Stoke City vs Reading Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be hoping for a better result after the 3-1 Championship defeat last time out to Sheffield United.

In that game, Stoke City had 55% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Stoke City was Nick Powell (45'). For their opponents, Sheffield United got 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Iliman Ndiaye (9') and Jayden Bogle (33', 90') scored for Sheffield United.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Stoke City haven’t conceded. The facts show that Stoke City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 8 goals along the way.

Their past results show that Stoke City:

• are winless against Reading in their last 2 matches in the league.
• have not won at home in their last 3 league matches.

Reading

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In the game prior to this, Reading drew 2-2 in the Championship tie with Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Reading had 37% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Reading was Jeff Hendrick (28', 42'). Queens Park Rangers got 17 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Tyler Roberts (66', 80') was the scorer for Queens Park Rangers.

Looking at their form, and Reading have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals overall. At the back, Reading just haven’t been too solid at all. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

A look at their previous results shows us that Reading:

• haven't beaten Stoke City in games played away from home for the previous 5 league matches. Not good.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 20/06/2020, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Stoke City winning 2 of those games, Reading 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 of them from The Potters and 7 netted by The Royals. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league contest featuring the two was Championship match day 8 on 04/09/2022 when the final score was Reading 2-1 Stoke City.

In that game, Reading had 40% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Lucas João (2', 57').

For their opponents, Stoke City had 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Ben Wilmot (40') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by David Coote.

ℹ️ Team News: Stoke City

The Stoke City boss Alex Neil has no fitness concerns at all before this match with a fully healthy group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Reading

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Reading manager Paul Ince does not have any fitness concerns to report before this game.

🔮 Prediction

In this game, Reading are certainly able to find the back of the net against this Stoke City outfit, although it is unlikely to be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We are anticipating a very close game with a 2-1 win for Stoke City when all is said and done. It’s a very tough call.

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Victor Martins, 01:49 17/01/2023