Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Airdrieonians & Queen's Park face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Challenge Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Airdrieonians's stadium, Penny Cars Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Queen's Park have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Queen's Park when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses from 18 matches. They have scored 20 goals in these games and conceded 28.
Airdrieonians form and stats
Last season their Challenge Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.Airdrieonians have less points than they have played home games in the League One so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 0 points. Game days at Penny Cars Stadium have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Airdrieonians as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.
A good away victory last time out for Airdrieonians, who won 3-2 against Peterhead.
Ahead of that match, Airdrieonians lost 1-2 at home to Falkirk.Airdrieonians has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 5 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Queen's Park form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic in order to reach 2nd round of Challenge Cup. Last season their Challenge Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Queen's Park are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League One, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses).
It's the second away game in a row for Queen's, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Falkirk in the League One last time out.
Ahead of that match was the League One away draw versus Alloa Athletic that ended 1-1.Queen's are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 3 away goals from 3 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Airdrieonians victories, four draws and one Queen's Park win. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Murray 4 goals |  R. McCabe 3 goals | G. McGill 3 goals |
Airdrieonians missing players
Queen's Park missing players
| Airdrieonians | Queen's Park | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 32 | 20 | Scored | S | 23 | 39 | ||
| 35 | 17 | Conceded | C | 12 | 18 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | ||
| 5.3 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.4 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.3 | 8.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 11.4 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 34% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 36% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Queen's Park | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 2 | Montrose | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Cove Rangers | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 6 | Clyde | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 7 | Alloa Athletic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 4 |
| 8 | Airdrieonians | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | East Fife | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 4 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 3 |