With the nervous opening fixture out of the way it’s time for the second Premiership Development League battle of the season. Portadown U20 eagerly anticipate Crusaders U20 in front of their home following.
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.
Portadown U20 form and stats
The home team returns after being equal after 90 minutes with Glenavon U20 (placed 6th) on their last time out; the Premiership Development League game ended 2-2.
Portadown U20 are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership Development League match at Larne U20 awaits in three days.
Crusaders U20 form and stats
Let's have a look at how Crusaders U20 performed last season in the Premiership Development League: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 21 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 78 and conceded 37 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 10 - drew 2 and lost 3 with 40/24 goals scored/conceded.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 3-0 against Linfield U20 in their previous game.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Institute U20 at their stadium, the result 2-0.A new game in only three days for Crusaders, the Premiership Development League home match versus Dungannon Swifts U20. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
Portadown U20 missing players
Crusaders U20 missing players
| Portadown U20 | Crusaders U20 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 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% |