Huddersfield v Reading Championship Play Off Final Predictions & Betting Odds – 29th May 2017

Play Off Final to go beyond 90 minutes

Championship Betting

Huddersfield v Reading Betting Preview – Championship Play Off Final 29th May 3.00pm

Championship play-off finals are usually pretty tight and this one will probably not be an exception. The winner gets a lucrative place in the Premier League next season and this game is reportedly worth around £200m and therefore no-one is going to want to screw this up. Neither the Terriers nor the Royals were particularly fancied to get through to the final from their respective semi-final ties and this will most likely be a really tight fight with them having traded 1-0 home wins during the regular season. Will it go all the way to a shootout?

Ladbrokes are running a money back special for Huddersfield v Reading Championship Play Off Final Betting. If the Huddersfield v Reading match on Monday 29th May results in a draw after 90 minutes, Ladbrokes will refund losing bets on that match up to £25 per market, as Free Bets. Offer applies to bets placed for Huddersfield v Reading on the following markets before kick-off: First Goalscorer, Half Time/Full Time & Correct Score.

Huddersfield v Reading Betting Tips

There were 1-0 home wins recorded by both of these in the Championship meetings this season, so nothing to split them from that. In the Ladbrokes correct score market, you have a price of 11/1 on a Huddersfield 1-0 and 15/2 on a Reading 1-0. The Terriers had a long and tense battle against Sheffield Wednesday in their play-off semi finals and edged through a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 aggregate draw. They had been underdogs for that tie with the Owls running in powerful form. Huddersfield have won just one of their last six games now and they finished the Championship season with a goal difference of -2. Things have been pretty tight between these two and Huddersfield hold a W2 D2 L1 record in their last five against the Royals.

Under 2.5 goals at Ladbrokes is a price of 4/7 but it may be worth pushing out to under 1.5 goals for a quote of 7/4. Neither are overly strong in front of goal and given the occasion, attacks are going to be pretty measured. Both are stronger in the defensive organisational side of things, so expect yet another tight Championship Play Off Final. In just three of the last 16 Championship Play Off Finals have we seen both teams score in the match. Both teams not to score at Ladbrokes is a decent 4/5 punt because of that. It is worth backing an extra time winner in the method of victory market, because only twice in the last 30 Championship play-off finals, has there been a penalty shoot out and there has not been one in 15 years. Huddersfield are 8/11 favourites to lift the trophy, with Reading at 11/10.

The Royals were underdogs for their semi-final clash as they were taking on the in-form Fulham who were on a great stretch of form and scoring freely. Reading shut them down though through defensive might. Reading finished four points above Huddersfield in the regular table and did score twelve more goals than the Terries did, but then they had a worse defence by six goals to them so it pretty much balances out. Of the two sides heading to Wembley on Monday, Reading are carrying the better current form overall with a W4 D1 L1 record in their last six games played. In the anytime goalscorer market at Ladbrokes, Huddersfield have Nahki Wells and Elias Kachunga as 15/8 joint-favourite with good support from Collin Quaner at 11/5. The shortest priced option for Reading in the market is Yann Kermorgant at 11/4. It’s hard to split these on paper, it may be that way on the Wembley turf too.

Huddersfield v Reading Betting Odds

Huddersfield 7/5, Draw 11/5, Reading 12/5

Huddersfield v Reading Predictions

Draw: It is one of those games where the stakes are just so high that it can suck the life out of the game. Teams are going to err on the side of caution probably and it’s just too difficult to pick a winner out of these two evenly matched sides. Look for the draw.