Dunfermline Athletic supporters put their faith in manager S. Crawford to deliver victory against Raith Rovers

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: East End Park (11480 seats)

It's advantage Dunfermline Athletic so far with their 2nd position in the Championship table, welcoming Raith Rovers who are placed 4th.

Insights:
  • Dunfermline Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Raith Rovers has the most points (8) away in Championship

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

4 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Dunfermline Athletic have to build on here at East End Park in the Championship.

The home team returns to East End Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Inverness CT (placed 7th) on their last time out; the Championship game ended 1-1. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Arbroath.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Dunfermline handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, zero draws and three defeats.

Dunfermline can score goals in their home matches. After 5 league matches they have found the net 10 times. Dunfermline Athletic have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Raith Rovers form and stats

As the visiting team in Championship matches, Raith Rovers, who have the most points (8) away in Championship, have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.

Rovers's previous game was their home loss versus Queen of the South (0-2). Before that one, a nice away victory 5-2 at Alloa Athletic.

Rovers are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, two draws and zero defeats. From a total of four matches.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Rovers are regular goalscorers on their travels. Rovers have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Raith Rovers - Dunfermline 2-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Dunfermline Athletic victories, three draws and four Raith Rovers wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Raith RoversD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
4 goals
DunfermlineE. Murray
E. Murray
3 goals
Raith RoversR. Matthews
R. Matthews
3 goals

Dunfermline Athletic missing players

Raith Rovers missing players

Dunfermline Athletic Raith Rovers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 5 9
5 4 0 Won W 0 2 4
4 0 0 Drew D 1 2 3
1 1 1 Lost L 0 1 2
20 10 1 Scored S 1 11 21
13 6 2 Conceded C 1 7 11
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 89%
80% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 89%
70% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 56%
50% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 44%
30% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 33%
80% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 44%
20% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 33%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.9 10.8 10 Shots (avg) S ( 5 9.4 9.8
4.6 5.5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.2 4.3
44% 36% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 52% 54%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dunfermline Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dunfermline Athletic have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Dunfermline Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Raith Rovers has the most points (8) away in Championship
  • Raith Rovers has the most scored goals (11) away in Championship
  • Raith Rovers has the the best goal difference (+4) away in Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hearts 9 8 0 1 29 10 6 6 0 0 25 8 3 2 0 1 4 2 19 24
2 Dunfermline Athletic 10 5 4 1 20 13 5 4 0 1 10 6 5 1 4 0 10 7 7 19
3 Dundee 10 4 4 2 19 19 5 3 2 0 9 5 5 1 2 2 10 14 0 16
4 Raith Rovers 9 4 3 2 21 11 4 2 1 1 10 4 5 2 2 1 11 7 10 15
5 Greenock Morton 9 4 2 3 9 12 4 3 0 1 6 4 5 1 2 2 3 8 -3 14
6 Ayr United 10 3 4 3 14 13 5 2 3 0 5 2 5 1 1 3 9 11 1 13
7 Inverness CT 9 3 3 3 15 12 5 2 3 0 9 5 4 1 0 3 6 7 3 12
8 Queen of the South 10 2 1 7 12 25 4 1 0 3 5 11 6 1 1 4 7 14 -13 7
9 Alloa Athletic 10 2 1 7 10 24 5 1 1 3 8 15 5 1 0 4 2 9 -14 7
10 Arbroath 10 1 2 7 5 15 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 0 0 5 2 11 -10 5

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.