Leicester Vs Reading
Saturdays sees the first home game (Championship) of the new 2011/2012 season. Much hope and expectation is resting on the Foxes this year.
The first Championship team to grace the newly laid pitch at the King Power Stadium will be Mr Brian James McDermott’s Reading.
Leicester and Reading have met on seventeen different occasions, with the first being back on Saturday 28th January 1928. Leicester walk away the victorious team on that day with a 1-0 away win. It would take Reading an incredible 76 years to claim their first victory against Leicester. This occurred on Saturday 11th December 2004, Leicester was the hoists on this occasion, but goals from Steven Sidwell and Ivar Ingimarsson ensured a 2-0 defeat of Leicester.
Fast forward to the 2010/2011 season and for the first time ever Reading managed to complete the double over Leicester. Firstly at the Walkers on 28th August 2010 when Reading walked away with a winning 2-1 score line. Ironically it was a certain Matthew Mills who scored the winning goal in the 86th minute. The return leg witnessed a miserable 3-1 loss to Leicester at the Madejski Stadium.
Head to head in the league the teams are pretty evenly balanced with both teams claiming five victories each, and four draws. Over the seventeen meetings (all competitions) the teams have managed to amass a total of 41 goals (Avg. 2.4 Goals a game) 23 of those goals belong to Leicester while Reading has a total of 18. Goals are pretty much guaranteed between these teams, only once in their history has there been a goalless draw (26th February 2005).
Martyn Waghorn is the top Leicester scorer against Reading with two goals to his name. Both his goals against Reading came in the 2009/2010 campaign. Leicester were 1-0 winners at the Madejski Stadium and then lost 2-1 at home that season.
So far the Foxes have had a great start to the season with a 1-0 victory over local rivals Coventry and a 4-1 Carling Cup win over Rotherham.
Reading only managed a 2-2 draw with Millwall on the opening day and their cup game was cancelled due to safety concerns.
As the last two matches for Leicester have shown the record books and stats are to be rewritten this year. It took 8 years for us to win at Coventry and we had previously never beaten Rotherham in a cup game. This time around we hope to amend the fact that we have not managed to beat Reading since 2002 when we host the first encounter between these teams.
I for one will be there Saturday to cheer my team on, and to watch what hopefully will become the creation of the King Power Fortress.
@Rich_Tullis
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