It's the second opportunity for points this campaign as Sunderland U21 and Aston Villa U21 cross swords at Eppleton Colliery Football Ground.
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.
Sunderland U21 form and stats
The season before, Sunderland U21's league results were 13 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, results that produced 2nd spot in the Premier League U21. Over these 22 matches they scored 38 goals and gave away 20. Appearing as the home team in the previous season Sunderland U21 generated 7-2-2 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 10 conceded.
The Sunderland regulars got no joy from their last match, also played here at Eppleton Colliery Football Ground: A 0-3 defeat against Aston Villa U21 (placed 6th). Sunderland U21 lost the game against Aston Villa U21 in the first half with a 0-3 deficit and could never come back from that.
Heartbreak before that as Sunderland U21 lost 2-3 at Norwich City U21's place.Aston Villa U21 form and stats
Two trips in a row for Villa, whose coach Carss could celebrate last time after the win against Sunderland U21. It was a convincing performance from Aston Villa U21 when Sunderland U21 were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. Frith (2) and Young scored their goals.
Ahead of that game was the 3-3 draw at home against Middlesbrough U21.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Kelly 1 goals | J. Ryder 1 goals |   B. Young 1 goals |
Sunderland U21 missing players
Aston Villa U21 missing players
| Sunderland U21 | Aston Villa U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 60% | 60% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
