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Reading vs Wigan Prediction & Betting tips
Now Huddersfield Town has secured a place in the playoffs last Tuesday, the battle for the remaining tickets is only interesting. Reading seems to be one of the main candidates for the remaining tickets. Wigan, on the other hand, relegates to degradation and will most likely focus on a season in the League One.
Reading :
With two more games to go, and a six-point lead at number seven Leeds United, it seems almost sure that Reading will go for the play-offs. The team of Jaap Stam has scored enough points in the past few weeks to keep the other candidates in the top positions (Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday and Fulham). With a match against the number twenty-three of the league competition, it seems that it is no longer possible to go to Reading.
Although in the last few weeks both visits to Norwich City and Nottingham Forest were lost, trust is still very high at Reading. The team leaves week in, week out that it has built up a full team in the course of the season that is hard to beat. Especially in the own Madejski Stadium there is usually no opportunity for the opposing party to take the three points. Since mid-February, only Newcastle United has been able to get a point on a visit to Reading. The other five games ended in a victory for The Royals.
The debut season of Jaap Stam seems to be a great success, because honestly, honestly, no one expected at the start of the season to finish Reading in the second final round of the game. In England, the critics were extra charmed by Manchester United’s former player, who is still known as The Dutch Destroyer on the other side of the channel. In a few months, he has managed to make it clear to the team that it is a difficult task for each opponent to win from Reading FC, normally (except Norwich City).
Probable Setup Reading
Al Habsi, Gunter, Moore, Blackett, Obita, Kelly, Williams, Popa, Swift, Grabban, Kermogant
Wigan :
After weeks ago, Rotherham United was already sentenced to football in the League One next year, it appears to be the victim of Wigan. The Latics have a backlog of six points in the safe twenty-first position and thus seem to be unable to play themselves safely. First of all, the hard-hitting outfit at Reading is on the program, and if it’s not enough next week, Leeds’s fifth United will be visiting Wigan.
In the last few weeks, Graham Barrow’s team still went to the end and with two wins in a row against Barnsley and Rotherham United, it seemed like a wonder. Last week, however, there was a lost visit to Brighton & Hove Albion, and although this is not a shame, there seems to be no further season in the Championship for Wigan Athletic. The team will have to win wonderfully twice, hoping that both Birgmingham City and Blackburn Rovers will not take any more points in the remaining two duels. The chance of this scenario is not too big and it seems that after a single season at the second level of England, The Latics may turn to a lower level, the League One.
Probable setup Wigan Athletic
Gilks, Perkins, Burn, Morgan, Warnock, MacDonald, Burke, Hanson, Tunnicliffe, Jacobs, Obertan
Reading vs Wigan head to head
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