📏 Form Guide

Bristol Rovers

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Bristol Rovers won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 0-1 League One defeat last time out to Stevenage.

Jamie Reid (12') was the scorer for Stevenage.

It’s not been often in recent games where Bristol Rovers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Bristol Rovers have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals along the way.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Bristol Rovers:

• haven't won against Reading in their previous 7 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league games. That's never good.

Reading

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Reading will come into the clash following a 1-5 League One win with the downing of Mansfield Town in their previous fixture.

For Reading, the goalscorers were Jayden Wareham (35', 74'), Lewis Wing (57') and Billy Bodin (95'). George Williams (49' Own goal) and Keanu Baccus (62') scored for Mansfield Town.

During their six previous matches, Noel Hunt's Reading have converted a total of 9 times - giving them a goals per game average of 1.5.

A look at their previous results shows us that Reading:

• have not been beaten by Bristol Rovers when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head to head results going back to 04/04/2000 reveals that these encounters have not been fruitful for Bristol Rovers. They’ve not managed to register any wins whatsoever while Reading have just been too good for them, winning in 67% of those games played.

An aggregate of 11 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 3 for The Pirates and 8 belonging to The Royals. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was League One match day 14 on 26/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Reading 1-0 Bristol Rovers.

The match was refereed by Simon Mather.

📰 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Regarding absentees, there’s just the lone fitness concern for the Bristol Rovers manager Iñigo Calderón to contend with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Kamil Conteh (Bone inflammation) misses out.

💡 Prediction

We believe that Reading and Bristol Rovers are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a tight encounter with a 0-0 score at the end of the 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 11:02 26/04/2025