This has the looks of yet another absorbing skirmish at Lancashire FA County Ground in the Professional Development League. Burnley U21 is in 7th place and welcome Crewe Alexandra U21 in 19th spot. Read about the match here!
- Burnley U21 have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Professional Development League
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have the fewest scored goals (11) in Professional Development League
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Burnley U21 form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Professional Development League this season. Burnley U21 have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at Lancashire FA County Ground. Burnley U21 has recorded two wins in a row here at Lancashire FA County Ground, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The Burnley U21 goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 186 minutes without conceding a goal in the Professional Development League.
The home fans witnessed a 3-3 draw versus Swansea City U21 in the Premier League Cup last time out and are hoping for a win here.
Previous to that game, a Professional Development League home match hosting Sheffield Wednesday U21 in a game that was won 3-0.Scoring bonanza? We don't know what will happen in this one, but we do know that 11 of the 13 latest league games with this team has seen three goals or more.
Burnley have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Lancashire FA County Ground with 12 goals in 7 league matches. As for conceded goals, Burnley U21's unpleasant statistic is 20 goals surrendered.
Crewe Alexandra U21 form and stats
Playing away, Crewe Alexandra U21, who have the fewest scored goals (11) in Professional Development League, have won 2 games, drawn 0 and suffered 2 defeats in the Professional Development League this season.
Crewe Alexandra U21 won their last game, 3-1 versus Barnsley U21 played at home. That win felt nice as this club had gone three league fixtures without winning.
Prior to that match, the Crewe Alexandra U21 manager faced defeat when travelling to Sheffield United U21 and losing 0-3.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Alexandra manager as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Sheffield Wednesday U21.
For Crewe Alexandra U21, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
The participants have faced each other already this season, with the match result Crewe Alexandra U21 - Burnley U21 0-0 logged in the official records.
Burnley U21 missing players
Crewe Alexandra U21 missing players
| Burnley U21 | Crewe Alexandra U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 27 | 15 | 8 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 14 |
| 29 | 20 | 8 | Conceded | C | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 53% | 62% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 33% | 38% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 8% |
| 53% | 50% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 42% |
| 27% | 25% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 27% | 25% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 58% |
| 5.5 | 5 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5.3 |
| 3.4 | 3.6 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 9 | 6.9 |
| 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.9 | 11.3 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5.8 | 7 |
| 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 46% | 39% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 80% | 36% |
| 8.2 | 8.7 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 12.2 | 9.6 |
| 4.5 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 4.2 |
- All of Burnley U21's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Crewe Alexandra U21's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Burnley U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Burnley U21 have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Professional Development League
- Burnley U21 have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Professional Development League
- Burnley U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Professional Development League
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have the fewest matches over the total-line (6) in Professional Development League
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have the fewest scored goals (11) in Professional Development League
- Crewe Alexandra U21 have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Professional Development League
- Crewe Alexandra U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 3 | Sheffield United U21 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 29 |
| 7 | Burnley U21 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | -5 | 20 |
| 8 | Wigan Athletic U21 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | -1 | 20 |
| 11 | Hull City U21 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| 12 | Peterborough United U21 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -3 | 16 |
| 13 | Birmingham City U21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 15 | Coventry City U21 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 17 | Sheffield Wednesday U21 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 35 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -21 | 12 |
| 18 | Barnsley U21 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 12 |
| 19 | Crewe Alexandra U21 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
