| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester United | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10/15 | 11-5 |
| Reading | 15 | L1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5/15 | 5-8 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 5 finished meetings (2012-12-01 – 2019-01-05) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-05 | Manchester United | 2-0 | Reading |
| 2017-01-07 | Manchester United | 4-0 | Reading |
| 2013-03-16 | Manchester United | 1-0 | Reading |
| 2013-02-18 | Manchester United | 2-1 | Reading |
| 2012-12-01 | Reading | 3-4 | Manchester United |
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2023-01-28
The sides have met 5 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Manchester United, 0 draws and 0 for Reading, at 3.4 goals per meeting. This has been a host's fixture — the home side won 80% of the meetings. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more.
The venue was Old Trafford in Manchester, with room for 75,635 spectators. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 4 second-half goals set the final 3-1.
