Millwall vs Reading Prediction: Reading FC look the better team on paper

On Saturday, Reading will be welcomed to The Den by the hosts Millwall. Both sides are motivated to win this game and maintain their spot in the top-10 standings with the motivation to go in top six.

Millwall’s Form

This season in Championship, Millwall's form is Good overall with 2 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses. This performance currently places Millwall at 10th out of 24 teams in the Championship Table, winning 40% of matches. Millwall's home form is excellent with the following results: 2 wins, 0 draws, and 0 losses. Millwall has scored a total of 7 goals this season in the Championship. Their last match was average as they lost to Norwich City by 2-0. A win will definitely bring them among the top-of-the-table teams. Prior to that match, they only manage to draw the match with a scoreline of 2-2 against Swansea. Their performance was very decent as they were on the verge of losing the match.

Millwall’s possible starting lineup:

B Afobe, T Burey, G Honeyman, S Malone, G Saville, B Mitchell, D McNamara, M Wallace, S Hutchinson, R Leonard and B Bialkowski

Reading’s Form

This season in Championship, Reading's form is Excellent overall with 3 wins, 0 draws, and 2 losses. This performance currently places Reading at 3rd out of 24 teams in the Championship Table, winning 60% of matches. Reading's away form is considered very poor, as a result of 0 wins, 0 draws, and 2 losses. Reading has scored a total of 6 goals this season in the Championship. A win will definitely bring them to the top of the table with 12 points. Their last two matches went in their favour as they beat Middlesbrough by 1-0 and Blackburn Rovers by a good margin of 3-0. They will probably try to keep up their winning streak and look for a hat trick of wins.

Reading’s predicted lineup

S Long, T Ince, J Hoilett, T Fomah, M Loum, J Hendrick, A Yiadom, T Mclntyre, S Hulchinson, T Holmes and D Bouzanis

Millwall vs Reading expert tips

Reading FC has recently been in better form than host Millwall. The visitors are at the 3rd spot on the standings with 9 points to their name. Meanwhile, Millwall is not far behind. The host is at the 10th spot on the standings but the point difference is just two points as Millwall has 7 points in front of their name. There have been 32 meetings between Reading FC and Millwall FC in which Reading FC has won 14 times whereas Millwall FC has won 10 times. 8 matches ended in a draw. The goal difference is 40-29 in Reading FC's favour.

Talking about the last 16 meetings of Reading FC with Millwall FC playing at home, Millwall FC have won 6 times and Reading FC also has 6 wins to their name. 4 matches resulted in draws. Again, the goal difference is 14-12 in favour of Reading FC. In fact that statistics are in favour of visitors, we can expect a thrilling match between Millwall FC and Reading FC at ‘The Den’. Given the recent performances of both teams, we feel that Reading FC will emerge victorious. We expect less than 3 goals in the game.