Delightful dogfight as daring Raith Rovers duel with determined Ayr United

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 30.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stark's Park (8473 seats)

This league campaign has been a rollercoaster for these contenders so far, ups and downs resulting in mid-table positions so far. Make ready for Raith Rovers - Ayr United!

Insights:
  • Raith Rovers is in the best form (3-3-0)
  • Ayr United have the most points from losing position (5) in Championship

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 Rovers and Ayr United.

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Raith Rovers form and stats

When playing at home in the Championship, Raith Rovers, who have the most scored goals (11) at home in Championship, have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 6 games.

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

In the match before that, Rovers hosted Inverness CT and drew the game 1-1.

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

A decent goal production from Rovers in their home games so far, with 11 goals from 6 league matches. Rovers have conceded 10 from these games.

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Ayr United form and stats

1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Ayr United in their Championship matches away.

The manager J. Duffy was unhappy after their last game, a Championship match played at their home ground Somerset Park. Ayr suffered a 0-1 loss to Kilmarnock (placed 1st).

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Arbroath.

Ayr 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, three draws and six defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

The attacking power of Ayr United when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Ayr struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 8 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

This was the final score when the squads played each other previously this campaign; Ayr United - Rovers 0-2. Last ten meetings featuring these participants: Raith Rovers won three, Ayr United were winners in three and we saw four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

RoversD. Zanatta
D. Zanatta
5 goals
Ayr UnitedT. Adeloye
T. Adeloye
4 goals
Raith RoversK. Benedictus
K. Benedictus
2 goals

Raith Rovers missing players

Ayr United missing players

Raith Rovers Ayr United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 1 5 11
5 2 1 Won W 0 1 3
4 3 0 Drew D 0 1 3
2 1 0 Lost L 1 3 5
18 11 3 Scored S 0 3 10
13 10 2 Conceded C 4 8 15
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
73% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 73%
36% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 20% 36%
27% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 20% 27%
18% 33% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
64% 83% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 36%
18% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 18%
18% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 55%
 
5.7 6.5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 2.4 3.6
5.9 5.5 6 Corners against (avg) C A 10 8.8 6.9
2.2 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.5 11.8 10 Shots (avg) S ( 4 4.8 6.7
4 4.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 1.8 2.2
41% 42% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 42%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Ayr United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Ayr United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Ayr United have the most points from losing position (5) in Championship
  • Ayr United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Ayr United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Raith Rovers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Raith Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Raith Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ayr United have scored away.
  • Raith Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Championship
  • Raith Rovers have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Championship
  • Raith Rovers have the most scored goals (11) at home in Championship
  • Raith Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Raith Rovers is in the best form (3-3-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kilmarnock 11 7 2 2 14 7 5 3 0 2 6 5 6 4 2 0 8 2 7 23
2 Inverness CT 11 7 2 2 13 6 6 5 0 1 9 3 5 2 2 1 4 3 7 23
3 Arbroath 11 5 4 2 19 9 5 2 2 1 8 3 6 3 2 1 11 6 10 19
4 Raith Rovers 11 5 4 2 18 13 6 2 3 1 11 10 5 3 1 1 7 3 5 19
5 Partick Thistle 11 5 2 4 23 14 5 3 1 1 10 4 6 2 1 3 13 10 9 17
6 Ayr United 11 3 3 5 10 15 6 2 2 2 7 7 5 1 1 3 3 8 -5 12
7 Hamilton Academical 11 3 2 6 11 23 6 2 0 4 4 12 5 1 2 2 7 11 -12 11
8 Queen of the South 11 3 1 7 10 15 5 1 1 3 2 5 6 2 0 4 8 10 -5 10
9 Greenock Morton 11 1 5 5 7 14 5 0 3 2 6 8 6 1 2 3 1 6 -7 8
10 Dunfermline Athletic 11 0 7 4 7 16 6 0 4 2 3 9 5 0 3 2 4 7 -9 7

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.