The Swansea City & Reading managers S. Cooper and V. Paunovic are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Championship league table.
- Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals (12) in Championship
It's no vacation for neither Swansea nor Reading as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Swansea City form and stats
21 points is a decent return from 10 Championship games here at Liberty Stadium for Swansea City. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.
Swansea are confident in defense, having played 233 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Swansea enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Queens Park Rangers's place. The match ended 2-0 with Jamal Lowe and André Ayew scoring. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Barnsley.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Swansea City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 18 games) they have won eight times, drawn five and lost five.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Swansea City, as the Championship home game vs Watford is only three days away.
Swansea has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Swansea have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Reading form and stats
As the visiting team in Championship matches, Reading have produced an overall stat of 4-3-3 so far.
Reading are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Championship against Luton Town (placed 15th). Prior to that match, the Reading manager V. Paunovic faced defeat when travelling to Brentford and losing 1-3.
Reading are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, eight draws and nine defeats. From a total of 21 matches.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Reading manager V. Paunovic as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Huddersfield Town.
Reading has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 10 games. As for defending, Reading rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Swansea won seven games, three matches ended with a draw and Reading has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixTop Goalscorers
  L. Santos João 11 goals |   A. Ayew Pelé 8 goals |  J. Lowe 6 goals |
Swansea City missing players
Reading missing players
| Swansea City | Reading | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 25 | 13 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 16 | 32 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 7 | 15 | 27 |
| 90% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 90% | 95% |
| 71% | 70% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | 81% |
| 14% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | 24% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 30% | 14% |
| 33% | 30% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 70% | 52% |
| 57% | 70% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 38% |
| 19% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 10% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 11.2 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 9.5 | 10.2 |
| 3.6 | 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
| 33% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 39% | 34% |
- Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals (12) in Championship
- Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Championship
- Swansea City has the most clean sheets (7) at home in Championship
- Swansea City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Swansea City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| 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 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 43 |
| 2 | Swansea City | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 39 |
| 3 | AFC Bournemouth | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 35 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 38 |
| 4 | Brentford | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 38 |
| 5 | Reading | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 32 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 36 |
| 6 | Watford | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 34 |
| 7 | Stoke City | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| 8 | Middlesbrough | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 33 |
| 9 | Bristol City | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 33 |
| 10 | Barnsley | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -2 | 31 |
| 11 | Blackburn Rovers | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 35 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 29 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 29 |
| 13 | Preston North End | 21 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | -2 | 29 |
| 14 | Huddersfield Town | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 29 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -4 | 28 |
| 15 | Luton Town | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -5 | 27 |
| 16 | Millwall | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 25 |
| 17 | Birmingham City | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -6 | 23 |
| 18 | Coventry City | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -8 | 23 |
| 19 | Queens Park Rangers | 21 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -10 | 20 |
| 20 | Nottingham Forest | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 14 | -11 | 18 |
| 21 | Rotherham United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -9 | 16 |
| 22 | Derby County | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -13 | 16 |
| 23 | Sheffield Wednesday | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 13 |
| 24 | Wycombe Wanderers | 21 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 21 | -18 | 12 |
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