Coventry City U21 have come here for an intriguing battle against the hosting Birmingham City U21. Read up on the match with this in-depth Professional Development League preview!
- All of Birmingham City U21's home-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
- Coventry City U21 have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Professional Development League
Birmingham City U21 have less rest than Coventry City U21 in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Professional Development League game only three days ago. That game was an away game at Hull City U21, so at least Birmingham City U21 are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Birmingham City U21 form and stats
Birmingham City U21 have played three Professional Development League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Birmingham lost their last game at Hull City U21 (placed 5th) after a 1-3 scoreline.
Preceding that match was the home game against Wigan Athletic U21 that was lost 1-4.Goals decide football matches and Birmingham City U21 are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Birmingham City U21 have allowed the opposition to score 8 goals here at St. Andrew's Stadium.
Coventry City U21 form and stats
Coventry City U21 are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Professional Development League, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Coventry City U21 have much to remedy after their unexpected loss (1-2) to Sheffield Wednesday U21 in their previous game, played in front of their own supporters.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Crewe Alexandra U21 with the score of 2-0.After this away game Coventry return home for a Professional Development League game against Barnsley U21. That game is only four sleeps after this.
3 goals so far away for Coventry City U21, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
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| Birmingham City U21 | Coventry City U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 11 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 60% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 40% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 3.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4 | 5.6 |
| 6.8 | 9.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 7 | 7.2 |
| 1.4 | 0.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6.8 | 7.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 10.5 | 10.8 |
| 2.8 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 57% | 64% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 75% | 60% |
| 14.6 | 16.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 12 | 14 |
| 7.4 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 4.8 |
- All of Birmingham City U21's home-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
- All of Coventry City U21's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Birmingham City U21 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Birmingham City U21 have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Coventry City U21 have scored in all their matches so far.
- Coventry City U21 have the fewest conceded goals (2) away in Professional Development League
- Coventry City U21 have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Professional Development League
- Coventry City U21 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Coventry City U21 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 | Sheffield United U21 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | Wigan Athletic U21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Burnley U21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | -2 | 9 |
| 4 | Coventry City U21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Hull City U21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Sheffield Wednesday U21 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -14 | 6 |
| 7 | Peterborough United U21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -5 | 5 |
| 8 | Birmingham City U21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | Barnsley U21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 4 |
| 10 | Crewe Alexandra U21 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 2 |
