Crewe U23 will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Leeds U23.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Crewe U23 form and stats
With 2 Professional Development League wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Crewe U23 are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Happy days for Crewe U23 in their previous game, a Professional Development League match away at Sheffield Wed U23 (placed 10th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. In the match before that, Crewe U23 hosted Hull City U23 and drew the game 1-1.
Crewe U23 has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Crewe U23's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Leeds U23 form and stats
As the visiting team in Professional Development League matches, Leeds U23, who have the most clean sheets (8) in Professional Development League, have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.
Leeds U23 are travelling after their nice 5-0 home win in the Professional Development League against Hull City U23 (placed 8th). A 1-1 draw at Nottingham U23's stadium before that.
As mentioned above, Leeds U23 was the only team on the pitch versus Hull City U23 in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Leeds U23 manager as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Birmingham U23.
Leeds U23 find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 10 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. Leeds U23 have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Leeds U23 - Crewe U23 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Crewe U23 3 wins, 0 draws and Leeds U23 2 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.Crewe U23 missing players
Leeds U23 missing players
| Crewe U23 | Leeds U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 28 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 31 |
| 28 | 12 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 94% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 88% |
| 76% | 56% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 75% |
| 59% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 50% |
| 41% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 25% |
| 35% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 25% |
| 65% | 44% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 44% |
| 12% | 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 43% | 50% |
| 29% | 56% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 19% |
| 3.9 | 3 | 2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 7 | 7.1 |
| 6.6 | 6 | 2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| 0.8 | 0.2 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 165 | 95 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 79 | 219 |
| 68 | 33 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 32 | 93 |
| 38% | 30% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 25% | 31% |
- Crewe U23 have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Leeds U23 has the fewest conceded goals (13)
- Leeds U23 has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4)
- Leeds U23 has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Leeds U23 has the most clean sheets (8)
- Leeds U23 has the most matches under the total-line (8)
- Leeds U23 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Leeds U23 have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Leeds U23 is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Burnley U23 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 32 |
| 2 | Leeds U23 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 18 | 31 |
| 3 | Birmingham U23 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 30 |
| 4 | Nottingham U23 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 34 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 29 |
| 5 | Wigan U23 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 24 |
| 6 | Crewe U23 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 23 |
| 7 | Barnsley U23 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 22 |
| 8 | Hull City U23 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 18 | -11 | 20 |
| 9 | Sheffield Utd U23 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 19 | -8 | 16 |
| 10 | Sheffield Wed U23 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | -6 | 14 |
| 11 | Bolton U23 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 50 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 26 | -37 | 4 |