The league table in Premiership Development League tells a story about these teams so far, with Linfield U20 leading Institute U20 by 20 points. Match preview to follow:
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Linfield U20 form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 Premiership Development League games here for Linfield U20, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Premiership Development League,. The data says 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
Happy days for Linfield U20 in their previous game, a Premiership Development League match away at Carrick Rangers U20 (placed 6th) that ended with a 4-1 victory. A strong away win before that one, visiting Ballymena United U20 and winning 4-0.
Linfield U20 are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (16 goals in 6 games). From these home matches, Linfield U20 have conceded only 5 goals.
Institute U20 form and stats
Playing away, Institute U20, who have the fewest points (1) away in Premiership Development League, have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Premiership Development League this season. Institute U20 has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership Development League home defeat versus Crusaders U20 with 1-5 on the scoreboard. Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Larne U20.
Institute U20 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.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Institute U20's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 4 matches. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Institute U20's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 12 goals in 4 travels. Institute U20 can't defend away. 12 goals have been scored by the opposition in 4 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Institute U20 - Linfield U20 1-2, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Linfield U20 3 wins, 1 draw and Institute U20 0 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 0 games had two or less.Linfield U20 missing players
Institute U20 missing players
| Linfield U20 | Institute U20 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 40 | 16 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 12 | 32 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 64% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 36% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 45% | 33% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 50% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 18% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 75% | 42% |
| 7.2 | 6.5 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.7 | 0.8 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- All of Institute U20's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Institute U20 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Institute U20 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Institute U20 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Institute U20 have yet to win a game away.
- Institute U20 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Linfield U20 have created more than twice as many corners as Institute U20.
- Linfield U20 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield U20 have scored more than double the goals of Institute U20.
- Linfield U20 have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Linfield U20 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 | Cliftonville U20 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 25 | 34 |
| 2 | Crusaders U20 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 26 | 31 |
| 3 | Dungannon Swifts U20 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 28 |
| 4 | Linfield U20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 32 | 27 |
| 5 | Glentoran U20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 19 |
| 6 | Carrick Rangers U20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | -2 | 17 |
| 7 | Coleraine U20 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 27 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 16 | -5 | 16 |
| 8 | Ballymena United U20 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 9 | Glenavon U20 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 32 | 49 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 25 | -17 | 12 |
| 10 | Larne U20 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 22 | -31 | 9 |
| 11 | Warrenpoint Town U20 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -18 | 8 |
| 12 | Institute U20 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -19 | 7 |