Our prediction for this Championship match:
Nottingham Forest
Match Time & Date:
12/03/2022
16:00
Prediction: 2-1
Reading
Saturday’s football game at the City Ground pits together Nottingham Forest and Reading, the two teams with entirely different ambitions in the season finale. The Reds are eyeing a place in the playoffs, while Reading’s main goal is to secure the Championship survival. Forest have been in a fine form of late, but they are still five points behind top six, with one game in hand. Brice Samba is back from suspension, while both Lewis Grabban and Loic Mbe Soh are likely to miss the game with injuries.
The Royals, on the other hand, suffered yet another dip in form, with the team losing to both Blackpool and Millwall in the previous two league fixtures. Reading have already suffered 11 defeats on the road, and we do not believe that they are capable of spoiling Forest’s party at the City Ground. To make things even worse for the Royals, their injury list is pretty long.
Highlighted Player (Jack Colback):
After spending nine years at Sunderland youth academy, Jack Colback signed a loan deal with Ipswich Town on 6 August, 2009. The left-footed midfielder, who is capable of playing at left back as well, made 37 appearances for the Championship side, scoring four goals in the English second tier.
Against all odds, Colback decided to sign for Sunderland’s bitterest rivals Newcastle United on 9 June, 2014 and it has to be noted he became the first player to move directly from Sunderland to Newcastle since 1998 when Lionel Perez did the same. In 2015 Sunderland fans created a sick banner depicting Colback hanging with a noose around his neck and that caused uproar on social media.
Colback and his teammates from Newcastle dropped to the Championship at the end of the 2015/2016 season, but he decided not to leave the club. Colback scored 5 goals in 64 appearances for Newcastle United in the Premier League. He is well known for his passing skills, he rarely gives the ball away and journalist often compare him with Italy ace Andrea Pirlo.
Highlighted Team (Reading):
Reading FC is a professional football club that play in the Championship. The club was formed in 1871 and Madejski Stadium has been the home of Reading since 1998. The Royals used to play their home games at Elm Park in the past (1896 - 1998). Reading made it to the FA Cup semi-finals on two occasions (1927, 2015), but they have yet to win the prestigious trophy.
The likes of Robin Friday, Trevor Senior, Steve Death, Shaka Hislop, Phil Parkinson, Alf Messer, Jimmy Quinn, Michael Gilkes, Ronnie Blackman, Pavel Pogrebnyak and Martin Hicks are some of their more notable footballers. Aldershot Town were considered Reading’s fiercest rivals, but the Shots went out of business in 1992.
Seeing that Aldershot rejoined the league in 2008 it remains to be seen if the rivalry is going to be re-established in near future. Swindon Town and Oxford United are considered Reading’s big rivals as well.
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