National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Alloa Athletic or Airdrieonians that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Alloa Athletic participated in Challenge Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Alloa Athletic have collected 9 points from their League One home games so far after 3-0-1.
A nice win for Alloa Athletic last time playing, versus Montrose. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Rodden and Stanger scoring for the victors. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Ferguson when Rodden scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 69th minute.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Clyde and winning 4-2.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Alloa have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 1 and lost 2.
With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Alloa Athletic defense is not exactly impregnable. 6 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Airdrieonians form and stats
Airdrieonians was sent out of Challenge Cup in the 2nd round last season.Airdrieonians 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).
Airdrieonians go into this game after a win, the home game against Clyde that ended 5-0. As you can tell from the results above, Airdrieonians was very dominant against Clyde, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with Smith (2), Jamieson, McGill and Kouider-Aïssa providing the goals.
Preceding that, the 0-6 home loss versus Edinburgh City.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Airdrieonians in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Airdrieonians, 6 draws and 3 defeats.
Airdrieonians have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away 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 three Alloa victories, two draws and five Airdrieonians wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Rodden 5 goals |  C. Sammon 4 goals |  C. Gallagher 4 goals |
Alloa Athletic missing players
Airdrieonians missing players
| Alloa Athletic | Airdrieonians | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 46 | 28 | Scored | S | 23 | 52 | ||
| 33 | 17 | Conceded | C | 10 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 60% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 12% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 7.8 | 6.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 13.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.1 | ||
| 44% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 34% | ||
| 6.3 | 3.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 10.6 | ||
| 3 | 2.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dunfermline Athletic | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | Alloa Athletic | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Edinburgh City | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Montrose | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Falkirk | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 8 | Clyde | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 7 |
| 9 | Kelty Hearts | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -9 | 4 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 4 |
