Balanced ball game between Alloa Athletic and Greenock Morton expected

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Indodrill Stadium (3100 seats)

Alloa Athletic hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 7 points and a 9th position in the Championship table. Visiting Greenock Morton holds 5th place with 14 pts.

Insights:
  • Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-14) in Championship
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Championship

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.

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Greenock Morton's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Greenock Morton have performed like this: Played ten matches resulting in 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats with the goal stats 19-5 (scored/conceded).

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Alloa Athletic form and stats

The story so far in the Championship for Alloa Athletic, who have the the worst goal difference (-14) in Championship, at their home stadium (Indodrill Stadium) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

In their previous game, the manager P. Grant led his Alloa to a defeat in the Championship match away at Dundee. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Indodrill Stadium. Before that game, the home loss against Raith Rovers with the scoreline 2-5.

A decent goal production from Alloa Athletic in their home games so far, with 8 goals from 5 league matches. As for conceded goals, Alloa's unpleasant statistic is 15 goals surrendered. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Alloa have let the opposition score 15 times, an average of more than three per game.

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Greenock Morton form and stats

As the visiting team in Championship matches, Greenock Morton have produced an overall stat of 1-2-2 so far.

Greenock are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Ayr United (placed 6th). Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Queen of the South.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Greenock Morton as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. As for defending, Greenock rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Greenock Morton - Alloa 1-0 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - two - five (Alloa Athletic wins - draws - Greenock Morton wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Alloa AthleticL. Buchanan
L. Buchanan
2 goals
Alloa AthleticK. Cawley
K. Cawley
2 goals
Alloa AthleticR. Thomson
R. Thomson
2 goals

Alloa Athletic missing players

Greenock Morton missing players

Alloa Athletic Greenock Morton
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 5 9
2 1 0 Won W 0 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 1 2 2
7 3 2 Lost L 0 2 3
10 8 2 Scored S 0 3 9
24 15 7 Conceded C 0 8 12
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 89%
80% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 67%
60% 80% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 33%
40% 60% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 22%
30% 60% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 22%
50% 80% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 33%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 20% 33%
40% 20% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 44%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 0.6 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
6.3 9 8 Shots (avg) S ( 4 5.6 6.1
2.2 3.6 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.2 2.7
45% 44% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 38%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Alloa Athletic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Alloa Athletic has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the most conceded goals (15) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the most conceded goals in the second half (14) in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-14) in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Alloa Athletic have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Alloa Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Alloa Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Greenock Morton have scored away.
  • Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Championship
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Championship
  • Greenock Morton have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Greenock Morton have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hearts 9 8 0 1 29 10 6 6 0 0 25 8 3 2 0 1 4 2 19 24
2 Dunfermline Athletic 10 5 4 1 20 13 5 4 0 1 10 6 5 1 4 0 10 7 7 19
3 Dundee 10 4 4 2 19 19 5 3 2 0 9 5 5 1 2 2 10 14 0 16
4 Raith Rovers 9 4 3 2 21 11 4 2 1 1 10 4 5 2 2 1 11 7 10 15
5 Greenock Morton 9 4 2 3 9 12 4 3 0 1 6 4 5 1 2 2 3 8 -3 14
6 Ayr United 10 3 4 3 14 13 5 2 3 0 5 2 5 1 1 3 9 11 1 13
7 Inverness CT 9 3 3 3 15 12 5 2 3 0 9 5 4 1 0 3 6 7 3 12
8 Queen of the South 10 2 1 7 12 25 4 1 0 3 5 11 6 1 1 4 7 14 -13 7
9 Alloa Athletic 10 2 1 7 10 24 5 1 1 3 8 15 5 1 0 4 2 9 -14 7
10 Arbroath 10 1 2 7 5 15 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 0 0 5 2 11 -10 5

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The Scottish Championship is the second level of the Scottish Professional Football League. Ten teams play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures in a season from August to May. The winner in the league table promotes to the Premiership and a playoff can promote one more team.