Nottingham U23 and Birmingham U23 are both riding high in the Professional Development League with their 3rd and 1st positions respectively. Expect a great game!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nottingham U23 form and stats
The story so far in the Professional Development League for Nottingham U23, who have the the best goal difference (+18) in Professional Development League, at their home stadium is 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Ever since the Queens Park Rangers U23 game Nottingham U23 has been unbeatable here producing five straight wins.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 278 minutes.
Nottingham U23 lost their last game at Stoke City U23 after a 0-4 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Nottingham U23 won a home game hosting Bolton U23 (6-0).
Nottingham U23 were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
It's goals goals goals for Nottingham U23 who have scored 19 goals from 5 league home games. From these home matches, Nottingham U23 have conceded only 3 goals.
Birmingham U23 form and stats
4-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Birmingham U23, who have the most clean sheets (7) in Professional Development League, in their Professional Development League matches away. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Nottingham U23. Birmingham U23 have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Birmingham U23 play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-5 to Derby County U23. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Sheffield Wed U23 at their stadium, the result 2-0.
Birmingham U23 lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
Birmingham U23 are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. 7 goals have been conceded by Birmingham U23 in these games.
Head 2 Head
Nottingham U23-Birmingham U23 H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Nottingham U23 1 win, Birmingham U23 3 wins, 0 draws. 0 of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Nottingham U23 missing players
Birmingham U23 missing players
| Nottingham U23 | Birmingham U23 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 27 | 19 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 11 | 27 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 57% | 71% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 43% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 29% |
| 27% | 60% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 64% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 36% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 57% | 50% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 5.1 | 4.4 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.3 | 5.7 |
| 4.9 | 4 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| 1.2 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 104 | 40 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 68 | 158 |
| 48 | 19 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 29 | 62 |
| 50% | 84% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 34% | 42% |
- Birmingham U23 has the most clean sheets (4) away
- Birmingham U23 has the most clean sheets (7)
- Birmingham U23 has the most scored goals in the second half (20)
- Birmingham U23 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Birmingham U23 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Birmingham U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Birmingham U23 is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Nottingham U23 has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home
- Nottingham U23 has the fewest conceded goals (9)
- Nottingham U23 has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3)
- Nottingham U23 has the fewest matches over the total-line (5)
- Nottingham U23 has the the best goal difference (+16) at home
- Nottingham U23 has the the best goal difference (+18)
- Nottingham U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nottingham U23 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Nottingham U23 have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Nottingham U23 have won all their matches at home so far.
- Nottingham U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Birmingham U23 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 27 |
| 2 | Burnley U23 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | Nottingham U23 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 24 |
| 4 | Leeds U23 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| 5 | Barnsley U23 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 28 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 21 |
| 6 | Crewe U23 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 19 |
| 7 | Hull City U23 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 18 |
| 8 | Wigan U23 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | -2 | 17 |
| 9 | Sheffield Wed U23 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Sheffield Utd U23 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 19 | -8 | 12 |
| 11 | Bolton U23 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 21 | -27 | 4 |