Another adrenaline-pumping match in Professional Development League as Ipswich Town U21 welcome Reading U21

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Competition: England Professional Development League
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ipswich Town Training Centre (1000 seats)

Glory for the home side, the away team steals it or a score draw? It's all up in the air when the mid-table teams Ipswich Town U21 and Reading U21 duel at Ipswich Town Training Centre.

Insights:
  • Ipswich Town U21 have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Professional Development League
  • Reading U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Professional Development League.

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Ipswich Town U21 form and stats

The complete Professional Development League stats playing at home this season for Ipswich Town U21 are 5-0-0 (wins-draws-losses). Ever since the Wigan Athletic U21 game Ipswich has been unbeatable here at Ipswich Town Training Centre producing five straight wins.

Ipswich Town U21 shared the glory with Queens Park Rangers U21 in their last match, an away game that ended all square 4-4. Opportunity lost for Ipswich Town U21 in the Queens Park Rangers U21 match as a lead 4-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Lazarevic has scored in nine games in a row. Outstanding!

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Bristol City U21 in a game that was won 3-2.

Some stats: A review of the 10 most recent league games highlights that 9 of them had goals from both teams.

Goals are plentiful at Ipswich Town Training Centre in the league this season as Ipswich has scored 13 goals here in 5 home games. Ipswich Town U21 have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Reading U21 form and stats

2-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Reading U21 in their Professional Development League matches away.

Reading U21 failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Swansea City U21 (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 0-3. That loss was their first after three consecutive league matches winning points.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Charlton Athletic U21 with the score of 2-1.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this side's 10 most recent league games have ended with three or more goals.

Reading are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). Reading U21 struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.

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Ipswich Town U21 missing players

Reading U21 missing players

Ipswich Town U21 Reading U21
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 0 6 12
6 5 1 Won W 0 2 6
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 0 3 5
26 13 2 Scored S 0 7 16
19 6 1 Conceded C 0 11 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
90% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 83%
90% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 83% 67%
70% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 17%
40% 40% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
90% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 50%
10% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 33%
 
5.6 5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6.6 6.8
5.6 5.2 9 Corners against (avg) C A 0 7.2 4.9
1.7 1.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.6 15 14 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.6 11.3
7.4 8.6 11 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 4.1
35% 30% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 34%
 
8.7 7.2 10 Shots against (avg) S A 0 9.2 7.8
3.8 3.4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.8 4.2
Key stats in Professional Development League this season:
  • All of Reading U21's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Ipswich Town U21 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Ipswich Town U21 have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Ipswich Town U21 have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Professional Development League
  • Ipswich Town U21 have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Ipswich Town U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Reading U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Reading U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Reading 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 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 Cardiff City U21 11 7 0 4 22 24 6 4 0 2 16 13 5 3 0 2 6 11 -2 21
4 Swansea City U21 12 6 2 4 29 17 5 5 0 0 16 3 7 1 2 4 13 14 12 20
5 Ipswich Town U21 10 6 2 2 26 19 5 5 0 0 13 6 5 1 2 2 13 13 7 20
6 Reading U21 12 6 1 5 16 17 6 4 0 2 9 6 6 2 1 3 7 11 -1 19
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