Watford U18 open their doors to Reading U18 for another intriguing U18 Professional Development League fixture.
- Watford U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Reading U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Watford U18 form and stats
When playing at home in the U18 Professional Development League, Watford U18 have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.
Watford U18 are returning here after guesting Lincoln City U18 in a FA Youth Cup match and winning with a 3-0 scoreline.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Bristol City U18 (1-2).If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 11 latest league games shows that 9 of them had goals from both teams.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Everton U18 are coming to town in two days.
Watford are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here in their league games, having scored an impressive 14 goals in 5 matches. Watford U18 are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (12 from 5 played).
Reading U18 form and stats
As the visiting team in U18 Professional Development League matches, Reading U18 have produced an overall stat of 3-0-3 so far. It's a growing despair in Reading U18 as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Two away matches in a row for Reading, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-3 versus Everton U18 in the FA Youth Cup.
A loss against Charlton Athletic U18 was the result prior to that, in a U18 Professional Development League home game.Reading U18 are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 10 times in 6 away games so far. The Reading manager Leigertwood has some worries about the defense as 13 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Strangely enough, the last time Reading U18 kept a "clean sheet" was also meeting this opponent, seven league games ago (Reading U18 - Watford U18 2-0).
Watford U18 missing players
Reading U18 missing players
| Watford U18 | Reading U18 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 21 | 14 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 18 |
| 20 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 73% |
| 27% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 55% |
| 18% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 33% | 27% |
| 82% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 73% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- All of Reading U18's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Watford U18's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Reading U18 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Reading U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Reading U18 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Watford U18 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Watford U18 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Watford U18 have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Watford U18 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 | Cardiff City U18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 24 |
| 2 | Millwall U18 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 23 |
| 3 | Charlton Athletic U18 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 19 | 23 |
| 6 | Queens Park Rangers U18 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 28 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 23 | -2 | 18 |
| 8 | Reading U18 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Ipswich Town U18 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 16 |
| 11 | Watford U18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| 13 | Bristol City U18 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 15 | Swansea U18 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 18 | -4 | 12 |
| 16 | Colchester United U18 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 38 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 19 | -15 | 11 |
