Struggling Bolton U23 will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Nottingham U23 in the upcoming league round. It’s 11th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Bolton U23 form and stats
Bolton U23's struggle is real here at The County Ground with only 1 point collected from 10 Professional Development League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-1-9. All in all it has been a very rough period for Bolton U23 who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 15 attempts. Their previous win was against Sheffield Wed U23, 140 days ago. 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.
The fans are hoping that Bolton U23 will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Professional Development League game against Sheffield Utd U23 (placed 10th). Heartbreak before that as Bolton U23 lost 0-3 at Wigan U23's place.
The manager will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Barnsley U23 in only four days.
Bolton U23 aren't scoring a lot here at The County Ground in the league, with only 7 goals from 10 games. As for conceded goals, Bolton U23's unpleasant statistic is 28 goals surrendered.
Nottingham U23 form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (48) in Professional Development League, are W4-D4-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Professional Development League.
Nottingham U23 delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Stoke City U23 in their previous match; a Premier League Cup game. Before that, Nottingham U23 secured a home win against Crewe U23 with the score 3-1.
Nottingham U23 has another fixture away, a Professional Development League game, against Hull City U23 in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
Nottingham U23 are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 19 times in 10 away games so far. 13 goals have been conceded by Nottingham U23 in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Nottingham U23 - Bolton U23 6-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Bolton U23 three wins, one draw and Nottingham U23 one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Bolton U23 missing players
Nottingham U23 missing players
| Bolton U23 | Nottingham U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 7 | 19 | 48 |
| 69 | 28 | 7 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 95% |
| 90% | 90% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 85% |
| 67% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 65% |
| 52% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 50% | 55% |
| 48% | 40% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 30% |
| 43% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 70% | 70% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | 25% |
| 57% | 50% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 3.2 | 4.5 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5.7 | 5.3 |
| 6.8 | 7.2 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| 1 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 128 | 72 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 23 | 111 | 195 |
| 54 | 27 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 48 | 84 |
| 30% | 26% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 64% | 40% | 52% |
- Bolton U23 has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest points (1) at home
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals (16)
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals (7) at home
- Bolton U23 has the fewest scored goals in the first half (6)
- 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 (69)
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals in the first half (24)
- Bolton U23 has the most conceded goals in the second half (39)
- Bolton U23 has the the worst goal difference (-21) at home
- Bolton U23 has the the worst goal difference (-53)
- Bolton U23 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- 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 won significantly more corners at home than away.
- 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)
- Nottingham U23 has the most scored goals (48)
- Nottingham U23 has the most scored goals in the first half (21)
- Nottingham U23 has the the best goal difference (+27)
- Nottingham U23 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Nottingham U23 have scored more than double the goals of Bolton U23.
| 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 | Wigan U23 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 38 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 39 |
| 3 | Leeds U23 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 38 |
| 4 | Burnley U23 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 38 |
| 5 | Birmingham U23 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 34 |
| 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 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 36 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 30 |
| 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 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 34 | 39 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 15 | -5 | 21 |
| 10 | Sheffield Utd U23 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 31 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -15 | 20 |
| 11 | Bolton U23 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 69 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 41 | -53 | 4 |