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Wimbledon face a trip to Reading at Madjeski Stadium on Friday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Dons will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them with only a 20.00% success rate in the fixture.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in September 2002, with Wimbledon inflicting a narrow 0 - 1 defeat upon the Royals in a League Division One match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2003/2004 | Sat 30 Aug | Wimbledon | 0 - 3 | Reading | LD1 |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 01 Mar | Wimbledon | 2 - 0 | Reading | LD1 |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 14 Sep | Reading | 0 - 1 | Wimbledon | LD1 |
| 1981/1982 | Sat 13 Mar | Wimbledon | 0 - 0 | Reading | DIV3 |
| 1981/1982 | Sat 24 Oct | Reading | 2 - 1 | Wimbledon | DIV3 |
| 1979/1980 | Mon 07 Apr | Wimbledon | 1 - 1 | Reading | DIV3 |
| 1979/1980 | Wed 05 Mar | Reading | 3 - 0 | Wimbledon | DIV3 |
Recent respective form guides
Reading are showing reasonable home form, having won four and lost two from the last six played. These low-scoring games have seen just 5 goals scored and conceded.
Wimbledon have an average recent record on the road, winning 2 of the last six, but losing the other 4. While the Dons have hit 6 goals, 15 have hit the back of the wrong net.
Reading's 37 points from 24 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 9th position. Wimbledon find themselves stuck right at the bottom of the division. Their 24 games have yielded only 14 points.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Reading | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
| Wimbledon | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Dons are in poor form away, and the FootyMad team are afraid to say this game can be passed over as a comfortable defeat against Reading. Home win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Reading | Been beaten in each of their previous 2 home matches. Failed to win in previous 2 home matches. Latest 2 games ended in defeat. Not won in the 2 most recent games. |
| Wimbledon | Lost each of the previous 2 away matches. Not won in previous 2 away matches. An overall losing run of 4 games. No win in the 6 most recent games. |