Falkirk fights Ross County in Championship battle

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Date: Sat 04.May
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Falkirk Community Stadium (9008 seats)

Struggling Falkirk will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Ross County in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Falkirk and Ross County should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Ross County play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Ross County when playing on artificial turf are 3 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats from eleven matches. They have scored 10 goals and conceded 15 times in these games.

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Falkirk form and stats

Falkirk's struggle is real here at Falkirk Community Stadium with only 13 points collected from 17 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly 2-7-8. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Falkirk, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.

In their previous game, the manager R. McKinnon led his Falkirk to a defeat in the Championship match away at Dundee United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Falkirk Community Stadium. Before that game, the home loss against Greenock Morton with the scoreline 0-2.

Falkirk have scored 16 goals here in 17 matches, not a lot. 25 goals have been conceded.

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Ross County form and stats

The visitors, who have the most scored goals (61) in Championship, are W8-D4-L5 on the road this term. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Ross County, as they have won on their previous two travels.

The supporters enjoyed Ross County's previous game versus Queen of the South, a Championship 4-0 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against Ayr United with the score of 3-1.

Ross County has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 29 goals from 17 games. Ross County have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Ross County - Falkirk 2-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Falkirk won 0 games, 3 matches ended with a draw and Ross County has 7 wins.

Top Goalscorers

B. McKay
17 goals / 3 assists
Z. Rudden
11 goals / 1 assists
J. Mullin
8 goals / 8 assists

Falkirk missing players

Ross County missing players

Falkirk Ross County
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
35 17 4 Played 6 17 35
8 2 1 Won 3 8 21
11 7 1 Drew 1 4 8
16 8 2 Lost 2 5 6
34 16 3 Scored 7 29 61
47 25 4 Conceded 7 22 31
94% 94% 100% Over 0.5 83% 94% 91%
77% 82% 75% Over 1.5 50% 71% 71%
34% 35% 0% Over 2.5 33% 59% 49%
14% 18% 0% Over 3.5 33% 41% 29%
9% 6% 0% Over 4.5 17% 18% 14%
49% 47% 25% BTTS 17% 59% 49%
23% 18% 25% Clean Sheets 50% 18% 37%
34% 41% 50% Failed To Score 50% 29% 23%
 
4 4.2 3.2 Corners For (avg) 5.3 5.5 5.6
6.1 5.6 7.5 Corners Against (avg) 5.3 4.9 4.7
2 1.4 0.8 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 2 1.9
5 1 0 Red Cards 2 3 5
Key stats this season:
  • Ross County is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
  • Falkirk is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

Falkirk
08-03-19 CH Falkirk 2 - 0 Ayr United
12-03-19 CH Ross County 2 - 1 Falkirk
16-03-19 CH Falkirk 1 - 1 Partick Thistle
30-03-19 CH Inverness CT 0 - 0 Falkirk
02-04-19 CH Queen of the South 1 - 1 Falkirk
06-04-19 CH Falkirk 1 - 2 Alloa Athletic
13-04-19 CH Dunfermline Athletic 0 - 1 Falkirk
20-04-19 CH Falkirk 0 - 2 Greenock Morton
27-04-19 CH Dundee United 2 - 0 Falkirk
04-05-19 CH Falkirk 14:00 Ross County
Ross County
19-03-19 CH Dundee United 1 - 0 Ross County
23-03-19 CC Connah's Quay 1 - 3 Ross County
30-03-19 CH Alloa Athletic 1 - 0 Ross County
02-04-19 CH Inverness CT 1 - 2 Ross County
05-04-19 CH Ross County 1 - 1 Dundee United
09-04-19 CH Ross County 1 - 0 Dunfermline Athletic
13-04-19 CH Ross County 0 - 0 Partick Thistle
19-04-19 CH Ayr United 1 - 3 Ross County
26-04-19 CH Ross County 4 - 0 Queen of the South
04-05-19 CH Falkirk 14:00 Ross County

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Ross County 35 21 8 6 61 31 18 13 4 1 32 9 17 8 4 5 29 22 30 71
2 Dundee United 35 19 8 8 49 39 18 11 3 4 29 25 17 8 5 4 20 14 10 65
3 Ayr United 35 15 8 12 49 37 17 7 4 6 24 18 18 8 4 6 25 19 12 53
4 Inverness CT 35 13 14 8 47 40 17 4 8 5 21 23 18 9 6 3 26 17 7 53
5 Greenock Morton 35 10 13 12 35 45 17 5 7 5 20 23 18 5 6 7 15 22 -10 43
6 Dunfermline Athletic 35 11 8 16 33 39 18 5 3 10 13 18 17 6 5 6 20 21 -6 41
7 Partick Thistle 35 11 7 17 40 52 18 7 3 8 25 27 17 4 4 9 15 25 -12 40
8 Queen of the South 35 9 11 15 41 45 17 5 7 5 26 19 18 4 4 10 15 26 -4 38
9 Alloa Athletic 35 10 8 17 38 52 18 6 2 10 13 21 17 4 6 7 25 31 -14 38
10 Falkirk 35 8 11 16 34 47 17 2 7 8 16 25 18 6 4 8 18 22 -13 35