Reading FC forward Yakou Meite wrote himself into the club’s history books after he became the club’s all-time top scorer in the Championship at the weekend.
The Ivorian notched the equaliser in Reading’s 2-1 win over Hull City on the weekend in what was his 41st league goal for the Royals. It was also his 150th game for the club.
“I’m really happy to reach 150 games and I am giving my best to this club,” said Meite.
“I think the connection I’ve got with everyone in the training ground and with the fans is really nice.
“I always try to give my best for my family and especially for the fans.
“When they travel five hours up here we at least need to give them a good response from the previous games, which I won’t say was bad, but we didn’t get a good result there (Watford).
“Today (Saturday) we wanted to show them that we will fight to the end which we did and we are all happy.
“That’s why I gave my shirt away at the end. When you travel this far you need to give the fans a good response and we did it.”
The away win puts Reading up to 12th in the Championship table heading into the World Cup break.
Reading now have four weeks off before their next match which is at home to Coventry City on Saturday, December 10.
Meite continued:” The win was much needed. We are very happy especially because it’s a break and we wanted to finish well.
“We have lost before in the last minute so it is our turn to win so we will take it.
“Except for the goal, we were playing well. We deserved to score. I got that first goal from the set piece and this opened the game more.
“The coach told us to stay patient and the goal will come. And it came right at the end so we did have to stay patient.
“We wanted to finish well because it’s been a tough, tough month with a lot of games and not many good results.
“We wanted to finish before the break with a win and after the break we start fresh again.”
