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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 97 46 31 4 11 48
2
Ipswich Town 96 46 28 12 6 35
3
Leeds United 90 46 27 9 10 38
4
Southampton 87 46 26 9 11 24
5
West Bromwich 75 46 21 12 13 23
6
Norwich City 73 46 21 10 15 15
7
Hull City 70 46 19 13 14 8
8
Middlesbrough 69 46 20 9 17 9
9
Coventry City 64 46 17 13 16 11
10
Preston North End 63 46 18 9 19 -11
11
Bristol City 62 46 17 11 18 2
12
Cardiff City 62 46 19 5 22 -17
13
Millwall 59 46 16 11 19 -10
14
Swansea City 57 46 15 12 19 -6
15
Watford 56 46 13 17 16 0
16
Sunderland 56 46 16 8 22 -2
17
Stoke City 56 46 15 11 20 -11
18
QPR 56 46 15 11 20 -11
19
Blackburn Rovers 53 46 14 11 21 -14
20
Sheffield Wednesday 53 46 15 8 23 -24
21
Plymouth Argyle 51 46 13 12 21 -11
22
Birmingham City 50 46 13 11 22 -15
23
Huddersfield 45 46 9 18 19 -29
24
Rotherham 27 46 5 12 29 -52

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