Stumbling Vale of Leithen are desperate to pull off a small shock when they welcome enterprising Spartans in the next league round. It’s 18th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have modest confidence.
- Vale of Leithen have the fewest scored goals (7) in Football League
- Spartans have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Football League
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 Leithen and Spartans.
Vale of Leithen form and stats
Vale of Leithen's results here at Victoria Park in the Football League have been very modest with 0 victories, 0 draws and 9 defeats. Vale of Leithen are yet to produce one single Football League point here at Victoria Park, to the disappointment of their supporters. All 9 matches have been lost. All in all it has been a very rough period for Leithen who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 19 attempts. Their previous win was against Cumbernauld Colts, 119 days ago.
Leithen are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic.
Preceding that match was a defeat to East Stirlingshire (1-7).Leithen have scored 5 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Leithen's defense is seriously deficient as 64 goals have been conceded in these matches.
Spartans form and stats
Spartans's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Spartans collect 22 points from their 9 away matches in the Football League. 7 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat).
Spartans won their last game, 2-1 versus Celtic II played at home.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Stirling University.The Spartans manager D. Samuel has got the team scoring on the road, with 21 away goals in 9 league matches. Spartans have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Previous six meetings involving these teams: Vale of Leithen won zero, Spartans triumphed in six and we saw zero draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, zero matches with less than 2,5 goals.Vale of Leithen missing players
Spartans missing players
| Vale of Leithen | Spartans | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 19 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 21 | 37 |
| 109 | 64 | 30 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 89% |
| 79% | 89% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 63% |
| 68% | 89% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 56% | 37% |
| 53% | 78% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 16% |
| 26% | 33% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 63% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 32% |
| 74% | 67% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 3.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 6 | 5.6 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5 | 3.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 11 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 11.5 | 10.2 |
| 2 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.5 | 5 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 55% | 48% |
| 18 | 17 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5 | 6.5 | 8.4 |
| 6.5 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4 | 3.4 |
- All of Vale of Leithen's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Spartans have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Spartans have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Spartans have scored more than double the goals of Vale of Leithen.
- Spartans have the most points (22) away in Football League
- Spartans have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Football League
- Spartans haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Vale of Leithen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Vale of Leithen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Vale of Leithen have lost all their home matches so far.
- Vale of Leithen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vale of Leithen have the fewest points (0) at home in Football League
- Vale of Leithen have the fewest scored goals (7) in Football League
- Vale of Leithen have the most conceded goals (109) in Football League
- Vale of Leithen have the most conceded goals (64) at home in Football League
- Vale of Leithen have the the worst goal difference (-102) in Football League
- Vale of Leithen have the the worst goal difference (-59) at home in Football League
- Vale of Leithen 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 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 58 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 41 | 49 |
| 2 | Spartans | 19 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 16 | 38 |
| 3 | Rangers U21 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 51 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 35 | 36 |
| 4 | Civil Service Strollers | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 39 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 36 |
| 5 | East Stirlingshire | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 15 | 31 |
| 5 | Rangers II | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | Celtic II | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 6 | 22 | 30 |
| 7 | East Kilbride | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 19 | 30 |
| 8 | Gala Fairydean Rovers | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 35 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 29 |
| 9 | Berwick Rangers | 19 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 38 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 28 |
| 10 | Dalbeattie Star | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
| 11 | Edusport Academy | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 24 |
| 12 | Bo'ness United | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 23 |
| 13 | BSC Glasgow | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | -3 | 21 |
| 14 | Edinburgh University | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 28 | 51 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 24 | -23 | 16 |
| 15 | Cumbernauld Colts | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 29 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 21 | -14 | 15 |
| 16 | Stirling University | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 42 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 22 | -15 | 12 |
| 17 | Gretna 2008 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 58 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 34 | -39 | 7 |
| 18 | Vale of Leithen | 19 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 109 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 64 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 45 | -102 | 1 |