Aston Villa 3-0 Reading: result and report

Aston Villa 3-0 Reading

Championship · Tuesday 3 April 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa beat Reading 3-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 3 April 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Birkir Bjarnason opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Birkir Bjarnason (46'), Conor Hourihane (63') and Scott Hogan (70'). Reading did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Reading received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 4th on 70 points from 39 and Reading 19th on 39 points from 39. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 3rd with 90 points, and Reading 20th with 44.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Reading in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to C. Hourihane of Aston Villa (8.9), ahead of Robert Snodgrass (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Aston Villa wins, 0 draws and 3 for Reading.

Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-L-W-W and Reading's W-L-L-D-D.