EFL pundit offers his prediction for Reading FC's Championship clash with Cardiff City

Reading FC will still be waiting for their first points of the season after taking on Cardiff City tomorrow (Saturday), according to Sky Sports pundit David Prutton.

Royals welcome Steve Morison's Bluebirds to the Select Car Leasing Stadium tomorrow afternoon (Saturday) as Paul Ince's side look to try and bounce back from a 1-0 defeat at Blackpool last Saturday on the opening weekend of the new season in the EFL.

Reading had key men Lucas Joao, Sam Hutchinson, and Scott Dann missing from the game at Bloomfield Road and all three will be sidelined once again for the Bluebirds clash, although both Hutchinson and Dann are back on the training ground. But that is not all, with Ince potentially without as many as seven players for the visit of Cardiff.

And Prutton feels that the wait for Reading to register their first point will go on another week at least, with the former Southampton and Leeds United midfielder predicting a 2-0 win for Cardiff in his weekly predictions feature for the Sky Sports website.

Last week, Prutton got it wrong with his prediction for Reading's match against Blackpool at Bloomfield Road, with the EFL pundit forecasting a share of the spoils with a 1-1 draw. However, Callum Connolly's ninth minute strike proved to be the difference between the two sides.

Reading fans will be hoping that the Sky Sports pundit will be wrong again this weekend too, with Royals looking to claim their first points of the new campaign.