Manchester United vs Reading Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Manchester United

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Manchester United will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 0-3 EFL Cup success vs Nottingham Forest.

In that game, Manchester United had 67% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Manchester United, goals were scored by Marcus Rashford (6'), Wout Weghorst (45') and Bruno Fernandes (89'). Nottingham Forest had 13 shots at goal with 4 on target.

Three or more goals per game were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Manchester United have participated. Their opponents scored 6 of them in this period while Manchester United totted up 14. Previous results aside, time will tell whether that trend shall be replicated here in this match.

Reading

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Stoke City in Championship action, Reading and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Reading managed 61% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Stoke City got 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. Will Smallbone (11'), Tyrese Campbell (57'), Jacob Brown (80') and Dwight Gayle (83') scored for Stoke City.

The stats don’t lie, and Reading have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in all. In defence, Reading can certainly do much better.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 19/01/2008 shows that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Reading. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins whatsoever while Manchester United have just been too good for them, beating them in 100% of those ties.

A combined total of 19 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 15 of them for The Red Devils and 4 being from The Royals. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

ℹ️ Team News: Manchester United

Diogo Dalot (Hamstring Injury) and Donny van de Beek (Knee Injury) won’t be available for Manchester United gaffer Erik ten Hag.

📰 Team News: Reading

Thanks to a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Reading manager Paul Ince has no fitness worries to speak of before this match.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Reading have the firepower to score against this Manchester United lineup, although that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Manchester United after 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 01:58 24/01/2023