Arbroath - Inverness CT: Small difference between teams clash

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 07.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gayfield Park (5900 seats)

Arbroath are unlocking their away locker room to Inverness CT for another important game after their 4-2 result vs 2nd-placed Dundee.

Insights:
  • Arbroath have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the most points from losing position (9) in Championship

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Arbroath form and stats

Arbroath's results here at Gayfield Park in the Championship have been very modest with 1 victory, 4 draws and 5 defeats. When Arbroath hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Hamilton Academical, Arbroath and Cove Rangers), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

Arbroath are returning here after visiting Dundee and winning with a 4-2 scoreline. O'Brien, Hamilton, Hilson (2) and McKenna scored the goal(s). A huge relief, as that was the first three points in the league after going winless in seven consecutive games. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Before that game, the home loss against Queen's Park with the scoreline 1-4.

Trouble hitting the net? In this club's last 13 league games, 10 have produced two goals or less.

Arbroath aren't scoring a lot here at Gayfield Park in the league, with only {6 goals} from 10 games. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 14 goals have been conceded. Arbroath has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Inverness CT form and stats

4-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Inverness CT in their Championship matches away. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Inverness CT are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

Inverness had fun at their own home (Gayfield Park) last time out, beating Cove Rangers 6-1. McKay and Devine scored. Yippee; their first victory in the league after eight rounds not winning. As mentioned above, Inverness CT was the only team on the pitch versus Cove Rangers in their previous game, winning 6-1. This could be a tougher task. McKay certainly enjoyed Inverness CT's last game versus Cove Rangers, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 6-1 victory.

Prior to that match, the Inverness CT manager Dodds faced defeat when travelling to Partick Thistle and losing 1-5.

Inverness are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 9 games (in the league). In the opposite end, Inverness CT have conceded 17 goals in their away games. It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Arbroath have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (0-4-0) when playing Inverness CT.

Inverness CT - Arbroath 1-1 was the end result in these teams' previous H2H fixture, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Inverness CTB. McKay
B. McKay
8 goals
Inverness CTN. Shaw
N. Shaw
4 goals
ArbroathC. Hamilton
C. Hamilton
3 goals

Arbroath missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Arbroath Inverness CT
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 1 9 19
3 1 1 Won W 1 4 7
8 4 1 Drew D 0 1 5
9 5 0 Lost L 0 4 7
17 6 2 Scored S 1 10 26
30 14 1 Conceded C 0 17 27
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
75% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 63%
30% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 56% 42%
15% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 44% 37%
15% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 26%
55% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 53%
15% 20% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 44% 26%
40% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 26%
 
5.7 5.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.4 4.2
4.8 4.5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 8.4 7.1
2.3 2.4 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 1.6 1.3
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.3 9.3 7.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6 7 7.5
3 3.3 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.9 3.3
28% 18% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 41%
 
9.2 10 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10 12.3 9.2
4 4.1 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.7 4.2
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Arbroath have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Arbroath have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest matches over the total-line (6) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Championship
  • Arbroath have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Inverness CT have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Inverness CT have the most points from losing position (9) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have won significantly less corners away then at 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 Queen's Park 19 11 3 5 38 27 10 6 2 2 20 12 9 5 1 3 18 15 11 36
2 Dundee 19 10 4 5 32 24 9 5 1 3 18 13 10 5 3 2 14 11 8 34
3 Ayr United 19 9 5 5 38 27 10 4 4 2 19 11 9 5 1 3 19 16 11 32
4 Greenock Morton 18 8 6 4 27 19 8 5 1 2 15 5 10 3 5 2 12 14 8 30
5 Partick Thistle 20 9 3 8 40 35 10 6 2 2 27 16 10 3 1 6 13 19 5 30
6 Raith Rovers 20 8 3 9 25 26 10 5 2 3 19 15 10 3 1 6 6 11 -1 27
7 Inverness CT 19 7 5 7 26 27 10 3 4 3 16 10 9 4 1 4 10 17 -1 26
8 Cove Rangers 19 5 6 8 28 34 10 5 2 3 16 9 9 0 4 5 12 25 -6 21
9 Arbroath 20 3 8 9 17 30 10 1 4 5 6 14 10 2 4 4 11 16 -13 17
10 Hamilton Academical 19 2 5 12 16 38 9 1 2 6 9 17 10 1 3 6 7 21 -22 11

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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.