Sheffield United Women v Durham Women
FA Women's Championship | Bramall Lane
Sunday, 12 November 2023 @ 2.00pm
Durham Women travel to Sheffield United Women on early Sunday in the FA Women's Championship.
The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Sunderland Women 1-0 at home.
The Blades also lost their last match, 2-1 against Southampton Women, with their goal scored by Jodie Hutton.
With nine goals in nine games so far this season, Durham are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.0 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 17 goals at a rate of 1.9 per game.
Sheffield United are also below average scorers, with 1.2 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.3. They have conceded 1.5 goals per game.
In Isobel Goodwin, the Blades have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. She has notched five goals in eight appearances, to sit fourth in the scoring charts.
The away side's top scorers, with two goals in nine games each, are Poppy Pritchard, Saoirse Noonan and Amy Andrews.
The hosts are ninth in the table after eight games, of which they have won three and drawn one, earning 10 points.
Durham are one place ahead of Sheffield United in eighth, with three wins and two draws putting them on 11 points.
Sheffield United are in mixed form in the FA Women's Championship, with three wins and three losses from their last six games.
With two wins and a draw over that period, Durham's form is slightly worse – they have taken seven points from 18, compared to the Blades' nine.
In the last three years, Sheffield United and Durham have played each other on seven occasions. They won two each, and they drew three times.
On average, the Blades scored 1.4 goals and Durham 1.1 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on February 5, when Durham won 1-0 at home.