It's the EFL Trophy: Exeter City and Chelsea U21 face off

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Competition: England EFL Trophy
Competition: Tue 24.August
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. James' Park (8830 seats)

National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Exeter City or Chelsea U21 that keep their silverware dream alive.

Not much time to rest for the hosts, as they were involved in a League Two match only three days back. This match was also played here at St. James' Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Chelsea U21 have had more rest.

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Exeter City form and stats

Last season, Exeter's EFL Trophy journey ended in the 2nd round.

Only two League Two home games for Exeter City so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

A nice win for Exeter last time playing, versus Bristol Rovers. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-1 with Matt Jay (2), Timothée Dieng and Harry Kite scoring for the victors. The attacker Matt Jay was "man of the match" for Exeter with a rating of 8.44/10. Jay scored two goals, hit one key pass and had 25 successful passes (of 30 total). Cameron Dawson loved the game against Bristol Rovers. With a stunning eight saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 4-1 victory.

Before that, Exeter City played out a League Two draw 0-0 when visiting Barrow.

This is expected to be a close game, with Exeter City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Exeter as a small favourite), we find nine games. Exeter City has won three of these, drawn three and lost three.

The manager M. Taylor will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Harrogate Town in only four days.

Exeter City has scored 4 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Chelsea U21 form and stats

Last season their EFL Trophy adventure ended in the group stage.

As the visiting team in Premier League U21 matches, Chelsea U21 have produced an overall stat of 5-4-2 so far.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Chelsea U21, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 3-4 versus Bristol Rovers. As you can tell from the result, the match against Bristol Rovers was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today?

Ahead of that match was the EFL Trophy away draw versus Walsall (after extra-time, 3-5 on penalties) that ended 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Chelsea U21 in our archives, and the results are: one win for Chelsea, zero draws and two defeats.

Chelsea have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 16 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Chelsea have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

ExeterM. Jay
M. Jay
2 goals

Exeter City missing players

Chelsea U21 missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Exeter City Chelsea U21
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 11   Played P   20 25
8 3   Won W   9 11
9 6   Drew D   4 5
8 2   Lost L   7 9
29 9   Scored S   38 44
27 10   Conceded C   29 34
72% 55%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 96%
56% 45%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   90% 84%
48% 27%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   70% 68%
28% 27%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   45% 40%
20% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   20% 16%
40% 27%   BTTS BTTS   60% 56%
40% 55%   Clean Sheets C S   25% 28%
48% 64%   Failed to Score F T   15% 20%
 
4.6 5   Corners for (avg) C F   4 4.1
5.2 6.5   Corners against (avg) C A   6.2 6.1
1.3 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   0.8 0.9
1 0   Red cards R C   0 0
 
9.5 9.4   Shots (avg) S (   10.1 10.1
3.5 3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5 5.1
30% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   40% 40%

  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 Rovers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Chelsea U21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cheltenham Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Exeter City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Forest Green Rovers 4 4 0 0 13 6 2 2 0 0 8 4 2 2 0 0 5 2 7 12
2 Bradford City 4 3 1 0 9 4 2 2 0 0 6 2 2 1 1 0 3 2 5 10
3 Swindon Town 4 2 1 1 5 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 7
4 Mansfield Town 4 2 1 1 7 6 3 2 0 1 6 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7
5 Stevenage 4 2 1 1 5 5 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 3 4 0 7
6 Harrogate Town 2 2 0 0 5 3 2 2 0 0 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
7 Hartlepool United 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 2 6
8 Carlisle United 4 1 3 0 3 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 6
9 Newport County 3 2 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 3 2 1 6
10 Northampton Town 3 2 0 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 6
11 Leyton Orient 3 1 2 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 3 5
12 Exeter City 4 1 2 1 4 4 2 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 1 1 0 3 0 5
13 Colchester United 4 1 2 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 5
14 Tranmere Rovers 4 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
15 Rochdale 4 1 1 2 6 6 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 5 4 0 4
16 Barrow 4 1 1 2 4 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 -1 4
17 Port Vale 4 0 3 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 3
18 Scunthorpe United 4 0 3 1 3 5 2 0 1 1 2 4 2 0 2 0 1 1 -2 3
19 Crawley Town 3 1 0 2 5 8 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 7 -3 3
20 Bristol Rovers 4 1 0 3 3 8 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 2 6 -5 3
21 Sutton United 3 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 3 -1 2
22 Salford City 4 0 2 2 2 4 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 2
23 Walsall 4 0 1 3 2 7 2 0 1 1 2 4 2 0 0 2 0 3 -5 1
24 Oldham Athletic 4 0 0 4 2 6 2 0 0 2 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 3 -4 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester United U21 22 15 3 4 44 19 11 10 1 0 31 6 11 5 2 4 13 13 25 48
2 Sunderland U21 22 13 4 5 38 20 11 7 2 2 18 10 11 6 2 3 20 10 18 43
3 Everton U21 22 10 7 5 35 27 11 6 4 1 21 12 11 4 3 4 14 15 8 37
4 Manchester City U21 22 10 4 8 35 26 11 6 2 3 20 12 11 4 2 5 15 14 9 34
5 Chelsea U21 22 9 6 7 34 30 11 4 2 5 18 16 11 5 4 2 16 14 4 33
6 Southampton U21 22 8 6 8 39 40 11 3 5 3 14 15 11 5 1 5 25 25 -1 30
7 Liverpool U21 22 8 4 10 26 37 11 5 1 5 12 18 11 3 3 5 14 19 -11 28
8 Tottenham U21 22 7 6 9 44 43 11 3 2 6 26 27 11 4 4 3 18 16 1 27
9 Reading U21 22 7 6 9 34 40 11 5 2 4 16 20 11 2 4 5 18 20 -6 27
10 Leicester U21 22 6 3 13 25 48 11 4 3 4 12 17 11 2 0 9 13 31 -23 21
11 Middlesbrough U21 22 5 5 12 33 37 11 3 2 6 16 17 11 2 3 6 17 20 -4 20
12 Norwich City U21 22 5 4 13 30 50 11 3 3 5 21 22 11 2 1 8 9 28 -20 19

Table
  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 Rovers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Chelsea U21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cheltenham Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Exeter City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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