All you need to know about the Reading U18 - Southampton U18 game:

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Premier League U18 match only four days ago. That game was an away game at Fulham U18, so at least Reading U18 are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Reading U18 form and stats

Reading U18's results here at Bearwood Park Training Facility in the Premier League U18 have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 7 defeats. Reading has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager M. Donaldson and the players.

Reading U18 were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Reading as they are travelling to their away game against Norwich U18 in the Premier League U18. That match is four days after this one.

Goals decide football matches and Reading U18 are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 11 league matches. Reading have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.

Southampton U18 form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Southampton U18, who have the fewest scored goals (22) in Premier League U18, so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-8 (win-draw-lose). The loyal fans travelling with their beloved Southampton have enjoyed the stadium food more than the matches as the visitors have gone ten consecutive matches without winning on the road. The last time three points were secured away was the Arsenal U18 game. Southampton are desperate to end a 15-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Leicester U18 fixture.

L. Pearce was the last player to score for the away team. Southampton haven't scored a league goal in the last 229 minutes.

As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Norwich U18 was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.

The attacking power of Southampton U18 when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Southampton can't defend away. 41 goals have been scored by the opposition in 10 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Reading U18-Southampton U18 H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Reading zero wins, Southampton U18 four wins, one draw. two of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

J. Hamilton 1 goals

J. Clarke 1 goals

N. Melvin-Lambert 1 goals

Reading U18 missing players

Southampton U18 missing players