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Steve Bruce was livid after watching his Aston Villa side make ‘more mistakes today than we have in the past two months’.

Villa were beaten 3-1 by Reading at Villa Park thanks to a brace from Joseph Mendes and a penalty from Lewis Grabban. Captain James Chester had levelled for Villa in the first-half before the claret and blues succumbed to two second-half strikes.

And Bruce, whose team came into the game following a nine-match unbeaten run, was angry after ‘individual errors’ cost his team against Jaap Stam’s Royals.

“I think we’ve made more mistakes today than we have in the past two months,” Bruce explains. “We’ve been punished. We’ve given really, really bad goals away. We had good opportunities ourselves.

“But if you make the mistakes that we have today then rightly so you are going to get punished.

“Reading are a good side. They’ve been there all season and if you hand them goals in the way we just have then it’s going to be a difficult afternoon.

“I still think we’ve got a long way to go.”