The Brentford & Reading managers T. Frank and V. Paunovic are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Championship league table.
- Brentford have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Brentford form and stats
3-5-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Brentford so far this season. Brentford haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Stoke City, 56 days ago. Two draws in a row at home now for Brentford.
Brentford travelled for their previous game, a trip to Watford that ended 1-1. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Nottingham Forest.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Brentford matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, two draws and two defeats (from six games).
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Newcastle United are coming to town in three days.
The Brentford fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 9 matches. Brentford's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Reading form and stats
The visitors are W4-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.
Reading might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Norwich City proved too strong as Reading slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Madejski Stadium. Preceding that game was the away victory against Queens Park Rangers with the score of 1-0.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Reading when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing two and winning one game.
The travelling fans enjoy Reading's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 9 league matches away. 12 goals have been conceded by Reading in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Brentford five wins, two draws and Reading three victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Toney 16 goals |   L. Santos João 11 goals |  Y. Meïté 6 goals |
Brentford missing players
Reading missing players
| Brentford | Reading | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 19 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 28 | 13 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 15 | 29 |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 84% | 78% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 89% | 95% |
| 74% | 78% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 78% | 79% |
| 42% | 44% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | 53% |
| 21% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 21% |
| 11% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 16% |
| 53% | 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 47% |
| 42% | 44% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 42% |
| 21% | 22% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 11% | 16% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.6 | 13.8 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 9.6 | 10.6 |
| 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 41% | 41% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 42% | 34% |
- Brentford have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Norwich City | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 40 |
| 2 | AFC Bournemouth | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 35 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 37 |
| 3 | Watford | 19 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 34 |
| 4 | Swansea City | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Reading | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 33 |
| 6 | Brentford | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 32 |
| 7 | Middlesbrough | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 30 |
| 8 | Stoke City | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 30 |
| 9 | Bristol City | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 30 |
| 10 | Cardiff City | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 11 | Blackburn Rovers | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 28 |
| 12 | Barnsley | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 28 |
| 13 | Luton Town | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -4 | 26 |
| 14 | Huddersfield Town | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -5 | 25 |
| 15 | Millwall | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 24 |
| 16 | Preston North End | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 18 | -4 | 23 |
| 17 | Birmingham City | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -3 | 22 |
| 18 | Coventry City | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -7 | 22 |
| 19 | Queens Park Rangers | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 19 |
| 20 | Rotherham United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -9 | 16 |
| 21 | Nottingham Forest | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 13 | -11 | 16 |
| 22 | Derby County | 19 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 16 |
| 23 | Wycombe Wanderers | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -17 | 11 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | -11 | 9 |
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