Professional Development League: Top level vs modest, at least that's what the standings say. Bristol City U21 - Watford U21. Home win or a shock result?
- Bristol City U21 have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (5) in Professional Development League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Bristol City U21 form and stats
5-1-0 is the performance here so far in the Professional Development League, giving Bristol City U21 a total of 16 from their 6 games here. Outstanding results! Ever since the Birmingham City U21 game Bristol has been unbeatable here producing four straight wins.
Bristol City U21's last game was hosting Charlton Athletic U21 (placed 7th) and winning 2-0. Fiksdal has scored in five games in a row. Outstanding!
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Ipswich Town U21 (2-3).Bristol are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here in their league games, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 matches. From these home matches, Bristol City U21 have conceded only 5 goals.
Watford U21 form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Watford U21 so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 1-0-6 (win-draw-lose).
Grieves was the last player to score for the away team. Watford U21 haven't scored a league goal in the last 185 minutes.
Watford might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Colchester United U21 proved too strong as Watford U21 slumped to a 0-6 defeat in front of their own fans. Watford U21 lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-6 beating and focus on this one.
Prior to that match, the Watford U21 manager Riza faced defeat when travelling to Swansea City U21 and losing 0-4.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Watford played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.
Take note: 9 of the last 11 league matches featuring this team have ended with only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting terms).
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Watford U21 as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. Watford U21 are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 4 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
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| Bristol City U21 | Watford U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 27 | 16 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 20 | 33 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 69% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 71% | 73% |
| 46% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 57% | 55% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 57% | 55% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 43% | 45% |
| 46% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 14% | 18% |
| 54% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 86% | 82% |
| 5 | 5.8 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 3.3 | 2.8 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 6.2 | 6.9 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.8 | 10.7 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 5.5 | 6.4 |
| 4.9 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
| 41% | 53% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 27% | 17% |
| 6.4 | 5.5 | 3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 14.5 | 14.9 |
| 2.4 | 2 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 6.5 | 7.3 |
- Bristol City U21 have not yet lost a game at home.
- Bristol City U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Bristol City U21 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Bristol City U21 have scored more than double the goals of Watford U21.
- Bristol City U21 have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have the most clean sheets (7) in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have the most matches under the total-line (7) in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have the most points (16) at home in Professional Development League
- Bristol City U21 have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Watford U21 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Watford U21 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Watford U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Watford U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Watford U21 have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest points (3) away in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (5) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the most conceded goals (20) away in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the most conceded goals (33) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the the worst goal difference (-16) away in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the the worst goal difference (-28) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Watford U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Watford U21 is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bristol City U21 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Millwall U21 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 22 | 28 |
| 3 | Reading U21 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 22 |
| 4 | Cardiff City U21 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -2 | 21 |
| 5 | Swansea City U21 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 20 |
| 6 | Ipswich Town U21 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 26 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 20 |
| 7 | Charlton Athletic U21 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| 8 | Colchester United U21 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 18 | -4 | 14 |
| 9 | Queens Park Rangers U21 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 13 |
| 10 | Watford U21 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 20 | -28 | 3 |
