Game sneak peek for Championship: Queen's Park - Ayr United at Ochilview Park

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Fri 03.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ochilview Park (5267 seats)

A total of 22 sets of games have been played and both Queen's Park and Ayr United are at the right end of the league table. Let's get started!

Insights:
  • Queen's Park have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Championship
  • Ayr United have the most scored goals (46) 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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Queen's Park form and stats

20 points is a decent return from 10 Championship games here at Ochilview Park for Queen's Park. The data says 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Queen's Park, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

Queen's are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 193 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Savoury).

Queen's Park are returning here after visiting Inverness CT in a Scottish Cup match and winning with a 2-0 scoreline.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Dundee (0-3).

This is expected to be a close game, with Queen's Park perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Queen's Park as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Queen's has won 5 of these, drawn 4 and lost 0.

12 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Ayr United form and stats

Playing away, Ayr United have won 6 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Championship this season.

Two travels in a row for Ayr United, whose manager Bullen could celebrate last time after the Scottish Cup win against Cove Rangers.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Cove Rangers at their stadium, the result 5-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Ayr United in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Ayr, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

Ayr United have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 24 goals from 10 away matches. As for defending, Ayr United rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Ayr United have put together a streak of 18 consecutive games without defeat (13-5-0) when facing Queen's.

The most up to date archived history involving both these contenders is the Ayr United - Queen's Park 5-0 played previously this season.

Top Goalscorers

Ayr UnitedD. Akinyemi
D. Akinyemi
15 goals
Queen's ParkG. Savoury
G. Savoury
7 goals
Ayr UnitedJ. Mullin
J. Mullin
7 goals

Queen's Park missing players

Ayr United missing players

Queen's Park Ayr United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 10 1 Played P 1 10 22
12 6 0 Won W 0 6 11
4 2 1 Drew D 0 1 6
6 2 0 Lost L 1 3 5
44 20 2 Scored S 1 24 46
30 12 2 Conceded C 2 16 29
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
91% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
68% 70% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 90% 68%
41% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 60% 55%
27% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 32%
50% 70% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 64%
32% 30% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 27%
23% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 14%
 
6.4 7.5 7 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.6 5.6
6.5 6.4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5 5.4
1.3 1.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11 11.4 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7 9.9 10.7
4.7 4.7 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5.4 4.8
43% 43% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 44% 43%
 
11.6 12.4 11 Shots against (avg) S A 11 8.6 8.5
5.2 5.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.2 3.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Ayr United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Ayr United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Ayr United have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Ayr United have the most scored goals (46) in Championship
  • Ayr United have the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Championship
  • Ayr United have the the best goal difference (+17) in Championship
  • Ayr United have the the best goal difference (+8) away in Championship
  • Ayr United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Ayr United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Queen's Park have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queen's Park have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Championship
  • Queen's Park have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Championship
  • Queen's Park 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 Queen's Park 22 12 4 6 44 30 10 6 2 2 20 12 12 6 2 4 24 18 14 40
2 Ayr United 22 11 6 5 46 29 12 5 5 2 22 13 10 6 1 3 24 16 17 39
3 Dundee 21 11 5 5 36 25 10 6 1 3 21 13 11 5 4 2 15 12 11 38
4 Partick Thistle 22 10 3 9 42 37 12 7 2 3 29 18 10 3 1 6 13 19 5 33
5 Inverness CT 22 8 7 7 32 30 11 3 5 3 16 10 11 5 2 4 16 20 2 31
6 Greenock Morton 21 8 6 7 29 24 9 5 1 3 16 7 12 3 5 4 13 17 5 30
7 Raith Rovers 23 8 6 9 30 31 12 5 4 3 22 18 11 3 2 6 8 13 -1 30
8 Cove Rangers 22 5 7 10 30 47 13 5 3 5 18 22 9 0 4 5 12 25 -17 22
9 Arbroath 23 4 9 10 22 37 11 1 4 6 7 18 12 3 5 4 15 19 -15 21
10 Hamilton Academical 22 4 5 13 18 39 10 2 2 6 10 17 12 2 3 7 8 22 -21 17

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.