Sutton United favourites for feisty fight facing Colchester United

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Wed 29.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Knights Community Stadium (7032 seats)

Sutton United are enjoying their stay in the top league places while Colchester United are more worried about avoiding relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?

Insights:
  • Sutton United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in League Two

Both participants have had enough rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's wish for an energetic match!

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Sutton United form and stats

Sutton United are steadily winning League Two games and points here at The Knights Community Stadium. 7 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats is the summary from 10 games. It’s been three wins in a row for Sutton United here at The Knights Community Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Sutton's last game was hosting Harrogate Town (placed 11th) and winning 1-0. Goalkeeper Bouzanis got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.64 out of ten. Bouzanis stopped the opponent with three saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

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

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Sutton's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played seven games, won three matches, drawn three and lost one.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Sutton, as the League Two home game vs Exeter City is only three days away.

Sutton United have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Knights Community Stadium with 17 goals in 10 league matches. Sutton 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 9 from 10 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Colchester United form and stats

Colchester United have only collected 10 points from their away games in the League Two, after 2-4-4 (10 played).

Colchester have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 192 minutes ago. Sears was the goal scorer.

Colchester lost away at Walsall (0-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Defender Smith was the best team player with a rating of 6.83. Smith hit one key pass and won 11 of 15 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Bradford City that ended 0-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Colchester when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing one and winning zero games.

The schedule is very tough for Colchester now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A League Two game at Crawley Town is waiting in only three days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Colchester United as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 13 goals have been conceded by Colchester in these games.

Head 2 Head

The squads have played each other already this season, with the result Colchester United - Sutton 1-3 written in the official records.

Top Goalscorers

Colchester UnitedF. Sears
F. Sears
7 goals
SuttonD. Ajiboye
D. Ajiboye
6 goals
Sutton UnitedA. Smith
A. Smith
4 goals

Sutton United missing players

Colchester United missing players

Sutton United Colchester United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 10 4 Played P 3 10 20
11 7 3 Won W 0 2 5
3 0 0 Drew D 1 4 7
8 3 1 Lost L 2 4 8
33 17 8 Scored S 0 6 16
27 9 3 Conceded C 5 13 25
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 70% 85%
68% 60% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 60% 65%
50% 50% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 40% 35%
32% 20% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 15%
18% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 5%
50% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 30% 45%
41% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 20%
14% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 70% 50%
 
4.8 4.1 4 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 3.6 4.2
6.3 6.3 8.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.3 5.5
1.4 1.6 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.8 12.8 14.2 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 10.7 10.3
4.2 4.2 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.2 2.5
36% 40% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 31%
 
13 11.7 13 Shots against (avg) S A 17.3 14.9 14.3
4.1 4.4 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 4.7 4.5
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 in the second half (6) in League Two
  • 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 20 13 5 2 43 20 9 6 1 2 16 9 11 7 4 0 27 11 23 44
2 Northampton Town 21 12 4 5 29 17 10 7 1 2 16 7 11 5 3 3 13 10 12 40
3 Tranmere Rovers 22 11 5 6 20 14 11 8 0 3 13 6 11 3 5 3 7 8 6 38
4 Sutton United 22 11 3 8 33 27 10 7 0 3 17 9 12 4 3 5 16 18 6 36
5 Port Vale 21 10 5 6 35 23 10 5 3 2 16 8 11 5 2 4 19 15 12 35
6 Newport County 22 9 7 6 35 29 10 5 3 2 20 11 12 4 4 4 15 18 6 34
7 Exeter City 21 8 9 4 32 24 11 5 4 2 17 11 10 3 5 2 15 13 8 33
8 Swindon Town 20 9 6 5 29 24 9 2 4 3 10 11 11 7 2 2 19 13 5 33
9 Mansfield Town 22 9 5 8 27 28 13 7 3 3 20 15 9 2 2 5 7 13 -1 32
10 Leyton Orient 22 7 10 5 37 21 11 6 3 2 24 7 11 1 7 3 13 14 16 31
11 Harrogate Town 22 8 6 8 35 31 11 3 4 4 18 18 11 5 2 4 17 13 4 30
12 Walsall 21 7 7 7 25 24 11 4 4 3 16 14 10 3 3 4 9 10 1 28
13 Salford City 21 7 6 8 24 21 12 5 5 2 14 7 9 2 1 6 10 14 3 27
14 Rochdale 22 6 9 7 30 30 11 3 5 3 14 12 11 3 4 4 16 18 0 27
15 Hartlepool United 22 8 3 11 24 34 11 7 2 2 16 11 11 1 1 9 8 23 -10 27
16 Bradford City 21 5 11 5 27 25 11 3 7 1 17 13 10 2 4 4 10 12 2 26
17 Bristol Rovers 21 7 5 9 27 33 11 5 1 5 17 18 10 2 4 4 10 15 -6 26
18 Crawley Town 20 7 4 9 23 30 10 3 3 4 12 16 10 4 1 5 11 14 -7 25
19 Barrow 21 5 7 9 22 26 10 3 4 3 13 12 11 2 3 6 9 14 -4 22
20 Colchester United 20 5 7 8 16 25 10 3 3 4 10 12 10 2 4 4 6 13 -9 22
21 Carlisle United 21 4 7 10 15 29 10 2 5 3 6 9 11 2 2 7 9 20 -14 19
22 Scunthorpe United 22 3 10 9 19 37 10 2 4 4 8 15 12 1 6 5 11 22 -18 19
23 Stevenage 21 4 7 10 16 34 11 3 5 3 10 13 10 1 2 7 6 21 -18 19
24 Oldham Athletic 22 4 4 14 22 39 12 2 2 8 16 25 10 2 2 6 6 14 -17 16

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.