This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premier League 2 Divison Two, Newcastle Utd U23 holding 13th place and Stoke City U23 lying 9th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
- Newcastle Utd U23 has the most points from losing position (7) in Premier League 2 Divison Two
- Stoke City U23 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
The visiting Stoke City U23 played their last game only four days ago, a Premier League 2 Divison Two match.
Newcastle Utd U23 form and stats
Newcastle Utd U23, who have the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in Premier League 2 Divison Two, have played 6 Premier League 2 Divison Two games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). We have seen two home losses in a row now for Newcastle, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
S. Flaherty was the last player to score a league goal for Newcastle Utd U23 and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Newcastle haven't scored in 180 minutes.
Newcastle Utd U23's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-3 versus Wolves U23 (placed 5th). Preceding that match was a defeat to Norwich City U23 (0-2).
Newcastle has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Newcastle have allowed the opposition to score 15 goals here at Blue Flames Ground.
Stoke City U23 form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League 2 Divison Two travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 3 defeats.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier League 2 Divison Two home defeat versus Burnley U23 with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Before that, Stoke secured a home win against Crystal Palace U23 with the score 1-0.
The attacking power of Stoke City U23 when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. Stoke have conceded 8 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Newcastle Utd U23 four wins, zero draws and Stoke City U23 one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Flaherty 4 goals |  G. Kyeremateng 4 goals |
Newcastle Utd U23 missing players
Stoke City U23 missing players
| Newcastle Utd U23 | Stoke City U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 13 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 20 | 15 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 78% |
| 78% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 56% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 22% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 44% | 50% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 44% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.6 | 15 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 8.2 | 8.6 |
| 6.3 | 6.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 23% | 21% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 17% | 34% |
- All of Newcastle Utd U23's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Stoke City U23's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Newcastle Utd U23 has the most points from losing position (7) in Premier League 2 Divison Two
- Newcastle Utd U23 has the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in Premier League 2 Divison Two
- Newcastle Utd U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Newcastle Utd U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Newcastle Utd U23 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Stoke City U23 have scored away.
- Newcastle Utd U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stoke City U23 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Stoke City U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Stoke City U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Stoke City U23 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 | Middlesbrough U23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 16 |
| 2 | Norwich City U23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Leeds U23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | West Bromwich Albion U23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Wolves U23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 6 | Aston Villa U23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | Crystal Palace U23 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -2 | 13 |
| 8 | Reading U23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 17 | -12 | 13 |
| 9 | Stoke City U23 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 12 |
| 10 | Fulham U23 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 15 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Sunderland U23 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | Burnley U23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 11 |
| 13 | Newcastle Utd U23 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -7 | 10 |