Open game expected at East End Park: Dunfermline Athletic vs Inverness CT preview

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 18.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: East End Park (11480 seats)

Dunfermline Athletic will challenge Inverness CT in this Championship fixture. Everything you can know about the match is here!

Insights:
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest scored goals (3) in Championship
  • Inverness CT is in the best form (5-0-0)

This could be an appealing match with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!

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Dunfermline Athletic form and stats

Two Championship home games so far for Dunfermline Athletic, who are yet to win here at East End Park. Only 0 points so far. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Dunfermline Athletic to get some points in this home game.

The fans are hoping that Dunfermline will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Championship game against Ayr United (placed 7th).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Arbroath (0-3).

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

Early season league goal statistics from Dunfermline Athletic's 2 home games: 0 goals, 6 conceded.

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Inverness CT form and stats

Inverness CT are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Championship.

Impressive finishing from A. Doran, K. Broadfoot and S. Sutherland secured the home win 3-1 against Partick Thistle in their previous game.

Before that, Inverness secured a home win against Buckie Thistle with the score 4-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Inverness playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were six Inverness CT wins, zero draws and two defeats.

Inverness CT have the goal stats of 2-0 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dunfermline Athletic two wins, two draws and Inverness CT six victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dunfermline AthleticN. Todorov
N. Todorov
2 goals
Inverness CTS. Sutherland
S. Sutherland
2 goals
DunfermlineK. O'Hara
K. O'Hara
1 goals

Dunfermline Athletic missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Dunfermline Athletic Inverness CT
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
4 2 1 Played P 0 2 5
0 0 0 Won W 0 2 5
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
3 2 1 Lost L 0 0 0
3 0 0 Scored S 0 2 7
11 6 3 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 20%
100% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
50% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 80%
50% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.8 6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 4.2
5.5 6.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 4.8
1.2 0.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.5 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8 7.5 8 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.5 8.6
2.5 2.5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 3.8
30% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 37%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest scored goals (3) in Championship
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the most conceded goals (6) at home in Championship
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (7) in Championship
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Championship
  • Dunfermline Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-8) in Championship
  • Dunfermline Athletic is in the worst form (0-1-3)
  • Inverness CT is in the best form (5-0-0)
Dunfermline Athletic Last season Inverness CT
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 14   Played P   14 27
10 9   Won W   5 8
9 3   Drew D   4 12
8 2   Lost L   5 7
38 24   Scored S   20 36
34 13   Conceded C   18 31
81% 79%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 96%
59% 57%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   86% 78%
48% 57%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   57% 44%
37% 36%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   21% 26%
26% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   7% 4%
56% 57%   BTTS BTTS   64% 63%
26% 36%   Clean Sheets C S   29% 26%
37% 29%   Failed to Score F T   7% 15%
 
5.5 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   4.5 4.8
5.7 5.7   Corners against (avg) C A   6.1 5.6
1.5 1.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.4 1.8
1 0   Red cards R C   0 2
 
9.3 9.8   Shots (avg) S (   9.3 8
3.9 4.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.4 3.9
35% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 34%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inverness CT 5 5 0 0 7 1 3 3 0 0 5 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 15
2 Kilmarnock 5 4 0 1 6 1 3 2 0 1 3 1 2 2 0 0 3 0 5 12
3 Arbroath 5 3 1 1 12 4 3 2 0 1 7 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 8 10
4 Partick Thistle 5 3 0 2 11 8 2 2 0 0 6 2 3 1 0 2 5 6 3 9
5 Queen of the South 5 2 0 3 7 8 2 0 0 2 1 3 3 2 0 1 6 5 -1 6
6 Raith Rovers 4 1 1 2 6 6 2 0 1 1 4 5 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 4
7 Ayr United 5 1 1 3 5 8 3 1 1 1 5 5 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 4
8 Greenock Morton 5 1 1 3 5 9 2 0 1 1 4 5 3 1 0 2 1 4 -4 4
9 Hamilton Academical 5 1 1 3 6 12 2 0 0 2 0 3 3 1 1 1 6 9 -6 4
10 Dunfermline Athletic 4 0 1 3 3 11 2 0 0 2 0 6 2 0 1 1 3 5 -8 1

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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.