Aston Villa v Reading--January 12th [R]

[prvev]

Teams
Aston Villa Reading
22 Scott Carson (G) (G) Marcus Hahnemann 1
3 Wilfred Bouma (D) (D) Ulises De la Cruz 23
15 Curtis Davies (D) (D) Ivar Ingimarsson 16
5 Martin Laursen (D) (D) Graeme Murty 2
6 Gareth Barry (M) (D) Nicky Shorey 3
26 Craig Gardner (M) (M) Kalifa Cisse 4
19 Stiliyan Petrov (M) (M) Brynjar Gunnarsson 6
20 Nigel Reo-Coker (M) (M) James Harper 15
11 Gabriel Agbonlahor (S) (M) Stephen Hunt 10
10 John Carew (S) (S) Kevin Doyle 9
7 Ashley Young (S) (S) Dave Kitson 12
Substitutes
13 Stuart Taylor (G) (G) Adam Federici 32
16 Zat Knight (D) (D) Alex Pearce 35
28 Shaun Maloney (M) (M) Bobby Convey 17
9 Marlon Harewood (S) (S) Leroy Lita 8
17 Moustapha Salifou (S) (S) Shane Long 24

[Neeto]

Goal scored by Carew in the 22nd...
Villa 1-0 Reading

[Neeto]

HT...
It is still Villa 1-0 Reading

[Neeto]

Laursen with the goal
Villa 2-0 Reading :(

[bouncingsoul44]

3 - nil, Carew scores another. Not a good game for us.

EDIT: Harper scores! We're still going to lose, but at least we took away the shutout.

[Neeto]

Carew scores in 87th...
Harper scores in 90th:)
However, it's not enough and Villa wins 3-1.

[rms5555]

I was looking at the schedule and it doesn't look good. I only see one clear chance for points before the beginning of March. Comming up we have ManU, Chelsea, Bolton, Everton and Ashton Villa again. Is anyone else nervous?

[bouncingsoul44]

I was looking at the schedule and it doesn't look good. I only see one clear chance for points before the beginning of March. Comming up we have ManU, Chelsea, Bolton, Everton and Aston Villa again. Is anyone else nervous?

Yes, very nervous. I think we may be able to pull a result or two out of Everton, Bolton or Aston Villa (at the Madejski for Villa, right?), but will be very hard. Maybe Matejovsky will be amazing or something and really lock us in a winning mode (knock on wood).

[Pablo Chicago]

22 games in and only 5 points clear of relegation.

Reading owns the record for most goals allowed on the road (32), and are tied with Derby for most goals allowed (47) overall. That's a little over 2 goals a match they're conceding to the competition.

[Neeto]

22 games in and only 5 points clear of relegation.

Now we are only 2 points clear of relegation thanks to Sunderland's win today. We are still in a relegation battle and it will be tough to get points in our upcoming matches, but I think we'll take a few.

[Convey Crew]

I think we can stay mid table but I was hoping to qualify for a UEFA bid. There is always next year??????