Cardiff City U21 duels with Charlton Athletic U21 in Professional Development League face-off

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Competition: England Professional Development League
Competition: Tue 28.February
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cardiff International Sports Stadium (1875 seats)

This league campaign has been a rollercoaster for these teams so far, boom and bust leading to mid-table places so far. Get ready for Cardiff City U21 - Charlton Athletic U21!

Insights:
  • Cardiff City U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Charlton Athletic U21 have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Professional Development League

This could be an engrossing match with lots of spark and excitement as both squads are well refreshed since they last played a game. Game on!

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Cardiff City U21 form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Cardiff International Sports Stadium as Cardiff City U21 have scored 21 goals to get 18 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Professional Development League are 6-0-3 (wins-draws-losses).

A nice win for Cardiff last time playing, versus Millwall U21. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-2. Finally, a league win after four matches without. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Preceding that game was the away draw at Swansea City U21 that finished 2-2.

Scoring bonanza? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 16 of the 19 most recent league games with this team has had three goals or more.

Goals decide football matches and Cardiff City U21 are scoring many of them at home; 21 on target from 9 league matches.

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Charlton Athletic U21 form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Professional Development League.

Charlton Athletic U21 won their last game, 6-1 versus Watford U21 played at home. That win felt good as this side had gone four league fixtures without victory. As mentioned above, Charlton was the only team on the pitch versus Watford U21 in their previous game, winning 6-1. This could be a tougher task.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Colchester United U21 that ended 2-2.

Take note that 9 of this club's 11 most recent league rounds have ended with three or more goals.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Professional Development League trip to Ipswich Town U21.

The travelling fans enjoy Charlton Athletic U21's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 9 league matches away. Charlton Athletic U21's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 17 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Charlton Athletic U21 - Cardiff 2-1 was the score in these squads' last H2H fixture, earlier this season. One of the profiles has been Kanu with 2 goals scored against Cardiff City U21 in these 1 games.

Cardiff City U21 missing players

Charlton Athletic U21 missing players

Cardiff City U21 Charlton Athletic U21
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 1 9 19
10 6 1 Won W 0 3 7
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 5
8 3 0 Lost L 1 5 7
33 21 4 Scored S 2 15 41
39 18 3 Conceded C 3 17 37
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
84% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 79%
42% 44% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 56% 58%
32% 44% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 37%
58% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 44% 74%
21% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 11%
21% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 16%
 
4.7 3.6 1 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.8 6
5.3 5.1 5 Corners against (avg) C A 8 5.2 5.2
1.1 0.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.8 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
8.3 8.6 9 Shots (avg) S ( 7 10 10.8
3.6 4.4 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.6 4.7
48% 54% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 32% 41%
 
12.2 12.8 16 Shots against (avg) S A 16 11 11.7
5.2 4.6 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9 5.4 4.8
Key stats in Professional Development League this season:
  • All of Charlton Athletic U21's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cardiff City U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cardiff City U21 have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Cardiff City U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Charlton Athletic U21 have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Professional Development League
  • Charlton Athletic U21 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Charlton Athletic U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Millwall U21 20 12 5 3 52 27 10 6 4 0 31 11 10 6 1 3 21 16 25 41
2 Bristol City U21 18 12 2 4 34 15 9 6 1 2 22 8 9 6 1 2 12 7 19 38
3 Reading U21 17 10 1 6 29 21 8 6 0 2 13 6 9 4 1 4 16 15 8 31
4 Cardiff City U21 19 10 1 8 33 39 9 6 0 3 21 18 10 4 1 5 12 21 -6 31
5 Swansea City U21 17 8 4 5 41 25 8 6 1 1 24 8 9 2 3 4 17 17 16 28
6 Charlton Athletic U21 19 7 5 7 41 37 10 4 4 2 26 20 9 3 1 5 15 17 4 26
7 Ipswich Town U21 16 7 3 6 35 36 9 6 0 3 19 19 7 1 3 3 16 17 -1 24
8 Colchester United U21 16 6 3 7 29 34 6 3 2 1 12 7 10 3 1 6 17 27 -5 21
9 Queens Park Rangers U21 16 5 5 6 33 32 7 2 1 4 12 14 9 3 4 2 21 18 1 20
10 Watford U21 17 2 1 14 13 50 6 0 0 6 4 18 11 2 1 8 9 32 -37 7