Championship fixture guide: Arbroath against Inverness CT

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sun 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gayfield Park (5900 seats)

A total of 19 rounds of games are done and both Arbroath and Inverness CT are up there with the best. Let's start!

Insights:
  • Arbroath have the most scored goals (33) in Championship

This looks to be an entertaining game with lots of action and bustle as both teams are well recovered since they last played a game. Let's start!

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Arbroath form and stats

When playing at home in the Championship, Arbroath have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 9 games. Arbroath haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Raith Rovers, 78 days ago.

Happy days for Arbroath in their previous game, a Championship match away at Dunfermline Athletic (placed 9th) that ended with a 3-0 victory.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Greenock Morton.

This is expected to be a close game, with Arbroath perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Arbroath as a small favourite), we find six games. Arbroath has won four of these, drawn two and lost zero.

The Arbroath fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 15 goals in 9 league matches. From these home matches, Arbroath have conceded only 7 goals.

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Inverness CT form and stats

The visitors are W4-D4-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Championship. Inverness CT love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Inverness's previous game was their home loss versus Hamilton Academical (1-2).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Greenock Morton at their stadium, the result 6-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Inverness CT in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Inverness CT, two draws and two defeats.

Inverness are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 9 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Inverness as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The fixture history shows this score when the squads played each other earlier this season; Inverness CT - Arbroath 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - two - five (Arbroath wins - draws - Inverness CT wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ArbroathM. McKenna
M. McKenna
13 goals
ArbroathA. Dowds
A. Dowds
5 goals
Inverness CTB. McKay
B. McKay
5 goals

Arbroath missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Arbroath Inverness CT
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 1 9 18
10 4 0 Won W 1 4 10
7 4 1 Drew D 0 4 4
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 4
33 15 0 Scored S 1 14 26
14 7 0 Conceded C 0 7 14
89% 78% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 89%
74% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 56% 56%
47% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 44%
26% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 17%
5% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 6%
47% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 56% 50%
47% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 44% 44%
16% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 17%
 
6.8 6.9 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2 4 4.7
4.2 3.2 1 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.2 4.2
1.6 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.7 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.3 12.7 16 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.7 9.8
4.9 5.1 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.7
35% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 48% 39%
 
8.3 7.4 6 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7.2 6.5
3.1 2.3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1 2 2.3
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Arbroath have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Arbroath have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the most points from losing position (9) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the most scored goals (33) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the most scored goals in the second half (20) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the the best goal difference (+19) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the the best goal difference (+8) at home in Championship
  • Arbroath have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Arbroath is in the best form (4-2-0) in Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arbroath 19 10 7 2 33 14 9 4 4 1 15 7 10 6 3 1 18 7 19 37
2 Inverness CT 18 10 4 4 26 14 9 6 0 3 12 7 9 4 4 1 14 7 12 34
3 Kilmarnock 19 10 3 6 24 14 9 4 1 4 11 8 10 6 2 2 13 6 10 33
4 Raith Rovers 19 9 6 4 27 19 9 5 3 1 16 12 10 4 3 3 11 7 8 33
5 Partick Thistle 18 9 4 5 30 16 9 5 2 2 12 6 9 4 2 3 18 10 14 31
6 Hamilton Academical 19 5 5 9 19 34 10 3 1 6 8 19 9 2 4 3 11 15 -15 20
7 Ayr United 19 4 6 9 18 32 10 3 4 3 12 14 9 1 2 6 6 18 -14 18
8 Queen of the South 18 4 5 9 19 26 9 2 3 4 7 8 9 2 2 5 12 18 -7 17
9 Dunfermline Athletic 18 2 8 8 18 31 10 1 5 4 10 18 8 1 3 4 8 13 -13 14
10 Greenock Morton 19 2 8 9 17 31 9 0 5 4 10 19 10 2 3 5 7 12 -14 14

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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.