The visiting West Bromwich Albion U23 side should be favourites in this visit to Sunderland U23, as the away team holds a 24 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Sunderland U23 form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier League 2 Divison Two this season. Sunderland U23, who have the most conceded goals (40) in Premier League 2 Divison Two, have only managed 0 wins, 0 draws and 6 losses from their games here. Sunderland U23 are yet to produce one single Premier League 2 Divison Two point here, to the disappointment of their supporters. All 6 matches have been lost. All in all it has been a very rough period for Sunderland U23 who hasn’t won a game in their last 14 attempts. Their previous win was against Stoke City U23, 154 days ago. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here, with the home team losing six in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Norwich City U23 game.
In their previous game, the manager E. Dickman led his Sunderland U23 to a defeat in the Premier League 2 Divison Two match away at Aston Villa U23. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Prior to that, an away loss at Norwich City U23.
Sunderland U23 were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Sunderland U23 have scored 4 league goals here from 6 matches, not a lot. Sunderland U23 have conceded 14 goals in these home games, a significant number.
West Bromwich Albion U23 form and stats
The visitors are W2-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League 2 Divison Two.
West Bromwich Albion U23 are travelling after their nice 4-2 home win in the Premier League 2 Divison Two against Reading U23 (placed 8th). A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Fulham U23.
What a finish in the last match, as West Bromwich Albion U23 came back from being down 0-2 and secured all three points through C. Willock in the 88th minute.
The travelling fans enjoy West Bromwich Albion U23's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 6 league matches away. The West Bromwich Albion U23 manager D. Burton has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
West Bromwich Albion U23 - Sunderland U23 6-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's {1 Sunderland U23 victories}, 0 draws and {2 West Bromwich Albion U23 wins}. 3 of these games ended with three goals or more, 0 matches with two goals or less.Sunderland U23 missing players
West Bromwich Albion U23 missing players
| Sunderland U23 | West Bromwich Albion U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 7 | 11 | 32 |
| 40 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 69% |
| 21% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 38% |
| 43% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 15% |
| 3.3 | 2.7 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.3 | 5.6 |
| 6.6 | 6.8 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 6.7 | 6.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | 44 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 19 | 69 | 169 |
| 33 | 18 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 29 | 78 |
| 24% | 22% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 70% | 38% | 41% |
- All of West Bromwich Albion U23's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- 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 (8)
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4)
- Sunderland U23 has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4)
- Sunderland U23 has the most conceded goals (40)
- Sunderland U23 has the most conceded goals in the first half (26)
- Sunderland U23 has the the worst goal difference (-10) at home
- Sunderland U23 has the the worst goal difference (-32)
- Sunderland U23 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- 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 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)
- West Bromwich Albion U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- West Bromwich Albion U23 have scored more than double the goals of Sunderland U23.
- West Bromwich Albion 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 | West Ham United U23 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 31 | 38 |
| 2 | Manchester United U23 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 25 | 34 |
| 3 | West Bromwich Albion U23 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 25 |
| 4 | Aston Villa U23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 22 |
| 5 | Stoke City U23 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Middlesbrough U23 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 36 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 19 | -5 | 20 |
| 7 | Swansea City U23 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -9 | 18 |
| 8 | Reading U23 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 9 | Newcastle Utd U23 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 16 | -10 | 16 |
| 10 | Fulham U23 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 14 |
| 11 | Norwich City U23 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -8 | 14 |
| 12 | Sunderland U23 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 40 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 26 | -32 | 1 |