National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's East Kilbride or Annan Athletic that keep their silverware dream alive.
13-6-10 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Annan Athletic when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 29 matches are 42-30 (scored/conceded).
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for East Kilbride and Annan Athletic.
East Kilbride form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Challenge Cup for East Kilbride, as the manager Rutkiewicz led his troops to eliminate Motherwell U21, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season, Kilbride's Challenge Cup journey ended in the 1st round.A nice win for East Kilbride last time playing, versus Bo'ness United. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0.
Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against Gala Fairydean Rovers.There will be little rest for East Kilbride after this match as they are travelling to Spartans for a Football League game in only four days.
Annan Athletic form and stats
Annan was sent out of Challenge Cup in the 1st round last season.No League Two points yet away for Annan Athletic, from their first 2 matches.
Annan Athletic's previous game was their home loss versus Stirling Albion (1-2).
Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Dumbarton's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Annan Athletic in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Annan Athletic, 0 draws and 5 defeats.
The schedule is very tough for Annan now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A League Two game at Albion Rovers is waiting in only four days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Annan Athletic has managed 0 goals and let in 5 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Swinglehurst 1 goals | T. Goss 1 goals | B. Lussint 1 goals |
East Kilbride missing players
Annan Athletic missing players
| East Kilbride | Annan Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 70 | 21 | Scored | S | 16 | 40 | ||
| 29 | 13 | Conceded | C | 23 | 41 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 60% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 16% | ||
| 4.2 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.2 | ||
| 7.7 | 6.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.3 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.4 | 9 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.7 | ||
| 38% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 43% | ||
| 11.3 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.9 | 10.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dumbarton | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 12 |
| 2 | East Fife | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Stirling Albion | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Stranraer | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 5 |
| 6 | Forfar Athletic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 7 | Albion Rovers | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 8 | Elgin City | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Annan Athletic | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 3 |
| 10 | Stenhousemuir | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 3 |
