Sutton United look to The Knights Community Stadium supporters for inspiration before Colchester United match

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: England League Two
Competition: Tue 18.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Knights Community Stadium (7032 seats)

Nothing but a win will please the Sutton United regulars in this The Knights Community Stadium clash with Colchester United, seeing as they have a robust lead on the opposition in the League Two table.

Insights:
  • Sutton United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals (17) in League Two

0-0-1 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Colchester United when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those one match are 1-2 (scored/conceded).

It's no vacation for neither Sutton nor Colchester United as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

D W W W D

Sutton United form and stats

Sutton United have performed here at The Knights Community Stadium this season with 8 wins from 11 League Two matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 3. After failing to beat Walsall here at The Knights Community Stadium, Sutton United has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Sutton United shared the glory with Stevenage in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Stevenage as Bennett's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. 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? Bennett was able to secure the draw 3-3 in the game against Stevenage after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? The goalie Bouzanis was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.22 out of ten. Bouzanis stopped the opponent with five saves.

Before that, Sutton United had a EFL Trophy home game versus Colchester United which ended with a victory 2-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sutton United handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are ten wins, one draw and three defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Sutton as they have a new game in only four days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Northampton Town are visiting.

A decent goal production from Sutton United in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 11 league matches. Sutton United are not conceding a lot of goals here at The Knights Community Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 11 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

L L L L L

Colchester United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Colchester United so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-6 (win-draw-lose). It's looking increasingly bleak for Colchester United who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Bradford City was the last time a defeat was avoided.

Colchester aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 191 league minutes without a goal. Sears was the last player to find the net.

Colchester United might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Barrow proved too strong as Colchester United slumped to a 0-2 defeat in front of their own fans at JobServe Community Stadium. Colchester United goalkeeper Turner could enjoy a terrific day at work vs Barrow, but even with achieving six saves the loss could not be stopped. Goalkeeper Turner got the top player rating of the team with 7.3/10. Turner stopped the opponent with six saves.

Prior to that match, the Colchester United manager Mullins faced defeat when travelling to Forest Green Rovers and losing 0-2.

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 zero wins, seven draws and ten defeats. From a total of 17 matches.

Colchester have another game away in just four nights, a League Two fixture against Salford City. A hard programme for the visiting team!

The attacking power of Colchester United when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 12 league matches away. In the opposite end, Colchester United have conceded 18 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The two combatants have met previously this season: Colchester United - Sutton United 1-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Sutton United two wins, zero draws and Colchester United zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Colchester UnitedF. Sears
F. Sears
8 goals
SuttonD. Ajiboye
D. Ajiboye
6 goals
Sutton UnitedR. Milsom
R. Milsom
5 goals

Sutton United missing players

Colchester United missing players

Sutton United Colchester United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 11 5 Played P 3 12 23
12 8 4 Won W 0 2 5
4 0 0 Drew D 1 4 7
8 3 1 Lost L 2 6 11
38 19 9 Scored S 0 7 17
31 10 3 Conceded C 4 18 32
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 75% 87%
71% 64% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 67% 70%
54% 55% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 42% 35%
33% 18% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 17%
21% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
54% 45% 40% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
38% 45% 60% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 17%
12% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 67% 52%
 
4.7 4.2 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 3.8 4.3
5.9 5.8 7.6 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.2 5.5
1.3 1.5 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.8
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.7 12.7 15 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 11 10.5
4.2 4.2 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 2.7
38% 41% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 27%
 
13 11.4 11.2 Shots against (avg) S A 16.3 14.8 14.4
4.2 4.1 4.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.7 4.7
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Colchester United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Colchester United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals (17) in League Two
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in League Two
  • Colchester United is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Sutton United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sutton United have scored more than double the goals of Colchester United.
  • Sutton United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 24 15 7 2 48 21 12 8 2 2 20 9 12 7 5 0 28 12 27 52
2 Tranmere Rovers 25 13 6 6 27 15 13 10 0 3 19 6 12 3 6 3 8 9 12 45
3 Northampton Town 24 12 5 7 32 24 12 7 2 3 17 9 12 5 3 4 15 15 8 41
4 Swindon Town 24 11 7 6 39 30 11 3 5 3 15 13 13 8 2 3 24 17 9 40
5 Sutton United 24 12 4 8 38 31 11 8 0 3 19 10 13 4 4 5 19 21 7 40
6 Newport County 25 10 8 7 42 34 12 6 3 3 24 13 13 4 5 4 18 21 8 38
7 Mansfield Town 24 11 5 8 32 30 15 9 3 3 25 17 9 2 2 5 7 13 2 38
8 Exeter City 24 9 10 5 35 26 12 6 4 2 19 11 12 3 6 3 16 15 9 37
9 Port Vale 22 10 5 7 36 26 11 5 3 3 17 11 11 5 2 4 19 15 10 35
10 Bradford City 24 7 11 6 31 29 12 4 7 1 19 14 12 3 4 5 12 15 2 32
11 Crawley Town 23 9 5 9 28 32 11 4 3 4 15 17 12 5 2 5 13 15 -4 32
12 Leyton Orient 22 7 10 5 37 21 11 6 3 2 24 7 11 1 7 3 13 14 16 31
13 Salford City 24 8 7 9 28 24 13 5 6 2 15 8 11 3 1 7 13 16 4 31
14 Harrogate Town 23 8 6 9 35 35 11 3 4 4 18 18 12 5 2 5 17 17 0 30
15 Walsall 24 7 8 9 29 32 12 4 5 3 19 17 12 3 3 6 10 15 -3 29
16 Bristol Rovers 22 8 5 9 29 33 12 6 1 5 19 18 10 2 4 4 10 15 -4 29
17 Hartlepool United 24 8 4 12 24 36 12 7 3 2 16 11 12 1 1 10 8 25 -12 28
18 Rochdale 23 6 9 8 30 32 11 3 5 3 14 12 12 3 4 5 16 20 -2 27
19 Barrow 24 6 8 10 25 28 12 3 5 4 14 14 12 3 3 6 11 14 -3 26
20 Carlisle United 24 6 8 10 19 30 12 3 6 3 9 10 12 3 2 7 10 20 -11 26
21 Stevenage 25 5 9 11 22 40 13 4 6 3 16 17 12 1 3 8 6 23 -18 24
22 Colchester United 23 5 7 11 17 32 11 3 3 5 10 14 12 2 4 6 7 18 -15 22
23 Scunthorpe United 25 3 10 12 19 44 11 2 4 5 8 16 14 1 6 7 11 28 -25 19
24 Oldham Athletic 24 4 6 14 22 39 12 2 2 8 16 25 12 2 4 6 6 14 -17 18

Read more about League Two

The English Football League Two (usually referred to as League Two) is the fourth highest division in English football. The League Two league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Four teams are promoted and four relegated.