About Match
1 points and 9 places separate them: Nottingham Forest U21 18th with 3, Southampton U21 9th with 4. Nottingham Forest U21 have been over-performing their table position on recent form: 11th in the league over the last five rounds against 18th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Nottingham Forest U21 1.5 scored and 3 conceded per game, Southampton U21 1 and 0.5, with the league averaging 2.05. A win here leaves Nottingham Forest U21 on 6 points and up to 1st, overtaking Southampton U21, other results permitting.
Southampton U21 carry a 5-game unbeaten run into this.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 1 for Nottingham Forest U21, 3 for Southampton U21 and 1 drawn, at 2.6 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 0% of meetings won.
Loughborough University Football Stadium in Loughborough, capacity 2,500, hosts the game.