Cardiff U23 are stalking the top league places while Watford U23 are more worried about avoiding relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Watford U23 have scored away.
This should be an engaging match with lots of fun and excitement as both contenders are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!
Cardiff U23 form and stats
This stadium, Cardiff International Sports Stadium, has been a fortress for Cardiff U23 in the Professional Development League so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 6-0-0. Cardiff U23 haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Wigan U23, 112 days ago.
The Cardiff supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Colchester U23 in Professional Development League and win 2-0.
In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Queens Park Rangers U23.Goals decide football matches and Cardiff are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 6 league matches. Defensively Cardiff have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Watford U23 form and stats
The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Professional Development League. It's looking increasingly bleak for Watford who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Queens Park Rangers U23 was the last time a defeat was avoided.
Watford failed to get anything from their last game, a Professional Development League home match vs Ipswich U23 (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 1-4.
That result followed a home victory 4-1 versus Birmingham U23 in the Premier League Cup.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Watford manager Ö. Riza as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Newcastle Utd U23.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Watford as they have only managed to score 4 times from 5 away games in the league. As for defending, Watford U23 rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Cardiff victories, three draws and two Watford U23 wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Cardiff U23 missing players
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| Cardiff U23 | Watford U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 10 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 25 | 14 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 80% | 90% |
| 90% | 83% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 90% |
| 60% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 80% |
| 40% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 60% |
| 10% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 60% | 40% |
| 3.7 | 4.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8 | 5.7 |
| 1.7 | 0.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.5 | 9.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8.2 | 10.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.6 | 4.1 |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 31% | 34% |
| 6.8 | 5.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 13.2 | 10.6 |
| 2.7 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4.5 |
- Cardiff U23 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cardiff U23 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Watford U23 have scored away.
- Cardiff U23 have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the most clean sheets (5) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the most points (18) at home in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the the best goal difference (+12) at home in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have the the best goal difference (+20) in Professional Development League
- Cardiff U23 have won all their games so far.
- Cardiff U23 have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Cardiff U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cardiff U23 is in the best form (6-0-0) in Professional Development League
- Watford U23 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cardiff U23 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 30 |
| 2 | Bristol City U23 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 22 |
| 3 | Ipswich U23 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | Millwall U23 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Colchester U23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Charlton U23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | Watford U23 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 10 |
| 8 | Queens Park Rangers U23 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -11 | 10 |
| 9 | Swansea City U23 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -10 | 8 |