Challenge Cup: Buckle up for the Queen's Park - Montrose clash

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Competition: Scotland Challenge Cup
Competition: Sat 10.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Hampden Park (52103 seats)

National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Queen's Park or Montrose that keep their silverware dream alive.

7-5-4 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Montrose 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 16 matches are 28-24 (scored/conceded).

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.

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Queen's Park form and stats

Last season their Challenge Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.

5-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Queen's Park so far this season.

The Queen's Park regulars enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Hamilton Academical and win 4-0. As mentioned above, Queen's "killed" Hamilton Academical in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.

Before that, a strong away victory at Peterhead. A Scottish Cup match. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Queen's Park handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

Queen's Park's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Montrose form and stats

Montrose was sent out of Challenge Cup in the 3rd round last season.

3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Montrose playing as the away team in the League One this season.

Montrose have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 180 minutes ago. Johnston was the goal scorer.

There were no winners in Montrose's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Alloa Athletic.

A disappointing defeat as solid favourites in the match before that one, the Scottish Cup fixture home against Darvel. Montrose are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

Montrose find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Montrose have conceded 13 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Montrose have put together a streak of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (2-2-0) when facing Queen's Park.

Top Goalscorers

Queen's ParkS. Murray
S. Murray
9 goals
MontroseM. Wright
M. Wright
5 goals
Queen's ParkG. Savoury
G. Savoury
4 goals

Queen's Park missing players

Montrose missing players

Queen's Park Montrose
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 11   Played P   10 25
14 6   Won W   4 10
5 2   Drew D   1 6
6 3   Lost L   5 9
53 23   Scored S   15 39
36 15   Conceded C   19 39
96% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   90% 88%
92% 91%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   80% 84%
72% 82%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   70% 60%
44% 45%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   60% 36%
32% 27%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   20% 20%
64% 82%   BTTS BTTS   50% 52%
24% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   20% 28%
16% 0%   Failed to Score F T   40% 32%
 
6.3 7.8   Corners for (avg) C F   4.7 4.6
6.8 6.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.7 5.2
1.1 1.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 1.6
1 1   Red cards R C   1 1
 
11 11.6   Shots (avg) S (   6.7 7.9
4.7 4.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.8
43% 44%   Goal Efficiency G E   45% 41%
 
11.3 12.2   Shots against (avg) S A   8.7 9.9
5.1 5.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 4.8

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ayr United 17 9 5 3 36 22 9 4 4 1 19 9 8 5 1 2 17 13 14 32
2 Dundee 17 9 4 4 28 20 8 5 1 2 16 9 9 4 3 2 12 11 8 31
3 Queen's Park 17 9 3 5 32 26 9 5 2 2 18 12 8 4 1 3 14 14 6 30
4 Greenock Morton 17 8 5 4 25 17 8 5 1 2 15 5 9 3 4 2 10 12 8 29
5 Partick Thistle 17 7 3 7 32 30 8 4 2 2 19 13 9 3 1 5 13 17 2 24
6 Inverness CT 17 6 5 6 19 21 9 2 4 3 10 9 8 4 1 3 9 12 -2 23
7 Raith Rovers 17 7 1 9 21 23 8 5 0 3 16 12 9 2 1 6 5 11 -2 22
8 Cove Rangers 17 4 6 7 25 28 9 4 2 3 14 9 8 0 4 4 11 19 -3 18
9 Arbroath 17 2 7 8 11 23 9 1 4 4 5 10 8 1 3 4 6 13 -12 13
10 Hamilton Academical 17 2 5 10 16 35 8 1 2 5 9 16 9 1 3 5 7 19 -19 11
  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