Reading prepare for this following their 0-4 result versus Sheffield United, a game they learned a lot from. Will they show it against Stoke City?
- Reading have won all their matches at home so far.
- Stoke City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
The visiting Stoke City played their last game only four days ago, a Championship match.
Reading form and stats
Perfect Championship season at home so far for Reading 3 wins from 3 appearances. Reading has recorded two wins in a row here at Select Car Leasing Stadium, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
No payout for Reading in their previous match, an away game at Sheffield United that ended in defeat 0-4. The first loss after going unbeaten in three league rounds. Reading were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. The striker Ince outshone all others in that game and received a match rating of 7.14 out of 10. Ince hit one key pass and had 22 successful passes (of 26 total).
In the game before, an away victory match versus Millwall with a 1-0 scoreline."Both teams to score yes/no" info: This club have played 5 league matches in a row with only one (or none) club scoring.
Defensively Reading have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 3 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Stoke City form and stats
Stoke City are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Championship, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
There were no winners in Stoke's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Swansea City (placed 21st). As mentioned above, Stoke City drew the match against Swansea City. Manager Neil brought on Campbell to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Thompson got a match rating of 7.81 in that game, top player of the team. Thompson hit four key passes.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Blackburn Rovers with the score of 1-0.The attacking power of Stoke City when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away. Stoke City have conceded 5 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Reading one win, six draws and Stoke City three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Brown 2 goals |  L. Baker 2 goals |   T. Mcintyre 1 goals |
Reading missing players
Stoke City missing players
| Reading | Stoke City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 33% | 29% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 5.1 | 4.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.7 | 5.1 |
| 3.7 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 12 | 7.7 | 6 |
| 2.1 | 4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 9.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.7 | 12.9 |
| 3 | 3.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 3.7 |
| 33% | 60% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 17% | 27% |
| 11.3 | 9.7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 13 | 11.3 |
| 3.1 | 1.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 4 | 3.4 |
- Reading have won all their matches at home so far.
- Reading haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stoke City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Stoke City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Stoke City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheffield United | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 |
| 2 | Norwich City | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | Burnley | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | Watford | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Blackburn Rovers | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 6 | Reading | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 7 | Bristol City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | Sunderland | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | Queens Park Rangers | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 10 | Preston North End | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| 11 | Hull City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 11 |
| 12 | Rotherham United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 | Luton Town | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 14 | West Bromwich Albion | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 15 | Blackpool | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 16 | Stoke City | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 17 | Cardiff City | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 8 |
| 18 | Wigan Athletic | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -3 | 7 |
| 19 | Millwall | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -4 | 7 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 6 |
| 21 | Swansea City | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 6 |
| 22 | Birmingham City | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 4 |
| 24 | Coventry City | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 1 |
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