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Reading face a trip to Wigan Athletic at JJB Stadium on Saturday afternoon, hoping to improve upon an average previous return from this fixture. Of the 16 games played, Royals have recorded 2 wins, and Wigan Ath. have come away with 8 victories.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in May 2005, with Wigan Ath. running out comfortable 3 - 1 winners in a Championship match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2004/2005 | Sun 08 May | Wigan Ath. | 3 - 1 | Reading | CHMP |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 27 Nov | Reading | 1 - 1 | Wigan Ath. | CHMP |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 06 Dec | Wigan Ath. | 0 - 2 | Reading | CHMP |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 08 Nov | Reading | 1 - 0 | Wigan Ath. | CHMP |
| 2001/2002 | Tue 22 Jan | Wigan Ath. | 0 - 2 | Reading | LGE1 |
| 2001/2002 | Sat 22 Dec | Reading | 1 - 1 | Wigan Ath. | LGE1 |
| 2000/2001 | Wed 16 May | Reading | 2 - 1 | Wigan Ath. | D2PO |
Recent respective form guides
Wigan Athletic's dreadful home form has resulted in just 1 victory and 1 draw from their last six played. While Latics have scored 7, a worringly large 10 have been leaked at the other end.
Reading's away form is none too clever either, collecting 2 wins and 3 draws from the last six. The games have constituted a decent return of 12 goals for the Royals, and 5 goals against.
Wigan Ath. are stuck down in the relegation zone of Barclays Premiership with a return of just 0 points from their 1 games thus far. Reading's 3 points from 2 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 10th position.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Wigan Ath. | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 3 |
| Reading | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 11 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Reading are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Wigan Ath. | Latest 4 games ended in defeat. Not won in the 4 most recent games. |
| Reading | Not won in previous 3 away matches. Last drawn game 4 outings ago. |