Match facts
- Cardiff are winless in six league games against Reading (D3 L3) since a 2-0 win in November 2015.
- Reading have kept a clean sheet in their past two away league trips to Cardiff, winning 1-0 in August 2016 and drawing 0-0 in May 2018.
- Since Neil Harris' first league match in charge in November, no Championship side has lost fewer games than Cardiff (two).
- Reading are winless in four games in all competitions (D2 L2), having won five of their previous seven matches.
- Two of the five Championship goals scored via a throw-in this season have been scored by Cardiff City, including Callum Paterson's goal against West Brom in their last game.
- Reading have won just one of their past 14 league games in Wales (W1 D7 L6), a 1-0 victory at Cardiff in August 2016 under Jaap Stam.