Arbroath - Queen's Park: Small difference between teams clash

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Fri 23.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Gayfield Park (5900 seats)

The visiting Queen's Park side should be favourites at Arbroath, as the guests own a 16 point supremacy from their 17 league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals (12) in Championship
  • Queen's Park have scored more than double the goals of Arbroath.

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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Arbroath form and stats

With 1 Championship win, 4 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Arbroath are certainly not brimming with confidence. Two draws in a row at home now for Arbroath.

Arbroath travelled for their previous game, a trip to Raith Rovers that ended 1-1.

Before that result, a home loss in the Challenge Cup against Dunfermline Athletic. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Arbroath have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Not much happening? Looking at this team's last 11 league matches, 10 have contained zero, one or two goals.

Arbroath aren't scoring a lot here at Gayfield Park in the league, with only {5 goals} from 9 games. Arbroath have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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Queen's Park form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

The regulars enjoyed Queen's's previous game versus Montrose, a Challenge Cup win (2-0) played at home.

That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Hamilton Academical in the Championship.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Queen's Park playing away and similar expectations, we found 8 relevant matches. Results were 3 Queen's Park wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 12 of this side's 16 latest league matches have ended with three or more goals.

The travelling fans enjoy Queen's's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 8 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Queen's Park have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Queen's Park - Arbroath 1-1 was the result in these squads' latest head to head game, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Arbroath three wins, one draw and Queen's Park six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Queen's ParkS. Murray
S. Murray
9 goals
Queen's ParkG. Savoury
G. Savoury
4 goals
ArbroathB. Linn
B. Linn
3 goals

Arbroath missing players

Queen's Park missing players

Arbroath Queen's Park
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 8 17
2 1 0 Won W 1 4 9
8 4 1 Drew D 1 1 3
8 4 1 Lost L 1 3 5
12 5 1 Scored S 3 14 32
24 10 3 Conceded C 3 14 26
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
72% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 94%
22% 11% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 62% 71%
6% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 41%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 24%
50% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 59%
17% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 24%
44% 44% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 38% 18%
 
5.6 5.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 5.1 6.6
4.8 4.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 9.7 7.5 6.9
2.2 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.4
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.3 9.4 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.6 11.1
2.9 3.3 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.5 4.7
23% 17% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 39% 40%
 
8.9 9.4 9 Shots against (avg) S A 12.7 11.4 11.8
3.8 3.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 5.4 5.3
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Queen's Park's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Arbroath have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals (12) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in Championship
  • Arbroath have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Championship
  • Queen's Park have scored more than double the goals of Arbroath.
  • Queen's Park have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Queen's Park 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 Ayr United 18 9 5 4 38 25 9 4 4 1 19 9 9 5 1 3 19 16 13 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 18 8 3 7 35 32 9 5 2 2 22 15 9 3 1 5 13 17 3 27
6 Raith Rovers 18 7 2 9 22 24 9 5 1 3 17 13 9 2 1 6 5 11 -2 23
7 Inverness CT 17 6 5 6 19 21 9 2 4 3 10 9 8 4 1 3 9 12 -2 23
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 18 2 8 8 12 24 9 1 4 4 5 10 9 1 4 4 7 14 -12 14
10 Hamilton Academical 17 2 5 10 16 35 8 1 2 5 9 16 9 1 3 5 7 19 -19 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.