Christie Park: Huntly vs Buckie Thistle Football League preview

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Competition: Scotland Football League
Date: Sat 26.October
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Christie Park (1800 seats)

Struggling Huntly will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Buckie Thistle in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Huntly form and stats

Huntly's results here at Christie Park in the Football League have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Huntly's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-4 versus Forres Mechanics (placed 8th). 0-0 away at Clachnacuddin before that.

The Huntly fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 12 goals in 7 league matches. As for conceded goals, Huntly's unpleasant statistic is 19 goals surrendered.

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Buckie Thistle form and stats

The away performances of Buckie Thistle, who have the most scored goals (21) away in Football League, have been very solid so far with 6 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats in the Football League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. Buckie Thistle have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of eight victories in a row regardless of arena. A great winning streak in away games for Buckie Thistle as they have managed to win six matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Inverurie Loco Works have they travelled home without three points.

Buckie Thistle play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic. Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Nairn County in the Football League.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Buckie Thistle alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (21 from 6 played). It's not easy to score on Buckie Thistle as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last two meetings: 1 - 1 - 0 (Huntly wins - draws - Buckie Thistle wins). As for goals, 1 match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 1 had two or less.

Huntly missing players

Buckie Thistle missing players

Huntly Buckie Thistle
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
12 7 2 Played P 2 6 12
1 1 0 Won W 2 6 11
4 2 0 Drew D 0 0 0
7 4 2 Lost L 0 0 1
13 12 3 Scored S 7 21 34
31 19 7 Conceded C 0 4 10
83% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 83%
67% 86% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 75%
67% 86% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 50% 50%
42% 57% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 17%
58% 86% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 58%
17% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 42%
42% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4 0 0 Corners For (avg) C F 8 8 8
5 0 0 Corners Against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Buckie Thistle have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Buckie Thistle have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Buckie Thistle have scored more than double the goals of Huntly.
  • Buckie Thistle have won all their away games so far.
  • Buckie Thistle have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Buckie Thistle haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Huntly have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Huntly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Huntly have won significantly less corners at home than away.

Huntly
All Football League Scottish Cup
All Home Away Home vs top
21-09-19 SC Linlithgow Rose 1 - 0 Huntly
05-10-19 FL Huntly 3 - 2 Wick Academy
09-10-19 FL Huntly 0 - 0 Formartine United
12-10-19 FL Clachnacuddin 0 - 0 Huntly
19-10-19 FL Huntly 1 - 4 Forres Mechanics
26-10-19 FL Huntly 16:00 Buckie Thistle
02-11-19 FL Fort William 16:00 Huntly
06-11-19 FL Huntly 16:00 Turriff United
09-11-19 FL Forres Mechanics 16:00 Huntly
23-11-19 FL Huntly 16:00 Lossiemouth
Buckie Thistle
All Football League League Cup Scottish Cup Challenge Cup
All Home Away Away vs low
21-09-19 SC Buckie Thistle 4 - 1 Civil Service Strollers
05-10-19 FL Buckie Thistle 3 - 1 Forres Mechanics
09-10-19 FL Lossiemouth 0 - 5 Buckie Thistle
12-10-19 FL Buckie Thistle 2 - 1 Nairn County
18-10-19 SC Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic 2 - 0 Buckie Thistle
26-10-19 FL Huntly 16:00 Buckie Thistle
06-11-19 FL Rothes 16:00 Buckie Thistle
09-11-19 FL Brora Rangers 16:00 Buckie Thistle
23-11-19 FL Buckie Thistle 16:00 Inverurie Loco Works
30-11-19 FL Strathspey Thistle 16:00 Buckie Thistle

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Buckie Thistle 12 11 0 1 34 10 6 5 0 1 13 6 6 6 0 0 21 4 24 33
2 Fraserburgh 11 9 2 0 41 11 5 4 1 0 24 6 6 5 1 0 17 5 30 29
3 Brora Rangers 11 9 0 2 38 7 6 5 0 1 24 2 5 4 0 1 14 5 31 27
4 Inverurie Loco Works 12 9 0 3 33 18 5 3 0 2 14 11 7 6 0 1 19 7 15 27
5 Rothes 11 8 1 2 29 10 6 5 0 1 18 4 5 3 1 1 11 6 19 25
6 Nairn County 11 7 2 2 21 16 5 4 1 0 10 4 6 3 1 2 11 12 5 23
7 Formartine United 10 7 1 2 28 5 4 3 0 1 13 4 6 4 1 1 15 1 23 22
8 Forres Mechanics 12 5 2 5 34 24 5 3 1 1 20 6 7 2 1 4 14 18 10 17
9 Wick Academy 12 4 2 6 21 26 5 2 1 2 10 10 7 2 1 4 11 16 -5 14
10 Keith 13 4 2 7 17 41 5 1 1 3 7 18 8 3 1 4 10 23 -24 14
11 Deveronvale 11 4 1 6 16 19 6 2 0 4 8 9 5 2 1 2 8 10 -3 13
12 Strathspey Thistle 11 3 1 7 15 23 6 3 1 2 9 4 5 0 0 5 6 19 -8 10
13 Turriff United 12 2 2 8 16 35 7 1 1 5 8 23 5 1 1 3 8 12 -19 8
14 Huntly 12 1 4 7 13 31 7 1 2 4 12 19 5 0 2 3 1 12 -18 7
15 Clachnacuddin 11 1 2 8 10 26 6 1 2 3 8 10 5 0 0 5 2 16 -16 5
16 Fort William 10 1 0 9 9 38 5 1 0 4 6 14 5 0 0 5 3 24 -29 3
17 Lossiemouth 12 1 0 11 4 39 8 1 0 7 3 22 4 0 0 4 1 17 -35 3

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