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Commentary
2¹DEPAY booked for arguing with the referee.
5¹A great save prevented HALLER from scoring an exceptional goal.
7¹MANÉ's shot was well held by the Reading 'keeper.
11¹CHERKI booked for a clumsy foul on WILLIAM CARVALHO.
13¹An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of VLACHODIMOS by HALLER.
14¹GOAL!! A mix up between BADIASHILE and the Aston Villa 'keeper allowed KRUNIC to drill the ball into the empty net. (1-0 Reading)
16¹Uncertainty in the Reading defence enabled CHERKI to hit an effort over the bar.
17¹A free-kick from RABIOT floated just beyond the far post.
18¹GOAL!! A hefty goal-kick from BADIASHILE caught the Reading defence square and MANÉ rushed through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (1-1)
23¹GOAL!! A great run from KARSDORP gave WILLIAM CARVALHO space on the left and POLITANO stroked in his pin-point pass. (2-1 Reading)
27¹A pin-point pass found MANÉ and his left foot shot went narrowly wide.
28¹MEITÉ was put clear by MINGS and he dummied the 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
37¹The Aston Villa 'keeper was able to block a poor shot from DAVID NERES.
12²GOAL!! An imaginative KRUNIC played a wonderful ball down the right to POLITANO who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (3-1 Reading)
17²MANÉ kicked the ball wide of the lefthand post from just inside the area.
20²The stunned RULLI was a mere bystander as a backpass from WILLIAM CARVALHO fell just wide.
21²A shot from LAPORTE was smothered by RULLI.
29²CHERKI knocked the ball to MANÉ who fired it over.
30²A poor strike from MANÉ bounced agonisingly wide.
33²A corner was collected by GÜNTER who forced the ball just beyond the far post.
38²POLITANO headed just beyond the far post.
44²A cross from CHERKI left MANÉ in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 19
Home league form: WLLW
Overall league form: LWLLLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Odysseas VLACHODIMOS5½16½Gerónimo RULLI
Yannick CARRASCO6½27½Rick KARSDORP
Ferland MENDY7 38 Christian GÜNTER
Adrien RABIOT8 48 Rade KRUNIC
Aymeric LAPORTE6½57 Tyrone MINGS
Benoît BADIASHILE7 66½JOSÉ Miguel FONTE(c)
Rayan CHERKI7 77 DAVID NERES Campos
(c)Sadio MANÉ7 87½Matteo POLITANO
(p)Marko LAZETIC6½97½Sébastien HALLER(p)
(f)Mario PASALIC6½106 WILLIAM Silva CARVALHO(f)
Memphis DEPAY5½115½Yakou MEITÉ
Manager
Quilindschy HARTMAN  12  Tom LEES
Tom HEATON  13  Zack STEFFEN
Ángel DI MARÍA  14  Kane WILSON
Lorenzo PELLEGRINI6½15  Andy CARROLL
RICHARLISON de Andrade5½16  Harry CLIFTON
 
Reading
 
League position: 5
Away league form: WXXL
Overall league form: WLWXXWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Reading go through to the next round
Statistics
Aston Villa 1 Reading 3
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 32,075, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Kevin Wright 7½)

Mané 18¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Krunic 14¹, Politano 23¹, Politano 12²
PasalicóRicharlison 13², BadiashileóPellegrini 26² 
  
Depay 2¹, Cherki 11¹ 
16
158
56
47
113
1510
33
43%57%
Man of the match: Christian Günter