Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Dunfermline Athletic & Celtic II face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Challenge Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Dunfermline Athletic form and stats
Last season, Dunfermline's Challenge Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.Dunfermline Athletic are steadily winning League One games and points here at East End Park. 4 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
The spoils were shared in Dunfermline Athletic's previous game, also at home. Visiting Clyde travelled back with a draw after a 2-2 scoreline. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Clyde as Benedictus's goal in the 88th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes.
In the game before, an away victory in the League One match versus Falkirk with a 1-0 scoreline.The manager McPake will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Peterhead in only four days.
Dunfermline are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 8 games. From these home matches, Dunfermline Athletic have conceded only 7 goals.
Celtic II form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Livingston U21 and Albion Rovers in order to reach 3rd round of Challenge Cup. Last season their Challenge Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.Two away games in a row for Celtic, whose manager McIntyre could celebrate last time after the win against Edinburgh University. A bizarre match with plenty of goals last time out for Celtic II, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fixture, will this match be as much fun?
Prior to that result Celtic II won their away game at East Stirlingshire in the Football League. The scoreline was 3-0.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. Todorov 5 goals |  C. Wighton 4 goals | M. Todd 3 goals |
Dunfermline Athletic missing players
Celtic II missing players
| Dunfermline Athletic | Celtic II | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Won | W | 10 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Scored | S | 35 | 69 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Conceded | C | 22 | 30 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 87% | 88% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 80% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 47% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 56% | ||
| 56% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 13% | 12% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.8 | 7.2 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10.8 | 11.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 13.1 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 7.3 | ||
| 38% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 37% | ||
| 4.8 | 6.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 7.8 | ||
| 1.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | ||
| 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 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 32 |
| 2 | Falkirk | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Montrose | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 27 |
| 4 | Alloa Athletic | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 25 |
| 6 | Airdrieonians | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Kelty Hearts | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -10 | 17 |
| 9 | Clyde | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -14 | 8 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -26 | 7 |
