📏 Form Guide

Wigan Athletic

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Wigan will be hoping to bounce back here following the 6-1 League One loss in their previous game against Peterborough United.

The only player to score from Wigan Athletic was Joe Taylor (27'). Kyrell Lisbie (7', 9', 90'), Jimmy-Jay Morgan (41'), Harry Leonard (68') and Pemi Aderoju (84') scored for Peterborough United.

Wigan Athletic have really been misfiring in recent times. Their sum of goals equals just 4 versus opposition teams over their last 6 matches. In those games, Wigan Athletic have also seen the number of goals against them total 8.

Going into this one, Wigan Athletic have not beaten Reading in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Reading

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of AFC Wimbledon in League One competition, Reading and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

For Reading, the goalscorers were Jack Marriott (33') and Jeriel Dorsett (65'). Marcus Browne (8', 53', 71') was the scorer for AFC Wimbledon.

In their last 6 outings, Reading have bagged a tally of 10 goals. Reading have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, their defenders have seen 7 goals go against them. That aside, it remains to be seen if that pattern might be replicated here in this game.

Going into this encounter, Reading are without an away win for the past 7 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 17/09/2022 shows us that Wigan have won 1 of them and Reading 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

An aggregate of 11 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 3 for The Latics and 8 created by The Royals. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.83.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was League One match day 34 on 01/03/2025 when it ended Wigan Athletic 1-2 Reading.

The referee was Ollie Yates.

ℹ️ Team News: Reading

Out of a mainly available group of players, there is only the one fitness issue for the Reading gaffer Leam Richardson to be concerned with. Daniel Kyerewaa (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Reading will have their work cut out to get anything against this Wigan Athletic team who we reckon should score & stay on top.

We therefore fancy a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Wigan Athletic at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be a close one.

Victor Martins, 19:14 10/02/2026