Football betting preview: Forres Mechanics vs Brechin City

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Competition: Scotland Football League - Highland League
Competition: Sat 05.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mosset Park (4500 seats)

Forres Mechanics will cross fingers that their home comfort is enough to get at least a point from this hard meeting, vs fiery Brechin City.

Insights:
  • Brechin City have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Football League - Highland League

Both participants have had time to rest since their last competitive action. Let's look for an energetic match!

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Forres Mechanics form and stats

Forres Mechanics's struggle is real here at Mosset Park with only 11 points collected from 11 Football League - Highland League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-5-4. Mechanics are slowly digging their own grave here at Mosset Park with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Lossiemouth match.

The Forres Mechanics crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Nairn County here at Mosset Park.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Lossiemouth that finished 0-0.

Forres Mechanics has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Forres Mechanics are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (26 from 11 played). When Forres Mechanics hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Keith, Fort William, Turriff United, Strathspey Thistle and Lossiemouth), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Brechin City form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 6 wins, 0 draws and only 3 losses in the Football League - Highland League.

It's the second away game in a row for Brechin City, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Brora Rangers (placed 5th) last time out.

Before that, Brechin City secured a home win against Fort William with the score 4-0.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Brechin are regular goalscorers on their travels. Brechin City are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Brechin City - Forres Mechanics 4-1 was the scoreline in these teams' last head to head game, played this season.

Forres Mechanics missing players

Brechin City missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Forres Mechanics Brechin City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 11 2 Played P 1 9 21
4 2 0 Won W 1 6 16
8 5 0 Drew D 0 0 1
9 4 2 Lost L 0 3 4
28 13 0 Scored S 5 19 63
51 26 14 Conceded C 0 7 22
90% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 81%
67% 55% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 76%
67% 55% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 44% 71%
38% 36% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 22% 38%
62% 55% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 52%
14% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 38%
33% 36% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 10%
 
3.7 4.2 2 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8 8
7.3 6.4 5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 8.6 3.5 Shots (avg) S ( 0 16 16
3.1 3.2 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 5
36% 31% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 20%
 
13.4 12.2 16 Shots against (avg) S A 0 1 1
6.3 6.6 10 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1 1
Key stats in Football League - Highland League this season:
  • Brechin City have created more than twice as many corners as Forres Mechanics.
  • Brechin City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Brechin City have scored more than double the goals of Forres Mechanics.
  • Brechin City have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Football League - Highland League
  • Brechin City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Brechin City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fraserburgh 20 18 1 1 85 16 10 9 0 1 50 5 10 9 1 0 35 11 69 55
2 Buckie Thistle 20 16 1 3 79 15 11 10 1 0 51 6 9 6 0 3 28 9 64 49
3 Brechin City 21 16 1 4 63 22 12 10 1 1 44 15 9 6 0 3 19 7 41 49
4 Inverurie Loco Works 22 14 5 3 59 28 13 10 2 1 37 16 9 4 3 2 22 12 31 47
5 Brora Rangers 20 15 1 4 71 20 10 8 0 2 33 6 10 7 1 2 38 14 51 46
6 Rothes 20 13 5 2 50 17 9 6 3 0 22 5 11 7 2 2 28 12 33 44
7 Formartine United 22 13 3 6 53 36 11 8 1 2 36 18 11 5 2 4 17 18 17 42
8 Wick Academy 24 9 7 8 44 53 13 4 3 6 19 31 11 5 4 2 25 22 -9 34
9 Nairn County 22 7 6 9 41 48 11 1 4 6 15 25 11 6 2 3 26 23 -7 27
10 Deveronvale 21 6 4 11 43 53 9 4 1 4 32 19 12 2 3 7 11 34 -10 22
11 Clachnacuddin 21 6 4 11 35 47 11 3 1 7 18 25 10 3 3 4 17 22 -12 22
12 Huntly 21 6 3 12 35 46 11 3 2 6 17 21 10 3 1 6 18 25 -11 21
13 Keith 21 6 3 12 24 55 9 3 1 5 12 20 12 3 2 7 12 35 -31 21
14 Forres Mechanics 21 4 8 9 28 51 11 2 5 4 13 26 10 2 3 5 15 25 -23 20
15 Lossiemouth 23 5 4 14 21 56 12 3 4 5 12 21 11 2 0 9 9 35 -35 19
16 Strathspey Thistle 20 2 4 14 29 73 9 2 2 5 16 25 11 0 2 9 13 48 -44 10
17 Turriff United 23 2 3 18 20 68 11 2 1 8 12 35 12 0 2 10 8 33 -48 9
18 Fort William 18 0 1 17 19 95 7 0 0 7 7 34 11 0 1 10 12 61 -76 1

Brechin City:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fraserburgh 20 18 1 1 85 16 10 9 0 1 50 5 10 9 1 0 35 11 69 55
2 Buckie Thistle 20 16 1 3 79 15 11 10 1 0 51 6 9 6 0 3 28 9 64 49
3 Brechin City 21 16 1 4 63 22 12 10 1 1 44 15 9 6 0 3 19 7 41 49
4 Inverurie Loco Works 22 14 5 3 59 28 13 10 2 1 37 16 9 4 3 2 22 12 31 47
5 Brora Rangers 20 15 1 4 71 20 10 8 0 2 33 6 10 7 1 2 38 14 51 46
6 Rothes 20 13 5 2 50 17 9 6 3 0 22 5 11 7 2 2 28 12 33 44
7 Formartine United 22 13 3 6 53 36 11 8 1 2 36 18 11 5 2 4 17 18 17 42
8 Wick Academy 24 9 7 8 44 53 13 4 3 6 19 31 11 5 4 2 25 22 -9 34
9 Nairn County 22 7 6 9 41 48 11 1 4 6 15 25 11 6 2 3 26 23 -7 27
10 Deveronvale 21 6 4 11 43 53 9 4 1 4 32 19 12 2 3 7 11 34 -10 22
11 Clachnacuddin 21 6 4 11 35 47 11 3 1 7 18 25 10 3 3 4 17 22 -12 22
12 Huntly 21 6 3 12 35 46 11 3 2 6 17 21 10 3 1 6 18 25 -11 21
13 Keith 21 6 3 12 24 55 9 3 1 5 12 20 12 3 2 7 12 35 -31 21
14 Forres Mechanics 21 4 8 9 28 51 11 2 5 4 13 26 10 2 3 5 15 25 -23 20
15 Lossiemouth 23 5 4 14 21 56 12 3 4 5 12 21 11 2 0 9 9 35 -35 19
16 Strathspey Thistle 20 2 4 14 29 73 9 2 2 5 16 25 11 0 2 9 13 48 -44 10
17 Turriff United 23 2 3 18 20 68 11 2 1 8 12 35 12 0 2 10 8 33 -48 9
18 Fort William 18 0 1 17 19 95 7 0 0 7 7 34 11 0 1 10 12 61 -76 1

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