Most would pick Manchester United U18 in this match against Sunderland U18, but the away team will battle to the bitter end. Here's our complete match preview!
- Manchester United U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sunderland U18 have the fewest dropped points from leading position (3) in Premier League U18
It's no vacation for neither Manchester United U18 nor Sunderland U18 as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Manchester United U18 form and stats
Manchester United U18 have played 6 Premier League U18 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Manchester shared the glory with Middlesbrough U18 in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
Heartbreak before that as Manchester United U18 lost 1-4 at Blackburn U18's place.Manchester are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League U18 match at Stoke City U18 awaits in four days.
Manchester United U18 are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Trafford Training Centre in their league games, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 matches.
Sunderland U18 form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sunderland U18 so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).
The attacking players of Sunderland U18 have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 221 minutes.
Sunderland failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Everton U18 (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 0-1.
A loss against Manchester United U18 was the result prior to that, in a home game.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sunderland U18 manager Hewitson as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Derby U18.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sunderland U18 as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. Sunderland have conceded 13 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
It's not the first time these two sides meet this season, as the records show this recent fixture: Sunderland U18 - Manchester United U18 0-1. Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: seven - one - zero (Manchester wins - draws - Sunderland U18 wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Hugill 10 goals | M. Norkett 7 goals | E. Ennis 6 goals |
Manchester United U18 missing players
Sunderland U18 missing players
| Manchester United U18 | Sunderland U18 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 38 | 16 | 7 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 26 |
| 38 | 18 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 13 | 30 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 72% |
| 82% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 65% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 22% |
| 53% | 100% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 59% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 39% |
| 24% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 22% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 39% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- All of Manchester United U18's home-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
- Manchester United U18 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Manchester United U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Manchester United U18 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sunderland U18 have scored away.
- Manchester United U18 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sunderland U18 have the fewest dropped points from leading position (3) in Premier League U18
- Sunderland U18 have the fewest scored goals (7) away in Premier League U18
- Sunderland U18 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 | Manchester City U18 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 54 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 15 | 33 | 45 |
| 2 | Liverpool U18 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 58 | 34 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 24 | 36 |
| 3 | Blackburn U18 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 49 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 23 | 36 |
| 4 | Everton U18 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -6 | 27 |
| 5 | Manchester United U18 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 38 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 26 |
| 6 | Leeds United U18 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 52 | 54 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 27 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 27 | -2 | 26 |
| 7 | Burnley U18 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 32 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 21 | -5 | 26 |
| 8 | Derby U18 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 47 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 24 | -20 | 26 |
| 9 | Wolverhampton U18 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 25 |
| 10 | Middlesbrough U18 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 30 | 39 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -9 | 25 |
| 11 | Nottingham Forest U18 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | -3 | 23 |
| 12 | Sunderland U18 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -4 | 23 |
| 13 | Newcastle Utd U18 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 20 | -16 | 16 |
| 14 | Stoke City U18 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 26 | 45 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 28 | -19 | 16 |
