Match preview Championship: Alloa Athletic - Inverness CT at Indodrill Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 19.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Indodrill Stadium (3100 seats)

Season ticket holders at Indodrill Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Alloa Athletic languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Inverness CT will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Alloa Athletic has the fewest points (1) at home in Championship
  • Inverness CT has the most points from losing position (5) in Championship

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a League Cup match only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Hibernian, was also a home game here at Indodrill Stadium. The away team is better rested.

Inverness CT play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Inverness CT when playing on artifical turf are 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat from ten matches. They have scored 19 goals and conceded 10 times in these games.

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Alloa Athletic form and stats

Alloa Athletic have played three Championship home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.

Alloa Athletic's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Hibernian. In the game before, an away victory in the Championship match versus Arbroath with a 1-0 scoreline.

The Alloa Athletic fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 3 matches. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Alloa having conceded 9 goals here at Indodrill Stadium so far. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Alloa have let the opposition score 9 times, an average of more than three per game.

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Inverness CT form and stats

Things could have gone better for Inverness CT in their Championship away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.

Inverness's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Dundee that finished 2-2. Before that one, a nice away victory 3-0 at Queen of the South.

Inverness CT are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 5 times in 3 away games so far. As for defending, Inverness rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 5 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Alloa won one game, four matches ended with a draw and Inverness CT has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four

Top Goalscorers

Inverness CTN. Todorov
N. Todorov
3 goals
AlloaK. Cawley
K. Cawley
2 goals
Inverness CTJ. Keatings
J. Keatings
2 goals

Alloa Athletic missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Alloa Athletic Inverness CT
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 1 3 7
1 0 0 Won W 1 1 3
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 2
5 2 1 Lost L 0 2 2
5 4 0 Scored S 3 5 13
15 9 2 Conceded C 0 5 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
43% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 71%
29% 67% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 43%
29% 67% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
29% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 71%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 29%
57% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 0.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.9 8.3 8 Shots (avg) S ( 18 10.3 7.4
2.3 4.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.7 3.4
31% 31% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 45% 54%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Alloa Athletic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Inverness CT's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Alloa Athletic has the fewest points (1) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the most conceded goals (9) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in Championship
  • Alloa Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Alloa Athletic have yet to win a game at home.
  • Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Inverness CT has the most points from losing position (5) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Inverness CT have scored more than double the goals of Alloa Athletic.
  • Inverness CT haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 7 6 0 1 21 6 4 4 0 0 17 4 3 2 0 1 4 2 15 18
2 Dunfermline Athletic 7 4 2 1 15 9 4 3 0 1 9 6 3 1 2 0 6 3 6 14
3 Raith Rovers 7 3 3 1 16 7 3 2 1 0 10 2 4 1 2 1 6 5 9 12
4 Ayr United 7 3 3 1 9 5 4 2 2 0 4 1 3 1 1 1 5 4 4 12
5 Inverness CT 7 3 2 2 13 9 4 2 2 0 8 4 3 1 0 2 5 5 4 11
6 Greenock Morton 7 3 1 3 6 11 3 2 0 1 4 4 4 1 1 2 2 7 -5 10
7 Dundee 7 2 3 2 10 14 3 2 1 0 3 1 4 0 2 2 7 13 -4 9
8 Alloa Athletic 7 1 1 5 5 15 3 0 1 2 4 9 4 1 0 3 1 6 -10 4
9 Queen of the South 7 1 1 5 9 20 3 1 0 2 4 8 4 0 1 3 5 12 -11 4
10 Arbroath 7 0 2 5 2 10 4 0 2 2 1 3 3 0 0 3 1 7 -8 2

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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.