Reading Travel To Winless Brentford

By Hob Nob Anyone?

Reading travel the short distance to Brentford this weekend hoping to improve on recent results. Both Reading and Brentford have suffered slow starts to the season, with Brentford still without a league win after seven games. The Bees are favourites with That's a Goal's accumulator tips to be relegated and are one off the bottom of the table with their only points of the campaign coming from three draws. Brentford fans will see this as a great opportunity for their first full three points, playing against a 17th placed Reading side who have only picked up two wins themselves in the league.

Despite securing up some impressive signings before the transfer window closed, the Royals were unable to find the net last Saturday and slumped to a 0-1 home defeat against Bristol City. It was a frustrating afternoon for Reading who did most things right but failed to convert their chances. The game saw new signings Aluko and Edwards both involved, and they will both be hoping to build on their debuts. Aluko played the full 90 minutes, but Dave Edwards came off the bench to replace Liam Kelly and will be hoping to claim a starting place.

Bodvarsson, back from injury, started the fixture but was guilty of wasting our best chances. Manager Jaap Stam may well vary things up front for the trip to Brentford but will still be missing Kermorgant who finished last season so strongly and is seriously missed this term. Reading will almost certainly need more than one goal if they are to collect three points from this fixutre - which is a huge ask. Our last clean sheet at Griffin Park was 23 games ago.

Last season we were on the wrong end of a 1-4 scoreline, with Kermorgant scoring our only goal from the penalty spot. However, the season before that, back in the summer of 2015 we were 3-1 winners with two goals from Blackman and one from Sa. A similar result feels hard to imagine right now even against a Brentford side that is well off the form they were expecting this season. The Bees should be desperate for the win, so it could be another frustrating afternoon for the travelling Reading fans.

Recent Meetings With Brentford

DATE	COMPETITION	OPPOSITION	SCORE	REPORT
14 February 2017	Championship	Brentford (HOME)	W: 3-2	Read report...
27 September 2016	Championship	Brentford (Away)	L: 1-4	Read report...
28 December 2015	Championship	Brentford (HOME)	L: 1-2	Read report...
29 August 2015	Championship	Brentford (Away)	W: 3-1	Read report...
25 April 2015	Championship	Brentford (HOME)	L: 0-2	Read report...
04 October 2014	Championship	Brentford (Away)	L: 1-3	Read report...

From the Discussion

SU Sutekh 13 Sep 2017 · 9:56am

http://soccerlogo.net/uploads/posts/2015-02/1424202784_fc-brentford.png http://www.qpritalia.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Reading_fc_logo1.jpg When : Saturday 16th September, 3pm Where : Griffin Park, London, TW8 0NT Capacity : 12,763 Away Stand : Brook Road Stand What might I see in the area : Brentford Nylons http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cgThUbfeRjY/UOmyLM7ITZI/AAAAAAAABE4/naNZlt2loWE/s1600/Griffin+Park.jpg Well after the luckless affair last Saturday Reading get a chance to redeem themselves at a venue where, when they're bad, they're usually very bad. Brentford have had a surprisingly poor start to their season that has seen…
HO Hound 13 Sep 2017 · 10:01am

don't have a good feeling about this one Brentford seem to have dominated every game they've played. Think they lost a game at Ipswich 2-0 when they had something like 30 shots on goal to Ipswich's 4 They are either terrible up front, or something is about to click for them.
CL Caskeys Lovechild 13 Sep 2017 · 10:31am

Suspect this is a mauling waiting to happen.... Yay! :shock:
WI windermereROYAL 13 Sep 2017 · 11:13am

Saw the highlights of their game at Villa park, desperately unlucky not to win, last night too looks like they were unfortunate. think we will need our A game to get anything there.
HO Hound 13 Sep 2017 · 11:29am

i'm guessing they are similar to last season but without the cutting edge of Vibe/Jota Always likely to concede silly goals is the one thing I'm hoping for
SF Silver Fox 13 Sep 2017 · 11:42am

If they're dominating but failing to strike the killer blow surely we'll cancel each other out?
HO Hound 15 Sep 2017 · 11:00am

genuinely intrigued as to what side he'll pick with Obita and Swift back fit. Also Edwards been with us a couple of weeks now First real time Stam will be having to leave fit capable players out of the squad altogether. Be interesting. Can't decide whether I think this will be another away day thrashing against a side surely in a false position, or whether we are due our usual bounce-back-from-cr@p-defeat-victory
WI windermereROYAL 15 Sep 2017 · 11:15am

Brentford have won 5 of the last 7 league games played between the sides (W5, D1, L1). Didn`t we win 3-1 at Griffin park a couple of years ago. and 3-2 at home last season?

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