Season ticket holders at The County Ground haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Bolton U23 languishing in the 11th position so far. The guesting Birmingham U23 will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
Birmingham U23 could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League Cup game only three sleeps ago.
Bolton U23 form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Professional Development League this season. Bolton U23, who have the most conceded goals (67) in Professional Development League, have only managed 0 wins, 1 draw and 9 losses from their games here at The County Ground. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 14 attempts. Bolton U23 are slowly digging their own grave here at The County Ground with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in ten attempts. The last victory here came in the Crystal Palace U23 match.
Bolton U23 faced defeat in their previous match, away at Wigan U23 (0-3). Heartbreak before that as Bolton U23 lost 1-4 at Leeds U23's place.
Bolton U23 have scored 7 league goals here from 10 matches, not a lot. As for conceded goals, Bolton U23's unpleasant statistic is 28 goals surrendered.
Birmingham U23 form and stats
The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (4) away in Professional Development League, are W5-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Professional Development League.
The supporters enjoyed Birmingham U23's previous game versus Derby County U23, a Premier League Cup 1-0 win played at home. A draw for Birmingham U23 before that, at their own venue hosting Wolves U23 (2-2).
Birmingham U23 are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. 11 goals have been conceded by Birmingham U23 in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Birmingham U23 - Bolton U23 6-0 earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Bolton U23 won two games, zero matches ended with a draw and Birmingham U23 has three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / twoBolton U23 missing players
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| Bolton U23 | Birmingham U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 36 |
| 67 | 28 | 8 | Conceded | C | 6 | 11 | 25 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 90% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 80% |
| 65% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 44% | 55% |
| 55% | 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 40% |
| 50% | 40% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 22% | 15% |
| 40% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 44% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 44% | 35% |
| 60% | 50% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 128 | 72 | 34 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 91 | 226 |
| 54 | 27 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 37 | 94 |
| 28% | 26% | 9% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 38% | 37% |
- Birmingham U23 has the most clean sheets (4) away
- Birmingham U23 has the most scored goals in the second half (25)
- Birmingham U23 have scored more than double the goals of Bolton U23.
- Birmingham U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Bolton U23 has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest dropped points from leading position (5)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest points (1) at home
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals (15)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals (7) at home
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals in the first half (5)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals in the second half (10)
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals (28) at home
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals (67)
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals in the first half (23)
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals in the second half (38)
- Bolton U23 has the the worst goal difference (-21) at home
- Bolton U23 has the the worst goal difference (-52)
- Bolton U23 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Bolton U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Bolton U23 have yet to win a game at home.
- Bolton U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Bolton U23 is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| 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 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 48 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 27 | 44 |
| 2 | Leeds U23 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 38 |
| 3 | Burnley U23 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 38 |
| 4 | Wigan U23 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 36 |
| 5 | Birmingham U23 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
| 6 | Hull City U23 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 0 | 32 |
| 7 | Crewe U23 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 29 |
| 8 | Barnsley U23 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 36 | 43 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -7 | 26 |
| 9 | Sheffield Wed U23 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 33 | 37 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | -4 | 21 |
| 10 | Sheffield Utd U23 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 29 | 45 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -16 | 17 |
| 11 | Bolton U23 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 15 | 67 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 39 | -52 | 4 |