When : Tuesday 31st October, 8pm
Where : Madejski Stadium, Reading, RG2 0FL
Capacity : 24,161
Well at least this one is likely to save you having to work out for a load of plastic tat for Halloween in order to scare your kids. Just bring them over to the Mad Star for an evening of something chilling. Admittedly it's probably going to be more trick than treat but then kids have it too easy nowadays with all this health and safety cobblers.
Forest have not drawn a league game since they went to Preston 21 games ago. They are also doing rather nicely thank you very much and will be looking to follow up a handy 3-2 win at Hull with another 3 points against a badly out of form Reading.
Reading do hope to have Bacuna available but the usual list of non starters is a big as ever now that Ilori has been added to it. Just hope that Moore doesn't suffer a reaction and leave Reading looking at a possible central defensive partnership of McShane and Berg - but then it will be the festival of Samhain.
Referee
It's Lancashire's Paul Tierney for this one and Reading are still waiting to collect 3 points from a game with him in charge
Previously
08 Mar 16 > Huddersfield Town 3-1 Reading
19 Aug 15 > Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Reading
29 Dec 13 > Middlesbrough 3-0 Reading
11 Dec 10 > Reading 0-0 Coventry City
Historically
Forest have made 19 previous visits to Reading for a league game with all but 4 being at Division 2 level. They have won on 6 of those visits and when Reading lose at home to Forest in the league they fail to score. Reading have managed 8 wins from those visits so, like Middlesbrough really, the record v Forest isn't particularly impressive.
How to follow the game
- Get a ticket and travel to the Mad Stad
- Listen to Radio 5 Live and/or a myriad of other radio stations for score flashes
- Ring/text a mate for updates
- Use an iFollow subscription
- BBC Radio Berkshire (FM : 104.4, 104.1 or 95.4 depending where you are in the area)