Football League - Lowland League preview: Home team members predicting a win when Rangers U21 host East Stirlingshire

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Competition: Scotland Football League - Lowland League
Competition: Tue 18.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)

Rangers U21 are expected winners of this home match versus East Stirlingshire, if the league positions are thought to provide some clues. Or are we looking at a possible?

Insights:
  • Rangers U21 have the most scored goals (35) in Football League - Lowland League
  • East Stirlingshire have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Football League - Lowland League

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a South Challenge Cup game only three days ago. That game, against Stirling University, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for East Stirlingshire.

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Rangers U21 form and stats

Perfect Football League - Lowland League season at home so far for Rangers U21 3 wins from 3 appearances. days ago.

A nice win for Rangers U21 last time playing, versus Edinburgh University. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1.

Before that match, a win away at Hearts U21.

Everyone expects Rangers U21 to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 15 games: 12 home wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Rangers U21 have won with at least two goals margin 9 times in similar situations.

Some stats: A review of the 11 latest league matches reveals that 9 of them had goals from both teams.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Berwick Rangers are coming to town in four days.

Rangers U21 has the goal stats of 9-3 (for/against) from 3 league fixtures.

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East Stirlingshire form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for East Stirlingshire so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 0-4-3 (win-draw-lose).

Two away games in a row for Stirlingshire, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 vs Stirling University in the South Challenge Cup. That win was so crucial for this team, after a painful period of twelve league matches in a row not winning.

That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Gretna 2008 in the Football League - Lowland League.

Nobody expects East Stirlingshire to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath 33 times before, with the overall statistics of won 16, draw 8 and lost 9. When defeated, 6 matches have been lost by two or more goals.

Lots of goals? This side have played 6 consecutive league matches all featuring three or more goals (over 2.5 goals).

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that East Stirlingshire concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one U21 victories, zero draws and one East Stirlingshire win. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Rangers U21 missing players

East Stirlingshire missing players

Rangers U21 East Stirlingshire
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 3 2 Played P 3 7 13
9 3 2 Won W 0 0 1
1 0 0 Drew D 3 4 6
1 0 0 Lost L 0 3 6
35 9 6 Scored S 4 5 14
19 3 3 Conceded C 4 19 32
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
91% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 57% 62%
64% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 43% 54%
55% 33% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 31%
82% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 57% 69%
18% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 43% 31%
 
5.7 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 4.7
5 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 7.3
2.7 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.3 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 6.8
6.7 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 4.3
45% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 35%
 
9.7 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 11.8
6 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 6.7
Key stats in Football League - Lowland League this season:
  • All of East Stirlingshire's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Rangers U21's home-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 the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Football League - Lowland League
  • East Stirlingshire have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • East Stirlingshire have yet to win a game away.
  • East Stirlingshire haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rangers U21 have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Rangers U21 have scored more than double the goals of East Stirlingshire.
  • Rangers U21 have the most scored goals (35) in Football League - Lowland League
  • Rangers U21 have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Football League - Lowland League
  • Rangers U21 have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Rangers U21 have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Rangers U21 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 14 9 2 3 31 20 8 4 1 3 16 10 6 5 1 0 15 10 11 29
2 Rangers U21 11 9 1 1 35 19 3 3 0 0 9 3 8 6 1 1 26 16 16 28
3 BSC Glasgow 13 9 1 3 31 20 8 6 1 1 20 10 5 3 0 2 11 10 11 28
4 Spartans 13 8 1 4 30 15 7 5 1 1 20 6 6 3 0 3 10 9 15 25
5 Civil Service Strollers 13 7 4 2 27 14 8 4 2 2 14 11 5 3 2 0 13 3 13 25
6 Stirling University 14 7 3 4 31 21 8 5 1 2 20 6 6 2 2 2 11 15 10 24
7 Tranent Juniors 13 7 3 3 23 16 7 4 1 2 13 9 6 3 2 1 10 7 7 24
8 Celtic II 11 7 2 2 29 11 4 3 0 1 15 3 7 4 2 1 14 8 18 23
9 Edusport Academy 13 5 4 4 31 24 7 3 3 1 21 11 6 2 1 3 10 13 7 19
10 Bo'ness United 13 5 3 5 27 15 8 3 2 3 18 10 5 2 1 2 9 5 12 18
11 Berwick Rangers 12 5 2 5 17 21 6 3 2 1 11 8 6 2 0 4 6 13 -4 17
12 Gala Fairydean Rovers 13 5 2 6 20 29 3 1 0 2 5 6 10 4 2 4 15 23 -9 17
13 Gretna 2008 13 5 0 8 25 34 6 3 0 3 15 13 7 2 0 5 10 21 -9 15
14 Cowdenbeath 13 4 2 7 20 19 7 3 1 3 13 7 6 1 1 4 7 12 1 14
15 Cumbernauld Colts 13 4 0 9 24 30 6 1 0 5 10 18 7 3 0 4 14 12 -6 12
16 Hearts U21 13 2 4 7 22 25 6 1 3 2 14 10 7 1 1 5 8 15 -3 10
17 East Stirlingshire 13 1 6 6 14 32 6 1 2 3 9 13 7 0 4 3 5 19 -18 9
18 Edinburgh University 14 2 1 11 14 49 7 0 1 6 5 23 7 2 0 5 9 26 -35 7
19 Dalbeattie Star 14 1 1 12 13 50 8 1 0 7 11 28 6 0 1 5 2 22 -37 4