A brief look at the Championship standings imply an upper hand to Queen's Park when they come to Cove Rangers. Nevertheless; let's play before we award the win!
- Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Queen's Park have the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Championship
8-10-4 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Queen's Park when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those 22 matches are 30-26 (scored/conceded).
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.
Cove Rangers form and stats
The story so far in the Championship for Cove Rangers at their home stadium (Balmoral Stadium) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Cove Rangers drew their last game, 4-4 away at Hamilton Academical (placed 9th). A disappointing finish for Cove in their match versus Hamilton Academical as their 4-1 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 4-4 full time score.
2-2 away at Ayr United before that.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 Cove Rangers have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 4 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Lots of goals and action? Who knows the future, but we do know that 9 of the 11 latest league matches with this team has had three or more goals.
Cove have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Balmoral Stadium with 10 goals in 6 league matches.
Queen's Park form and stats
3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Queen's Park playing as the away team in the Championship this season.
Queen's Park delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Dundee (placed 6th) in their previous fixture.
Prior to that result Queen's Park won their away game at Partick Thistle. The scoreline was 4-0.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 hungry football fans should note that 9 of this side's 12 latest league matches have ended with at least three goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Queen's's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Queen's Park have conceded 10 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Queen's Park have put together a streak of 5 consecutive games without defeat (2-3-0) when playing Cove.Queen's Park - Cove Rangers 2-1 was the outcome when these two sides previously met, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Scully 5 goals | M. Megginson 5 goals |  S. Murray 5 goals |
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| Cove Rangers | Queen's Park | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 24 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 10 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 69% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 69% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 62% |
| 15% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 23% |
| 23% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 4.6 | 4.3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.5 | 6.3 |
| 5.5 | 5.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 8.3 | 7.4 |
| 2.1 | 1.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8.2 | 9.3 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.3 | 11.2 |
| 3.7 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.8 | 4.7 |
| 42% | 38% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 31% | 34% |
| 11.9 | 13 | 21 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10 | 11.4 |
| 5.3 | 5 | 11 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5 | 5.4 |
- All of Queen's Park's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Queen's Park have the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Championship
- 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 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 24 |
| 2 | Greenock Morton | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | Queen's Park | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| 4 | Inverness CT | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| 5 | Partick Thistle | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Dundee | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Raith Rovers | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Cove Rangers | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | -4 | 13 |
| 9 | Hamilton Academical | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -11 | 11 |
| 10 | Arbroath | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -9 | 10 |
