Colchester United VS Crawley Town

Colchester host Crawley for this English League Two round 16 at Colchester Community Stadium early Wednesday Beijing time. This the 4th tier of English football and is definitely the best fourth-highest level of any any country on the planet! Players are professional footballers. Most teams play ”traditional” English football – ie. players are expected to fight hard for every ball. Sophisticated attacking using short passess is pretyt rare and high-scoring matches are quite rare. Colchester have failed to score in their most recent two games and are clearly low in confidence, especially offensively. Crawley, on the other hand, usually aim at playing pretty defensive, even cautious football on the road. They have allowed four goals in their latest two games so I'm sure Crawley's manager K. Betsy has worked on defense with his players at the training pitch.. The bookies estimate the goal expectancy here to be around 2.25 but I would set the number at 2.14. The draw, - with a probability of 33% - would surely surprise no one here and this result would be enough to bring my fans and me a winner with the recommended +0.5 goals handicap on the visitors. I do not see a favorite here which means that we have a high chance of winning.

Both teams have had a pretty disappointing start to the season. Indeed, Colchester are in the 23th position in this league with a total of 24 clubs. They have grabbed just nine points so far and have lost four of their of their latest five games in this league and three matches in a row in all competitions. They should have potential for better performances but at the moment things look bad for them and the bookies respect them too much. On the 11th of the month it was a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes in EFL Cup when visiting Gillingham but the hosts qualified through penalties.In their most recent match they were disappointing and lost to Newport away from home 0-1. They did have 61% ball possession but their offense lacked structure, pace and passing accuracy but only recorded one shot on target! Before this they could easily have lost to Swindon away from home by a bigger margin than 0-1. The hosts dominated the events on the pitch with 65% ball possession and recorded much more scoring attempts (17-5), shots on goal, passes, completed passes, attacks and dangerous attacks, Crawley, on the other hand, have 12 points to their account and have looked much better than the hosts on the pitch lately. They have won three games in a row and were excellent especially offensively in their most match against Mansfield who currently occupy the 4th place in the standings. They were priced around 4.00 on the market to win but took a fine 3-2 win at home!