The visiting Stoke City U23 side should be favourites in this visit to Sunderland U23, as the away team holds a 16 point advantage from their eleven league games this season.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Sunderland U23 form and stats
There have been more unhappy faces than points at this arena so far this season, with Sunderland U23 yet to win or draw a Premier League 2 Divison Two game here. The sad story is: Sunderland U23 played 5 games, lost 5 games. All in all it has been a very rough period for Sunderland U23 who hasn’t won a game in their last eleven attempts. Their previous win was against Stoke City U23, 119 days ago. The home stadium is supposed to be a fortress, but for Sunderland U23 it's been a house of straw as the last five games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 394 minutes without scoring a league goal. L. Connelly was the last player to find the net.
Sunderland U23 lost their last game at Manchester United U23 (placed 2nd) after a 0-3 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Sunderland U23 lost 1-2 at home to Liverpool U23.
Sunderland U23 have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Sunderland U23 have allowed the opposition to score 13 goals here.
Stoke City U23 form and stats
Stoke City U23, who have the most clean sheets (3) away in Premier League 2 Divison Two, have an excellent away record in the Premier League 2 Divison Two so far with 4-0-2 from 6 games. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Stoke City U23 have lost on their last two travels.
Stoke City U23 are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the Premier League Cup against Nottingham U23. Preceding that game, the 2-4 loss visiting Newcastle Utd U23's place.
As mentioned above, Stoke City U23 was the only team on the pitch versus Nottingham U23 in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 15 goals in 6 league games away this season. In the opposite end, Stoke City U23 have conceded 10 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Stoke City U23 - Sunderland U23 1-1, played this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's {0 Sunderland U23 victories}, 2 draws and {3 Stoke City U23 wins}. 3 of these games ended with three goals or more, 2 matches with two goals or less.Sunderland U23 missing players
Stoke City U23 missing players
| Sunderland U23 | Stoke City U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 15 | 20 |
| 32 | 13 | 0 | Conceded | C | 7 | 10 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 73% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 55% |
| 45% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 67% | 55% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 33% | 18% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 45% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 50% | 36% |
| 55% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 3.7 | 2.8 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5.8 | 6.3 |
| 7.1 | 7 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 6.3 | 4.6 |
| 2.1 | 2.4 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | 36 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 32 | 72 | 138 |
| 27 | 14 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 19 | 35 | 61 |
| 26% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 43% | 33% |
- All of Stoke City U23's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Sunderland U23's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Stoke City U23 has the most clean sheets (3) away
- Stoke City U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Stoke City U23 have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Stoke City U23 have scored more than double the goals of Sunderland U23.
- Stoke City U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest points (0) at home
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest scored goals (7)
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3)
- Sunderland U23 has the most conceded goals (32)
- Sunderland U23 has the most conceded goals in the first half (19)
- Sunderland U23 has the the worst goal difference (-25)
- Sunderland U23 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Sunderland U23 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Sunderland U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Sunderland U23 have lost all their home matches so far.
- Sunderland U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sunderland U23 have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Sunderland U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sunderland U23 is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | West Ham United U23 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 25 | 31 |
| 2 | Manchester United U23 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 22 | 28 |
| 3 | West Bromwich Albion U23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| 4 | Stoke City U23 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | Middlesbrough U23 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 12 | -3 | 17 |
| 6 | Aston Villa U23 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Reading U23 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | Fulham U23 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 13 |
| 9 | Newcastle Utd U23 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -8 | 13 |
| 10 | Swansea City U23 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -11 | 11 |
| 11 | Norwich City U23 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -10 | 8 |
| 12 | Sunderland U23 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 19 | -25 | 1 |