Published: 3:45PM GMT 05 Mar 2010
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Reading physical education instructor Brian McDermott Photo: GETTY IMAGES 
Aston Villa physical education instructor Martin O"Neill Photo: GETTY IMAGES Sunday Mar 7
Reading v Aston VillaMadjeski Stadium, Reading Kick-off: 13.45 GMT TV: ITV1 13.20 GMT, ITV HD 1.20pm
Premier League list Premier League fixtures O"Neill eyes initial Villa win in Mar Cuellar rises Villa fans with Wembley guarantee Aston Villa 1 Manchester United 2 Sport on radioReading physical education instructor Brian McDermott will be increased by the lapse of striker Shane Long for the strife with Aston Villa on Sunday.
The Republic of Ireland general has longed for the last 4 games by cessation after he was sent off in the fifth turn pull with West Brom but he might have to have do with a place on the dais due to Reading"s new great form.
Winger Jobi McAnuff is suspended, however, whilst on-loan Blackburn defender Zurab Khizanishvili is cup-tied and will miss out.
Midfielders Jem Karacan (hand) and Kalifa Cisse (dead leg) sojourn sidelined as McDermott"s side see to means an additional crater dissapoint after already knocking out Liverpool and Burnley.
O"Neill will await the lapse of his general fortuitous with an component of regard but a purify check of health is expected to outcome in a identical starting XI to the one that lost 2-1 to Manchester United in the Carling Cup last last weekend.
Aston Villa executive defender Richard Dunne is set to be fit. The Republic Of Ireland general longed for his country"s mid-week confront with Brazil after pang a leg damage in the Carling Cup last reversal opposite Manchester United.
Villa physical education instructor Martin O"Neill has no uninformed vital damage worries as his side target to stop Reading adding a third Premier League scalp after their wins over Liverpool and Burnley in the competition.
Skipper Stiliyan Petrov and defender James Collins did not sight currently but came by mid-week games for Bulgaria and Wales unscathed.
Romance rating
Reading are usually 4 points outward the Championship"s relegation zone, nonetheless using point to their unsatisfactory joining deteriorate has been a conspicuous FA Cup run.
The red blood of Liverpool, Burnley, and West Bromwich Albion is already on their hands, 3 big scalps that have brought the club"s initial FA Cup quarter-final given 1927.
As if that were not enough, the reconstruction is being masterminded by Brian McDermott, who has been at the bar given 200, when he assimilated as arch scout. He has given coached the girl group and pot prior to being done caretaker physical education instructor last December, receiving over henceforth in January.
Touchline duel
Brian McDermott v Martin O"Neill: McDermott"s appointment at Reading was primarily seen as small some-more than a income saver, but his formula only one better in the last eight games in all competitions verbalise for themselves.
The one-time Arsenal midfielder has brought a little singular ideas to the precision ground, generally his disinterest in video analysis. He has not shown his players a singular video of the antithesis given his arrival. Such an proceed would dazzle O"Neill, who is a self-confessed advocate of video analysis, mostly personification behind tapes of the compare his side have only accomplished late in to the night. The span have come up opposite each alternative before. McDermott was partner physical education instructor at Conference side Yeovil Town when they played O"Neill"s Wycombe Wanderers in the Nineties. The diversion finished 2-2.
Keep your eye on...
Jimmy Kebe. One of McDermott"s vital successes has been bringing the most appropriate out of Jimmy Kebe. The drifting winger has scored five goals in his last five games. One of them, opposite West Bromwich Albion in the fifth turn last month, is believed to be the fastest idea in FA Cup history, scored after only 9 seconds.
Key stat
Reading fans can find goal between the statistical tea-leaves: given Martin O"Neill arrived at Aston Villa in Aug 2006, the bar have unsuccessful to win a singular compare in the month of March, notwithstanding twelve attempts.
Probable teams
Reading (4-4-2): Federici; Mills, Griffin, Ingimarsson, Bertrand; Tabb, Howard, Kebe, Sigurdsson; Rasiak, Church.Aston Villa (4-4-2): Guzan; L Young, Cuellar, Dunne, Warnock; A Young, Milner, Petrov, Downing; Heskey, Agbonlahor.
