Raith Rovers look to Stark's Park supporters for inspiration before Dunfermline Athletic match

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sun 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stark's Park (8473 seats)

Raith Rovers have harvested 18 of their 33 in total here at home. Will they win more points versus Dunfermline Athletic?

Insights:
  • Raith Rovers have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Championship

Both sides have had ample time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's have faith in that this will be an in-your-face fixture!

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Raith Rovers form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stark's Park as Raith Rovers have scored 16 goals to get 18 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Championship are 5-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Rovers are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 212 minutes without scoring a league goal. Zanatta was the last player to find the net.

The fans are hoping that Raith Rovers will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Championship game against Ayr United (placed 7th).

Prior to that, an away loss at Partick Thistle.

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 Rovers's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played seven games, won six matches, drawn zero and lost one.

Rovers have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stark's Park with 16 goals in 9 league matches. Raith Rovers have conceded 12 in these home matches.

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Dunfermline Athletic form and stats

There's been little loot from Dunfermline Athletic's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Championship. Dunfermline Athletic only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws.

Dunfermline Athletic might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Arbroath proved too strong as Dunfermline slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at East End Park.

Ahead of that game was the 3-3 draw at home against Queen of the South.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Dunfermline when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing zero and winning two games.

The visiting Dunfermline have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Dunfermline have conceded 13 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the squads met earlier this season; Dunfermline Athletic - Raith Rovers 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Raith Rovers victories, four draws and two Dunfermline Athletic wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Raith RoversD. Zanatta
D. Zanatta
7 goals
Raith RoversA. Connolly
A. Connolly
4 goals
Raith RoversE. Ross
E. Ross
4 goals

Raith Rovers missing players

Dunfermline Athletic missing players

Raith Rovers Dunfermline Athletic
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 2 8 18
9 5 2 Won W 0 1 2
6 3 0 Drew D 1 3 8
4 1 1 Lost L 1 4 8
27 16 4 Scored S 0 8 18
19 12 3 Conceded C 1 13 31
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 88% 83%
68% 78% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 62% 72%
37% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 61%
16% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 33%
11% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 11%
53% 78% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 62% 50%
26% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 12% 22%
26% 11% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 38% 44%
 
5.1 6.1 9.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 5.1 5.6
5.9 5.3 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 9.5 6.8 5.9
2.1 1.9 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.9
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
8.8 10.8 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 5 6.8 8.2
3.1 3.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.5 1.6 2.4
46% 47% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 62% 42%
 
8.7 7.7 6.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 11.4 9.8
2.9 2.8 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4 4.1
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Raith Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Raith Rovers have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Championship
  • Raith Rovers have the most scored goals (16) at home in Championship
  • Raith Rovers have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Championship
  • Raith Rovers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Raith Rovers 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 Arbroath 19 10 7 2 33 14 9 4 4 1 15 7 10 6 3 1 18 7 19 37
2 Inverness CT 18 10 4 4 26 14 9 6 0 3 12 7 9 4 4 1 14 7 12 34
3 Kilmarnock 19 10 3 6 24 14 9 4 1 4 11 8 10 6 2 2 13 6 10 33
4 Raith Rovers 19 9 6 4 27 19 9 5 3 1 16 12 10 4 3 3 11 7 8 33
5 Partick Thistle 18 9 4 5 30 16 9 5 2 2 12 6 9 4 2 3 18 10 14 31
6 Hamilton Academical 19 5 5 9 19 34 10 3 1 6 8 19 9 2 4 3 11 15 -15 20
7 Ayr United 19 4 6 9 18 32 10 3 4 3 12 14 9 1 2 6 6 18 -14 18
8 Queen of the South 18 4 5 9 19 26 9 2 3 4 7 8 9 2 2 5 12 18 -7 17
9 Dunfermline Athletic 18 2 8 8 18 31 10 1 5 4 10 18 8 1 3 4 8 13 -13 14
10 Greenock Morton 19 2 8 9 17 31 9 0 5 4 10 19 10 2 3 5 7 12 -14 14

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.