📏 Form Guide

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-2 League One loss in their previous game against Cheltenham Town.

The only player to score from Burton Albion was Steve Seddon (45'). Matty Taylor (51') and Curtis Davies (71') scored for Cheltenham Town.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Burton Albion have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Burton Albion have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 11 goals along the way.

Coming into this clash, Burton Albion have not emerged victorious against Reading in their last 2 matches in the league.

Reading

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In their last fixture, Reading drew 2-2 in the League One tie with Barnsley.

For Reading, the goalscorers were Sam Smith (21') and Lewis Wing (81'). Adam Phillips (29') and Fábio Jaló (83') scored for Barnsley.

Demonstrating their appetite for productive matches, we’ve seen goals 20 times in the previous six matches in which Reading have taken to the field, making it an average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposing teams have managed 8 from this total. Let’s see if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Ahead of this meeting, Reading are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head clashes dating back to 11/08/2009 shows us that Burton Albion have won 1 of them and Reading 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league meeting featuring the two was League One match day 10 on 30/09/2023 and the score finished Reading 0-0 Burton Albion.

The match was refereed by Sam Purkiss.

📋 Team News: Burton Albion

The Burton Albion manager Martin Paterson will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go.

In all likelihood, The Brewers could go for a 3-4-2-1 system for the game featuring Thomas Kaminski, Reece Burke, Teden Mengi, Daiki Hashioka, Issa Kabore, Alfie Doughty, Jordan Clark, Ross Barkley, Andros Townsend, Tahith Chong and Carlton Morris.

📋 Team News: Reading

Reading boss Rubén Sellés has not got a full squad to pick from. Sam Hutchinson (Knee injury) and Dom Ballard (Patellar tendon rupture) are not ready for selection.

We believe The Royals seem most likely to utilise a 3-5-2 lineup using Mark Flekken, K. Vassbakk Ajer, Mathias Joergensen, Nathan Collins, Mads Roerslev, Vitaly Janelt, Christian Noergaard, Mathias Jensen, Sergio Reguilon, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Reading and Burton Albion could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. We therefore think that it’s going to be a 1-1 score draw at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 13:07 20/04/2024