Match Day Villa v Reading

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Aston Villa could have leading scorer Jonathan Kodjia back for the home game with Reading after he returned to training.

Kodjia lasted only 36 minutes of the 1-1 draw with Burton before limping off and was replaced by Scott Hogan but has since returned to training with the Villa first-team squad.

Hogan, who has been out with an ankle injury, could start against Reading if Kodjia is not fit enough with the former Bristol City man taking his place on the bench.


Gabby Agbonlahor is still out with a hamstring injury and Rushian Hepburn-Murphy continues his rehabilitation following an ankle problem.

Jordan Obita and Danzell Gravenberch will be pushing to start for the Royals as they look to bounce back from a 7-1 thrashing at Norwich last time out.

That defeat ended a three-match winning streak for Jaap Stam's promotion hopefuls and it remains to be seen if the Dutchman makes changes as a result.

Obita and Gravenberch recovered from respective leg and ankle injuries to come off the bench at Carrow Road and could be in contention to be drafted in to Stam's starting XI.

Paul McShane (calf), Joey van den Berg (hamstring) and Deniss Rakels (ankle) are all expected to be missing but Tiago Ilori (knee) could feature.

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Meh. Draw or win. Can't see Reading winning, though I stand to be corrected.
 

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Would take a scrappy 1.0 win all day long . You only have to look at the table to know reading are a good team. I can't see us losing either aslong as kodjia starts.
 

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A point please, any point will do. Puts us more than one win away from Fulham, draw away from Sheffield Wednesday.

Our record against Villa is terrible, and they are the only club who are capable of doing the double over us this season.

Fear this may be too soon after Norwich, in that we don't have some of the players who were missing then back.
 

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Am I the only one who thinks we should be playing Kodjia AND Hogan up top in all the rest of the games this season? We need to hit the ground running next season if we want promotion so we should be trying to get a partnership started now. We don't have anything to play for this season so we should be getting the team sorted for next season.

Predicting a 2-1 win today but wouldn't be disappointed with a draw.
 

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Not the best start! 0-1 6 mins.

Edit - now 1-1 . 14 mins
 

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Drop our best two attacking players and score 3 goals away at an in-form team. I'll take that.

Not that I would have expected this 2 hours ago.
 

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Sounds like a fairly even game but they took their chances and we didn't. Not a fan of the line-up today , need to go for it more at home. Getting a bit sick of trying to grind out results at this stage, we have been very lucky to win games recently, could have easily been loses.

Fair play to Reading though, massive win for them and good luck in the play-offs.
 

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Win lose or draw we are poor anyway so the performance was a standard villa performance for this season. obviously we were playing a decent team yesterday and they took their chances and they are in the play offs on merit. We are a standard midtable championship club who have underachieved. Another defeat at Fulham then two wins on the bounce against blues and Blackburn will be my predictions for the next few games. Brighton lady day will be as meaningless as it can get for both clubs as they will already be champions. Hurry up next season please.
 

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