Bristol Rovers vs Reading Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 26)

📊 Form Guide

Bristol Rovers

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Bristol Rovers will be hoping for a better result after the 0-1 League One losing effort in their last game against Stevenage.

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

It has been seldom in recent times that Bristol Rovers haven’t conceded. The facts show that Bristol Rovers have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals during that time. That sort of trend isn’t assured to follow through here, however.

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 go into this encounter following a 1-5 League One win over Mansfield Town in their last match.

For Reading, the goals were scored by Jayden Wareham (35', 74'), Lewis Wing (57') and Billy Bodin (90'). George Williams (49' Own goal) and Keanu Baccus (62') scored for Mansfield Town.

Throughout their 6 latest matches, Noel Hunt's Reading have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 9 times therefore earning them a goals scored 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 study of their past head to head results going back to 04/04/2000 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Bristol Rovers. They’ve not been able to register any victories at all whereas Reading have been too good for them, finishing as winners in 67 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

In all, 11 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 3 of them from The Pirates and 8 coming from The Royals. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was League One match day 14 on 26/10/2024 and the score finished Reading 1-0 Bristol Rovers.

The referee was Simon Mather.

📋 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Bristol Rovers manager Iñigo Calderón to be concerned about due to a largely intact set of players. 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.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking the latest betting odds for this match in the win-draw-win market, backing Bristol Rovers is best priced at 2.7, a wager on the game finishing all-square is 3.4 and selecting the winner to be Reading gets you 2.4. These are the most competitive prices on offer at the moment.

Victor Martins, 06:08 22/04/2025