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Reading First Half Goals
In 149 EFL League One matches, 68.5% of Reading’s first halves produced a goal, 24th of the 35 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 47.7% of them and conceded in 42.3%.
What Reading’s first halves look like
Reading shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 47.7% of matches, one against in 42.3%. Reading come 24th of 35 in the published EFL League One field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Where Reading play barely moves when they score: 46.7% of home matches bring a first-half goal of theirs, 48.6% of away ones. A goal arrives before halftime in 68.5% of Reading’s EFL League One matches. That trails the EFL League One figure of 70.1%, without much in it. A goalless first half remains common all the same, at 31.5%.
Counted in goals rather than matches, Reading put 0.66 past the opposition before the break each game and ship 0.55.
Every figure on this page rests on 149 completed Reading matches over 4 seasons (2023 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Reading first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 68.5% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 33.6% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 12.1% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.21 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 47.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 42.3% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.66 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.55 |
| Matches counted | 149 |
| Seasons covered | 4 (2023 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 65.3% | 32.0% | 46.7% | 38.7% | 1.15 | 75 |
| Away | 71.6% | 35.1% | 48.6% | 45.9% | 1.27 | 74 |
Reading score before halftime 46.7% of the time at home against 48.6% away, a gap of −1.9pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Reading against EFL League One
| Line | Reading | EFL League One | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 68.5% | 70.1% | −1.6pp |
| Over 1.5 | 33.6% | 32.8% | +0.8pp |
| Over 2.5 | 12.1% | 10.5% | +1.6pp |
Counted from 149 matches · 4 seasons · 2023 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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