Jagielka stars for Everton

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The Royals, who battled hard at the end to salvage something, slipped to their seventh successive league defeat.

Jagielka stole the show with a headed winner after 62 minutes as Everton struggled to end a run of three games without a goal. They managed it, however, and have still to be beaten in the league in 2008.

Everton boss David Moyes made just one change from the side that drew at Blackburn last weekend, with Leighton Baines out with a calf injury and Joseph Yobo returning, after playing for Nigeria in the African Nations Cup.

His countryman, Ayegbeni Yakubu, who arrived late from the tournament this week, was fined and dropped from the squad for this match. Everton were also without Victor Anichebe (knee) and Steven Pienaar (ankle).

Reading were missing the suspended Ivar Ingimarsson while Leroy Lita had a heel problem. Former Everton winger John Oster stepped in with Ibrahima Sonko also starting.

A minute from the break Tim Cahill wasted the best chance of the half when he hooked wide from a Leon Osman cross and then the Australian headed just over from a corner.

And after 51 minutes half-time substitute James Vaughan stormed down the left to fire in an inviting low cross that both Cahill and Andy Johnson missed in the six-yard box.

The game had improved with more shape and quality about the play, and Everton went ahead on 62 minutes through Jagielka.

Kevin Doyle headed out a corner, and when Leon Osman lobbed the ball back into the six-yard box, Jagielka appeared all on his own to head over Marcus Hahnemann.