Home advantage could prove decisive in Dunfermline Athletic - Greenock Morton battle

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Date: Sat 07.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: East End Park (11480 seats)

With their 6 point advantage in the league table, Dunfermline Athletic fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Greenock Morton.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Dunfermline Athletic form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Dunfermline Athletic are 4-2-2 (wins-draw-losses). Ever since the Alloa Athletic game Dunfermline Athletic has been unbeatable here at East End Park producing four straight wins.

Dunfermline Athletic are returning here after visiting Ayr United in a Championship game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Before that game, the 5-1 home victory against Partick Thistle.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Dunfermline Athletic handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W3-D0-L2.

The Dunfermline Athletic fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 15 goals in 8 league matches. 9 goals have been conceded.

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Greenock Morton form and stats

Greenock Morton, who have the most conceded goals (21) away in Championship, have only collected 0 points from their away games in the Championship, after 0-0-7 (7 played). The manager D. Hopkin is not happy with the away performances in the Championship so far, as all 7 matches have been lost. It's all red in the travel logs of Greenock Morton, having lost seven matches in a row as the visiting team.

Greenock Morton play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Brora Rangers. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Brora Rangers.

We have checked recent matches where Greenock Morton have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eleven games were W4-D1-L6.

A new game in only three days for Greenock Morton, the Championship home match versus Dundee United. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Greenock Morton as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Greenock Morton's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 21 goals in 7 travels. There are big problems for the Greenock Morton defense as they have conceded 21 goals in 7 away games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Greenock Morton - Dunfermline Athletic 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Dunfermline Athletic victory, 5 draws and 4 Greenock Morton wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dunfermline AthleticK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
11 goals
Greenock MortonR. McHugh
R. McHugh
6 goals
Dunfermline AthleticK. Turner
K. Turner
3 goals

Dunfermline Athletic missing players

Greenock Morton missing players

Dunfermline Athletic Greenock Morton
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 8 3 Played P 2 7 14
6 4 2 Won W 0 0 5
4 2 1 Drew D 0 0 1
5 2 0 Lost L 2 7 8
22 15 8 Scored S 1 4 18
16 9 2 Conceded C 3 21 29
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 71% 71%
33% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 71% 64%
20% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 43%
13% 25% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 43% 43%
47% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 57%
27% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
27% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 57% 29%
 
5.5 6 4.7 Corners For (avg) C F 2.5 5 5.6
4 3.2 0.3 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 5.6 4.9
0.9 1.2 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.2
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
144 82 32 Total Shots T S 15 50 117
55 30 14 Shots on Target S O 3 17 41
40% 50% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 24% 44%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dunfermline Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dunfermline Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Greenock Morton have scored away.
  • Dunfermline Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest points (0) away
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest scored goals (4) away
  • Greenock Morton has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4)
  • Greenock Morton has the most conceded goals (21) away
  • Greenock Morton has the most conceded goals in the second half (19)
  • Greenock Morton has the the worst goal difference (-17) away
  • Greenock Morton have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Greenock Morton have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Greenock Morton have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Greenock Morton have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Greenock Morton 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 Dundee United 14 11 0 3 33 12 7 7 0 0 24 4 7 4 0 3 9 8 21 33
2 Inverness CT 15 8 2 5 22 18 7 4 1 2 13 9 8 4 1 3 9 9 4 26
3 Ayr United 14 8 0 6 28 20 7 4 0 3 12 8 7 4 0 3 16 12 8 24
4 Dunfermline Athletic 15 6 4 5 22 16 8 4 2 2 15 9 7 2 2 3 7 7 6 22
5 Dundee 15 6 3 6 19 21 8 4 1 3 9 9 7 2 2 3 10 12 -2 21
6 Arbroath 14 6 2 6 14 15 7 4 2 1 8 5 7 2 0 5 6 10 -1 20
7 Queen of the South 15 5 4 6 15 17 7 3 2 2 10 6 8 2 2 4 5 11 -2 19
8 Greenock Morton 14 5 1 8 18 29 7 5 1 1 14 8 7 0 0 7 4 21 -11 16
9 Alloa Athletic 15 3 5 7 15 26 8 2 2 4 7 14 7 1 3 3 8 12 -11 14
10 Partick Thistle 15 3 3 9 19 31 7 1 1 5 7 14 8 2 2 4 12 17 -12 12

Read more about Championship

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.