Aston Villa vs Reading

12/1- Under the shadows of the deal regarding the transfer of star defender Martin O’Neill to Italian giants Juventus, Aston Villa prepare to take on the visiting Reading at home. Aston Villa have fallen to the 7th position on the points table are equal on points to the sixth placed Everton would be fighting for their spots. Villa have a realistic chance of qualifying for the European competition this season as the difference between them and the 5th placed Liverpool is just a couple of points. Their confidence for the match would be decently high as well as they have won their last two games with the last one being a 2-1 home win against Tottenham. On the other hand Reading are placed 13th and have rapidly fallen in rankings after two disastrous weeks and two nightmare matches. Their last loss came against Portsmouth in their home ground with a 2-0 score line that was also their last match plated till date.
Villa would go into this match thinking to get the full points out of this and try and at least reach the 6 th position and then fight with Liverpool for the final European competition place. Playing at home will be great advantage considering the amount of support the Aston Villa players would get. Agbonlahor has been the most prolific striker for Villa this season and the home team would love to see him all the tricks and score some fabulous goals at home.
Reading on the other hand would like to take the match to the stretch they can manage. Their main goal would be to use this match to get some good experience and may be some points as well as their next few matches would be high testers against the best teams. Kitson is their premier striker but he needs to beware of the cards, overall a balanced competition can be expected.
Prediction: 2-1, Aston Villa win