The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Birmingham U23 are in the 6th position while the guesting Sheffield Wed U23 worry at 9th.
- Birmingham U23 has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest scored goals (8) in Professional Development League
Birmingham U23 and Sheffield Wed U23 should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Birmingham U23 form and stats
Birmingham U23's struggle is real here with only 3 points collected from 6 Professional Development League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-0-5.
A nice win for Birmingham last time playing, versus Coventry U23. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1. Before that match, a win away at Hull City U23.
The Birmingham manager has got the team scoring with 14 from 6 home games in the league. As for conceded goals, Birmingham U23's unpleasant statistic is 18 goals surrendered. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Birmingham U23 have let the opposition score 18 times, an average of more than three per game.
Sheffield Wed U23 form and stats
1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Sheffield Wed U23, who have the fewest scored goals (8) in Professional Development League, playing as the away team in the Professional Development League this season.
There were no winners in Sheffield's previous match, a Professional Development League home game that ended 1-1 vs Crewe U23 (placed 7th). It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Nottingham U23 wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sheffield as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Sheffield Wed U23 have conceded 6 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Sheffield Wed U23 - Birmingham 1-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Birmingham won four games, one match ended with a draw and Sheffield Wed U23 has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / threeBirmingham U23 missing players
Sheffield Wed U23 missing players
| Birmingham U23 | Sheffield Wed U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 26 | 14 | 7 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 24 | 18 | 6 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 50% | 83% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 25% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13.2 | 11.5 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 7.3 | 7.1 |
| 5.6 | 5.5 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 2.9 |
| 39% | 42% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 23% |
- Birmingham U23 has the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Professional Development League
- Birmingham U23 has the most conceded goals (18) at home in Professional Development League
- Birmingham U23 has the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Professional Development League
- Birmingham U23 has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Professional Development League
- Birmingham U23 has the most matches over the total-line (10) in Professional Development League
- Birmingham U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Birmingham U23 have scored more than double the goals of Sheffield Wed U23.
- Birmingham U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest points (3) away in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest scored goals (3) away in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest scored goals (8) in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Professional Development League
- Sheffield Wed U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sheffield Wed U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sheffield Wed 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 | Nottingham U23 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 21 | 31 |
| 2 | Sheffield Utd U23 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 26 |
| 3 | Barnsley U23 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Hull City U23 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 22 |
| 5 | Wigan U23 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Birmingham U23 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 26 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| 7 | Crewe U23 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 11 |
| 8 | Coventry U23 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 9 | Sheffield Wed U23 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 7 |