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Low-scoring encounter expected between Wigan and Reading

Wigan Athletic vs Reading - 30/11/2019

Low-scoring encounter expected between Wigan and Reading
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Despite gaining a point in a 2-2 draw away from home at Millwall in midweek, Wigan Athletic’s overall poor form away from home has seemingly caught up with The Latics as they now find themselves in the relegation zone ahead of this weekend’s action in the Championship.

6 matches without a win in the second tier have dumped Wigan into the bottom three after having lost to Derby County, Swansea City, Brentford and Stoke City and it looks like being a long and tough battle against relegation from here on in for Paul Cook’s side, who will play host to fellow strugglers, Reading, at their DW Stadium this Saturday.

Wigan have still yet to register an away win so far this season as they’ve slumped to 7 defeats from their 10 matches on the road to date.

This has been a contributing factor in their slide into the bottom three, and having lost their last 2 matches on the trot at home, things look bleak for Wigan at the moment.

Despite a solid start at home, which saw Wigan win 4 of their first 6 matches at home, they’ve since been handed back-to-back defeats to Swansea City and Brentford, but the goals (or lack thereof) markets look promising - 5 of Wigan’s 8 home games have resulted in under 2.5 goals.

Onto Reading, and the visitors were also on the losing end of a 1-0 defeat at home to Leeds United during the week and this followed a narrow 1-0 defeat away from home at Brentford last Saturday.

As a consequence, Mark Bowen’s side have dropped down to 18th place and find themselves just 2 points ahead of their Saturday’s hosts, Wigan Athletic, so this encounter takes on even greater importance in what could be dubbed an early relegation clash at the DW Stadium.

Following Bowen’s apparent self-appointment as manager of The Royals, the Berkshire club embarked upon a promising 4-match sequence without defeat which included wins against Preston North End, Millwall and Luton Town, but all of these victories were recorded on home turf at their Madejski Stadium.

Away from home, Reading have collected just 1 win out of their 8 outings to date while goals have also been hard to come by - 6 of Reading’s 8 away matches to date have resulted in under 2.5 goals scored, so we could have a low-scoring encounter on our hands at the DW Stadium this Saturday.

Home team
Away team
Probability %
1X2
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
CH
313634
X
1 - 1
2.33
3.25
2.65 3.25 2.80 1 -1 -1
FT
1 - 3(1 - 0)
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- - -
Championship Regular Season
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Leicester City 94 44 30 4 10 47
2
Leeds United 90 45 27 9 9 39
3
Ipswich Town 89 43 26 11 6 32
4
Southampton 84 44 25 9 10 24
5
West Bromwich 72 44 20 12 12 23
6
Norwich City 72 44 21 9 14 16
7
Hull City 69 44 19 12 13 9
8
Coventry City 63 43 17 12 14 13
9
Middlesbrough 63 44 18 9 17 4
10
Preston North End 63 44 18 9 17 -5
11
Cardiff City 62 44 19 5 20 -11
12
Bristol City 59 44 16 11 17 4
13
Sunderland 56 44 16 8 20 1
14
Swansea City 56 44 15 11 18 -5
15
Watford 53 44 12 17 15 1
16
QPR 53 45 14 11 20 -12
17
Millwall 53 44 14 11 19 -12
18
Stoke City 50 44 13 11 20 -16
19
Blackburn Rovers 49 44 13 10 21 -16
20
Plymouth Argyle 48 44 12 12 20 -11
21
Sheffield Wednesday 47 44 13 8 23 -29
22
Birmingham City 46 44 12 10 22 -16
23
Huddersfield 44 44 9 17 18 -27
24
Rotherham 24 44 4 12 28 -53

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