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title: "Villa player ratings: Reading (A)"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Sheldon Muchmore"
section: "Aston Villa News"
published: "2019-02-02T17:32:21Z"
modified: "2019-02-02T17:33:08Z"
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# Villa player ratings: Reading (A)

Aston Villa had to settle for a point against relegation-threatened Reading on Saturday afternoon.

The first half was one of very few chances, but Villa probably went in at the break feeling that they were unlucky not to be one goal to the good. Luck, I think it is fair to say, hasn’t been on Villa’s side this season and it abandoned them once more when Tommy Elphick saw his towering header hit the bar and fall to safety.

Reading’s best moment of the half came right at the end, but Lovre Kalinic was alert to make a save that he would back himself to make nine times out of ten.

The second half was just as lacking in goalmouth action as the first, and the fact that the first shot on target in the half came in the 81st minute when Tammy Abraham saw his header brilliantly saved by the Reading keeper says all you need to know about the game.

Here are our Vila player ratings for today’s game: