the park and they just don’t move.
“Eventually it’s just fingers crossed and hope you get the result. We have to be braver and get higher.
“Even if we scored the penalty I wouldn’t have felt comfortable after what happened at the Liberty Stadium where we were 2-0 up and then lost 3-2. You’ve got to hit the target, you’ve got to score.
“AC took the last one, we’ve got a few penalty takers. Shane has taken them and Tom (Ince) can take them.
“Yak said he wanted to take it but if you do that, you’ve got to score.”
Ince was unhappy with his team dropping deep to defend the lead but was pleased with their persistence to see the game out having lost a two goal lead to Swansea earlier in the season.
He continued: “All of a sudden you could sense it and feel it and know what’s going to happen. We were defending deep and they had a free header three minutes into injury time. You can’t allow people to have free headers in the six yard.
“We were panicking and you can’t do that when you’re defending, you have to be cool and calm.
“It put pressure on our goal and at times we rode our luck in the second-half. It was chaotic football and that’s not good for a manager of my age that’s for sure.
“We have to learn from those mistakes because you won’t always ride the luck.
“Luckily for us we managed to hold on. It was a good game of football and very exciting and now I know why Sky keeps picking us every week.”
