Here's all you should know, and a little bit more, before the East Stirlingshire - Spartans game!
- East Stirlingshire have the fewest scored goals (8) in Football League - Lowland League
- Spartans have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Stirlingshire's stadium, Falkirk Community Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Spartans have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Spartans when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses from seven matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 10.
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.
East Stirlingshire form and stats
0-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Football League - Lowland League numbers at home for East Stirlingshire so far this season.
In their previous game, the manager Ure led his East Stirlingshire to a defeat away at Bo'ness United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Falkirk Community Stadium. As you see from the result above, Stirlingshire suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
Before that match, a defeat in the away fixture against Formartine United in the Scottish Cup.
East Stirlingshire are traveling soon after this match as the Football League - Lowland League match at Cowdenbeath awaits in three days.
The East Stirlingshire fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches.
Spartans form and stats
1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Spartans playing as the away team in the Football League - Lowland League this season.
There might be some fixture complaints from Spartans as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 1-2 against Civil Service Strollers.
Earlier, the Scottish Cup win away at Clydebank.
A quick return to home after this game, as Spartans are hosting Dalbeattie Star in the Football League - Lowland League only three days away.
Spartans find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 4 away fixtures in the league.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: three - two - two (Stirlingshire wins - draws - Spartans wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.
East Stirlingshire missing players
Spartans missing players
| East Stirlingshire | Spartans | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| 20 | 8 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 78% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 25% | 44% |
| 22% | 25% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 5.2 | 5.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 5.5 |
| 7 | 7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.5 | 6.5 | 4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 10 | 8.5 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 31% | 31% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 11 | 11 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11 | 10 |
| 6 | 6 | 8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4 |
- All of East Stirlingshire's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Spartans's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- East Stirlingshire have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- East Stirlingshire have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- East Stirlingshire have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- East Stirlingshire have the fewest scored goals (8) in Football League - Lowland League
- East Stirlingshire have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Football League - Lowland League
- East Stirlingshire have yet to win a game.
- East Stirlingshire haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Spartans have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Spartans have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Spartans have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Spartans 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 | East Kilbride | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 25 |
| 2 | Rangers U21 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 13 | 22 |
| 3 | Civil Service Strollers | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 20 |
| 4 | BSC Glasgow | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| 5 | Edusport Academy | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 18 |
| 6 | Tranent Juniors | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 7 | Celtic II | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 17 |
| 8 | Stirling University | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 17 |
| 9 | Bo'ness United | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 16 |
| 10 | Spartans | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 13 |
| 11 | Cumbernauld Colts | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | Berwick Rangers | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -3 | 12 |
| 13 | Gala Fairydean Rovers | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 19 | -9 | 11 |
| 14 | Hearts U21 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -1 | 10 |
| 15 | Cowdenbeath | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 8 |
| 16 | Edinburgh University | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 23 | -29 | 7 |
| 17 | Gretna 2008 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 16 | -11 | 6 |
| 18 | East Stirlingshire | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | -12 | 5 |
| 19 | Dalbeattie Star | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 | -30 | 1 |
