This match features two teams living in the basement of the Professional Development League, Crystal Palace U23 holding 10th place and Colchester U23 lying 9th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
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!
Crystal Palace U23 form and stats
Crystal Palace U23's struggle is real here with only 7 points collected from 10 Professional Development League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-5.
Crystal Palace U23 are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 302 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by J. Daly).
Crystal Palace U23 drew their last game, 1-1 away at Middlesbrough U23. A Professional Development League defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Millwall U23.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Crystal Palace U23 as they are travelling to their away game against Watford U23 in the Professional Development League. That match is four days after this one.
Crystal Palace U23 are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 10 games. Crystal Palace U23 have conceded 18 from these games.
Colchester U23 form and stats
Colchester U23, who have the most conceded goals (44) in Professional Development League, have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Professional Development League, after 1-1-7 (9 played). Bitter travels for Colchester U23 as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Ipswich U23 match.
There were no winners in Colchester U23's previous match, a Professional Development League home game that ended 4-4 vs Coventry U23 (placed 3rd). Prior to that match, the Colchester U23 manager faced defeat when travelling to Charlton U23 and losing 1-4.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Coventry U23 was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 8 goals, will the fun continue today?
Colchester U23 have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. Colchester U23 have conceded 21 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last five meetings between these two teams are: five wins for Crystal Palace U23, zero draws and zero wins for Colchester U23. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.Crystal Palace U23 missing players
Colchester U23 missing players
| Crystal Palace U23 | Colchester U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 19 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| 22 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 28 |
| 34 | 18 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 21 | 44 |
| 89% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 74% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 95% |
| 63% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 79% |
| 32% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 56% | 63% |
| 21% | 30% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 26% |
| 58% | 70% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 78% | 79% |
| 16% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 37% | 30% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 21% |
| 4.9 | 5.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| 5.1 | 4.7 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 0.7 | 0.9 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 169 | 92 | 6 | Total Shots | T S | 31 | 96 | 191 |
| 59 | 35 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 33 | 72 |
| 36% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 27% | 39% |
- Colchester U23 has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Colchester U23 has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- Colchester U23 has the fewest points (4) away
- Colchester U23 has the most conceded goals (44)
- Colchester U23 has the most conceded goals in the first half (21)
- Colchester U23 has the the worst goal difference (-12) away
- Colchester U23 has the the worst goal difference (-16)
- Colchester U23 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Colchester U23 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Colchester U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Crystal Palace U23 has the fewest points (7) at home
- Crystal Palace U23 has the fewest points from losing position (1)
- Crystal Palace U23 has the fewest scored goals (22)
- Crystal Palace U23 has the fewest scored goals in the second half (8)
- Crystal Palace U23 has the most dropped points from leading position (18)
- Crystal Palace U23 is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Watford U23 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 48 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 38 |
| 2 | Millwall U23 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 37 |
| 3 | Coventry U23 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 35 |
| 4 | Charlton U23 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 39 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 9 | 30 |
| 5 | Queens Park Rangers U23 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 38 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 28 |
| 6 | Cardiff U23 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 34 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 25 | -6 | 28 |
| 7 | Ipswich U23 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | -5 | 22 |
| 8 | Bristol City U23 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -12 | 21 |
| 9 | Colchester U23 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 28 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 21 | -16 | 16 |
| 10 | Crystal Palace U23 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 16 | -12 | 13 |