Watford U21 are ready to contest Reading U21 in this Professional Development League match. All you need to learn about the match can be found here!
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (5) in Professional Development League
- Reading U21 have scored more than double the goals of Watford U21.
Watford U21 form and stats
0 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Watford U21 have to build on here at The Orbital Fasteners Stadium in the Professional Development League. The home stadium (The Orbital Fasteners Stadium) is supposed to be a fortress, but for Watford U21 it's been a house of straw as the last four games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?
Watford haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 275 minutes ago. Grieves scored that one.
Watford U21's previous fixture was a Premier League Cup game also played at home, ending 3-1 vs Middlesbrough U21. The home team hope to to repeat that performance.
In the match before, 2-2 away to Huddersfield Town U21 (Premier League Cup).
It should be taken into account that a look at the 12 latest league matches reveals that 10 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).
Watford U21 has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {1 goals} from 4 games. Watford U21's defense is seriously deficient as 13 goals have been conceded in these matches.
Reading U21 form and stats
Playing away, Reading U21 have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Professional Development League this season. Reading love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
The regulars enjoyed Reading U21's previous match versus Wolves U21, a Premier League Cup win (3-0) played at home.
The fixture earlier was the Premier League Cup-battle against Sunderland U21, a home defeat (1-2).
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this club's 11 most recent league games have ended with three goals or more.
In the opposite end, Reading U21 have conceded 13 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Funnily enough, the last time Reading U21 kept a "clean sheet" was also against this opponent, five league matches ago (Reading U21 - Watford U21 1-0).
Watford U21 missing players
Reading U21 missing players
| Watford U21 | Reading U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 14 | 23 |
| 38 | 13 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 86% | 69% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 29% | 23% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 15% |
| 17% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 54% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 83% | 75% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 31% |
| 4 | 5.5 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 6.5 | 6.7 |
| 7.4 | 8 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 6.7 | 4.8 |
| 1.4 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 0.8 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 7.8 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 11.2 | 11.5 |
| 2.6 | 3.5 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| 17% | 7% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 56% | 42% |
| 14.5 | 15.5 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 9.2 | 7.9 |
| 7.3 | 8.5 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
- All of Reading U21's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Reading U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Reading U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Reading U21 have scored more than double the goals of Watford U21.
- Reading U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Watford U21 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Watford U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Watford U21 have lost all their home matches so far.
- Watford U21 have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest points (0) at home in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals (5) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the most conceded goals (38) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the the worst goal difference (-12) at home in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have the the worst goal difference (-33) in Professional Development League
- Watford U21 have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Watford U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bristol City U21 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 35 |
| 2 | Millwall U21 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 25 | 31 |
| 4 | Cardiff City U21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 24 |
| 5 | Swansea City U21 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 23 |
| 6 | Reading U21 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 22 |
| 9 | Charlton Athletic U21 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 20 |
| 10 | Ipswich Town U21 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 26 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 20 |
| 14 | Colchester United U21 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 22 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Queens Park Rangers U21 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 16 | -3 | 13 |
| 20 | Watford U21 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 25 | -33 | 3 |
