Neither side could break the deadlock in the opening 45 minutes of Southampton's Premier League match against Reading this afternoon.

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The hosts came close to grabbing a goal in the opening 10 minutes when Nathaniel Clyne found a way down the right side before fizzing in a cross that Morgan Schneiderlin could only put just wide.

The Saints tested Adam Federici in the Reading goal midway through the half, but the keeper was equal to Rickie Lambert's curling effort.

Reading's first real sight of goal came shortly before the half-hour mark when Jay Tabb burst into the box before digging out an effort that Kelvin Davis parried away.

The visitors came within inches of finding the opener in the dying stages of the half when Sean Morrison headed an effort across goal which Hal Robson-Kanu nodded against the post.