Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Alloa Athletic & Queen of the South face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Challenge Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Alloa Athletic participated in Challenge Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Alloa Athletic have performed here at Indodrill Stadium this season with 6 wins from 8 League One matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 2.
The Alloa Athletic coach Ferguson and his pawns return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Montrose.
Before that game, a strong away victory at BSC Glasgow. A Scottish Cup game. 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 7 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 0 and lost 3.
Alloa Athletic are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Indodrill Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 21 goals in 8 matches. Alloa Athletic's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Queen of the South form and stats
Queen of the South's mission in Challenge Cup last season failed in the final.3-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Queen of the South in their League One matches away.
Queen has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Dunfermline Athletic for a 1-1 draw.
A loss, in the Scottish Cup away at Greenock Morton, earlier. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Queen of the South in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Queen of the South, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Queen has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. Queen of the South have conceded 15 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Alloa have not lost in the last 4 fixtures (3-1-0) facing Queen of the South.Top Goalscorers
  R. Paton 9 goals |   C. Sammon 5 goals | B. Rodden 5 goals |
Alloa Athletic missing players
Queen of the South missing players
| Alloa Athletic | Queen of the South | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 42 | 23 | Scored | S | 25 | 47 | ||
| 35 | 14 | Conceded | C | 23 | 40 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 92% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 12% | ||
| 4.7 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.3 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 47% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 42% | ||
| 6.8 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.6 | 9.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 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 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 36 |
| 2 | Edinburgh City | 17 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 31 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 29 |
| 4 | Montrose | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 28 |
| 5 | Alloa Athletic | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 27 |
| 6 | Airdrieonians | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 26 |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Kelty Hearts | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 18 | -8 | 20 |
| 9 | Clyde | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -16 | 9 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 17 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 41 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 23 | -31 | 7 |
