Cambridge United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Colchester United.
- Cambridge United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Cambridge United form and stats
Overall League Two stats at home this season for Cambridge United are 4-3-2 (wins-draw-losses). With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Cambridge to get some points in this home game. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Cambridge United, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
No payout for Cambridge in their previous match, an away game at Forest Green Rovers that ended in defeat 0-2. Before that, Cambridge had a EFL Trophy home game versus Gillingham which ended with a victory 2-0.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Cambridge have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found twelve games) they have won three times, drawn five and lost four.
Cambridge are traveling soon after this match as the League Two match at Bradford City awaits in four days.
Cambridge are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. From these home matches, Cambridge United have conceded only 8 goals. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Colchester United form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Colchester United so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-3 (win-draw-lose).
Colchester has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Port Vale for a League Two game that ended a draw (1-1). Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Scunthorpe United.
Colchester United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.
After this away game Colchester return home for a League Two game against Morecambe. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Colchester find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. In the opposite end, Colchester United have conceded 15 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: four - two - three (Cambridge United wins - draws - Colchester United wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Mullin 13 goals | J. Ironside 7 goals |   J. Brown 7 goals |
Cambridge United missing players
Colchester United missing players
| Cambridge United | Colchester United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 27 | 13 | 7 | Scored | S | 2 | 9 | 25 |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 15 | 23 |
| 94% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 94% |
| 88% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 82% |
| 50% | 56% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 47% |
| 19% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 22% | 24% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 18% |
| 50% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 78% | 76% |
| 31% | 22% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 22% | 24% |
| 25% | 22% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.9 | 9.7 | 8.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 9 | 9.9 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 2.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 47% | 52% | 88% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 38% |
- Cambridge United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Newport County | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 36 |
| 2 | Cheltenham Town | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 33 |
| 3 | Carlisle United | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 32 |
| 4 | Forest Green Rovers | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 32 |
| 5 | Exeter City | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 38 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 30 |
| 6 | Colchester United | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 28 |
| 7 | Leyton Orient | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 27 |
| 8 | Salford City | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 26 |
| 9 | Cambridge United | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 25 |
| 10 | Morecambe | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -7 | 25 |
| 11 | Walsall | 17 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 24 |
| 12 | Tranmere Rovers | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -4 | 24 |
| 13 | Crawley Town | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 23 |
| 14 | Port Vale | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 23 |
| 15 | Oldham Athletic | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 15 | -4 | 23 |
| 16 | Bolton Wanderers | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -5 | 22 |
| 17 | Harrogate Town | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | -4 | 19 |
| 18 | Scunthorpe United | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | -8 | 17 |
| 19 | Mansfield Town | 17 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 8 | -5 | 16 |
| 20 | Grimsby Town | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -13 | 16 |
| 21 | Barrow | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | -6 | 13 |
| 22 | Bradford City | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -8 | 13 |
| 23 | Stevenage | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
| 24 | Southend United | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -22 | 9 |