The host team, Spartans, should be the favourites in this match, but East Stirlingshire have exhibited both competence and guts. Learn more about the match!
- Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- East Stirlingshire have scored in all their away matches so far.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Spartans and East Stirlingshire.
Spartans's stadium, Ainslie Park Stadium, has a grass surface. East Stirlingshire have artifical turf 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 East Stirlingshire when playing on grass; 19 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses from 30 matches. They have scored 79 goals in these games and conceded 39.
Spartans form and stats
Spartans have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Football League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Spartans has won six games in a row. The Rangers U21 match was the last time out without a victory.
Happy days for Spartans in their previous game, a Football League match away at Bo'ness United (placed 12th) that ended with a 3-2 victory.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Dalbeattie Star and winning 3-1.The Spartans manager D. Samuel has got the team scoring with 6 from 3 home games in the league. From these home matches, Spartans have conceded only 2 goals.
East Stirlingshire form and stats
East Stirlingshire are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Football League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Stirlingshire's previous game was their home loss versus Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic (0-1).
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Civil Service Strollers.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, East Stirlingshire are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Stirlingshire have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Spartans-East Stirlingshire H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Spartans two wins, East Stirlingshire two wins, one draw. four of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Spartans missing players
East Stirlingshire missing players
| Spartans | East Stirlingshire | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 62% |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 38% |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 12% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 38% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 8 | 5.5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 19 | 12 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 22% | 17% |
- All of East Stirlingshire's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Spartans's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- East Stirlingshire have scored in all their away matches so far.
- East Stirlingshire have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- East Stirlingshire have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- East Stirlingshire haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Spartans have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- 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 | Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 19 |
| 2 | Rangers U21 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 18 |
| 3 | Spartans | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 18 |
| 4 | Dalbeattie Star | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 18 |
| 5 | Civil Service Strollers | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 17 |
| 5 | Rangers II | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | Berwick Rangers | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 |
| 7 | Celtic II | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 17 | 14 |
| 8 | East Stirlingshire | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | Gala Fairydean Rovers | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 10 | Edusport Academy | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | East Kilbride | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 12 | Bo'ness United | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 13 | Stirling University | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | -9 | 7 |
| 14 | Gretna 2008 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 22 | -12 | 6 |
| 15 | BSC Glasgow | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 16 | Cumbernauld Colts | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -6 | 5 |
| 17 | Edinburgh University | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 17 | -21 | 2 |
| 18 | Vale of Leithen | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -39 | 0 |