\n City are once again picking themselves up for another Valley Parade reaction after a fifth straight away loss.\n<\/p>\n
\n The manner of the weekend loss really stung, coughing up two late goals to the Royals in a game they had controlled.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Bantams skipper Power is demanding heads are straight back up to get ready for Leyton Orient on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI’m straight back in the saddle,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are no hiding places in football and it’s my job as captain to drag the lads along.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s no time to sulk. We’re in the business end now.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve got to try and go and win another home game. We\u2019re still in a great position so keep that momentum going and let’s go and finish the season strongly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n City were within touching distance of their first away points since January 4 when Reading subs Paddy Lane and Matt Ritchie struck late to snatch the unlikeliest comeback victory.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the response from the travelling fans struck a chord with Power.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve certainly got to do better but you could see the reaction from the away fans clapping us off.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt would have been quite easy for them to have a go. They were as disappointed as we all were.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut they could see we gave everything and could appreciate that. It still doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t do better.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFootball has ways of just kicking you in the stomach out of nowhere.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think in recent weeks we’ve let ourselves down away from home. Luton was a bit of an exception but, other than that, we’ve had some disappointing away days.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut I think that was a Bradford City performance. That’s as close to a home game I feel like we’ve played in a long time but we got no points.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n City\u2019s 2.41 points-per-game ratio at home is the second highest in League One behind leaders Cardiff. But their record away from the University of Bradford Stadium is becoming an increasing concern.\n<\/p>\n
\n They have lost seven of the last eight away games \u2013 a slump that Orient kicked off when they came from behind to win on the weekend before Christmas.\n<\/p>\n
\n Power felt City\u2019s performance at Reading shows it is not a mindset issue.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cI had a chat with the senior players on Friday night about coming to the ground, sticking our chest out and starting to show we are a good team.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve proved that over the course of the season. We’ve gone away from home and beaten Cardiff, Blackpool and Plymouth.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve picked up some important points on the road. Stevenage haven’t lost many at home, neither have Bolton. We’ve shown that we can do it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cUltimately, lately, we haven’t. We’re searching for that formula to get us back to it and that was close.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt would be easy to be on the floor but that\u2019s football.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was nearly a perfect performance but nearly is not enough.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was a tough one to take. I was disappointed not to take three points, never mind one.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt should have been locked up, three points and done. But if you replicate that performance nine times out of ten you\u2019ll get your rewards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City are once again picking themselves up for another Valley Parade reaction after a fifth straight away loss.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-127942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}