Delightful dogfight as daring Inverness CT duel with determined Arbroath

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Tue 26.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Tulloch Caledonian Stadium (7750 seats)

1st spot in the Championship table for Inverness CT so far, a good performance. The match-going fans pray for more glory as 5th-placed Arbroath visit Tulloch Caledonian Stadium.

Insights:
  • Inverness CT have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Championship
  • Arbroath have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Inverness and Arbroath.

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Inverness CT form and stats

5 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Inverness CT, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Championship, have to build on here at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium in the Championship. Ever since the Raith Rovers game Inverness CT has been unbeatable here at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium producing five straight wins.

An away draw last time out for Inverness, facing Raith Rovers in a game that ended 1-1.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Greenock Morton in a game that was won 2-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Inverness CT's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played six games, won four matches, drawn zero and lost two.

Inverness are traveling soon after this match as the Championship match at Partick Thistle awaits in four days.

A decent goal production from Inverness in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 5 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Inverness CT have only let in 2 goals at home.

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Arbroath form and stats

Playing away, Arbroath have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the Championship this season.

There were no winners in Arbroath's previous match, a Championship home game that ended 1-1 vs Ayr United (placed 6th).

Prior to that match, the Arbroath manager D. Campbell faced defeat when travelling to Raith Rovers and losing 1-2.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Arbroath playing away, we found four games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and four home wins.

After this away game Arbroath return home for a Championship game against Dunfermline Athletic. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Arbroath have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 10 goals from 5 away matches. As opposed to that, Arbroath have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Arbroath - Inverness CT 0-1 was the score in these sides' latest head-to-head game, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Inverness six wins, two draws and Arbroath two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ArbroathM. McKenna
M. McKenna
8 goals
Inverness CTM. Gardyne
M. Gardyne
4 goals
ArbroathJ. Nouble
J. Nouble
3 goals

Inverness CT missing players

Arbroath missing players

Inverness CT Arbroath
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 5 10
7 5 2 Won W 0 2 4
2 0 0 Drew D 0 2 4
1 0 0 Lost L 1 1 2
13 9 4 Scored S 1 10 18
5 2 1 Conceded C 2 6 9
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
50% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
30% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 60%
10% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 50%
60% 60% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 40%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
4.8 5.8 4 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.8 5.5
3.7 3 2 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.4 3.7
2.1 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.6 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.7 8.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 6 9.2 10.8
3.3 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5.2 5.4
39% 38% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 38% 33%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Arbroath's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Arbroath have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Arbroath have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Arbroath haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Inverness CT have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Inverness CT have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Inverness CT have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Inverness CT have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the most points (15) at home in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Championship
  • Inverness CT have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Inverness CT have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Inverness CT haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 10 7 2 1 13 5 5 5 0 0 9 2 5 2 2 1 4 3 8 23
2 Kilmarnock 10 6 2 2 13 7 5 3 0 2 6 5 5 3 2 0 7 2 6 20
3 Raith Rovers 10 5 3 2 17 12 6 2 3 1 11 10 4 3 0 1 6 2 5 18
4 Partick Thistle 10 5 1 4 23 14 5 3 1 1 10 4 5 2 0 3 13 10 9 16
5 Arbroath 10 4 4 2 18 9 5 2 2 1 8 3 5 2 2 1 10 6 9 16
6 Ayr United 10 3 3 4 10 14 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 1 1 3 3 8 -4 12
7 Queen of the South 10 3 1 6 10 14 5 1 1 3 2 5 5 2 0 3 8 9 -4 10
8 Hamilton Academical 10 2 2 6 10 23 5 1 0 4 3 12 5 1 2 2 7 11 -13 8
9 Greenock Morton 10 1 4 5 7 14 4 0 2 2 6 8 6 1 2 3 1 6 -7 7
10 Dunfermline Athletic 10 0 6 4 6 15 5 0 3 2 2 8 5 0 3 2 4 7 -9 6

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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.