No Championship team has conceded fewer goals in their last eight games than Preston and a visit from a Reading side without a win in 11 league games is unlikely to alter that. Ryan Lowe has done more than just stopped the rot since taking over at Deepdale on December with his team showing playoff form over the last two months to move up from 19th to 11th in the table.

North End still don’t score enough goals to truly convince as a fringe promotion contender, but they have become hard to beat and very hard to score against.

Reading fans will look at Preston’s situation and wonder what could have been had they sacked Veljko Paunovic earlier this winter. The Royals have lost eight and drawn three of their last 11 Championship games to sink to 21st position and could enter the drop zone if results go against them this weekend.

Both teams not to score looks a valid play
PNE should win this contest and backers are unlikely to be dissuaded by the odds on quite given the Royals’ shocking run of form. But it’s worth noting that Preston have not been as convincing at Deepdale as they have been when on the road of late.

The Lilywhites have not won any of the four home matches since Lowe’s debut game – a 2-1 win over strugglers Barnsley – and they needed 89th and 90th minute equalisers to take a point from each of the visits from Sheffield United and Bristol City.

Those home results have us leaning towards another bet here – both teams not to score. Both teams have not scored in six of the last seven Preston league games and three of the last five Reading away Championship matches.



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没有一支冠军球队在最近8场比赛中比普雷斯顿丢的球更少，而雷丁在11场联赛中都没有赢球的造访也不太可能改变这一点。自从去年12月接管迪普戴尔以来，莱恩·洛所做的不仅仅是阻止球队的颓势，他的球队在过去的两个月里呈现出季后赛的状态，从积分榜的第19名上升到第11名。

北端仍然没有打进足够的进球，不足以让人信服他们是一个边缘晋级的竞争者，但他们已经变得很难被击败，很难被击败。

雷丁的球迷将会关注普雷斯顿的情况，并想知道如果他们在冬天早些时候解雇了保罗维奇会发生什么。皇家队在过去的11场英冠比赛中输掉了8场比赛，和局了3场，目前已经跌至第21位。如果本周末的比赛结果对他们不利，他们可能会进入降级区。

两个队都没有得分看起来是一种有效的比赛
PNE应该会赢得这场比赛，支持者们不太可能被这个概率吓倒，因为皇家队令人震惊的表现。但值得注意的是，普雷斯顿在Deepdale的表现并不像他们最近在路上表现的那样令人信服。

自从劳的处子秀——2-1战胜了苦苦拼搏的巴恩斯利——之后，利里怀特人还没有赢得过四场主场比赛中的任何一场，他们需要在89分钟和90分钟扳平谢菲尔德联队和布里斯托尔城的比赛中各得一分。

那些主场的结果让我们倾向于另一个赌注——两支球队都不会进球。两支球队在普雷斯顿联赛的最近7场比赛中有6场没有进球，在雷丁冠军杯的最近5场比赛中有3场没有进球。