Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Albion Rovers & Annan Athletic face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Albion Rovers's stadium, The Reigart Stadium, has a grass surface. Annan Athletic 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 Annan Athletic when playing on grass; 15 wins, 2 draws and 16 losses from 33 matches. They have scored 42 goals in these games and conceded 50.
Albion Rovers form and stats
Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the group stage.Two League Two home games so far for Albion Rovers, who are yet to win here at The Reigart Stadium. Only 0 points so far. Three consecutive losses here at The Reigart Stadium is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
Ahead of that match, Albion lost 0-2 at home to Brechin City.
The manager B. Reid will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Hamilton Academical in only four days.
Early season league goal statistics from Albion Rovers's 2 home games: 1 goal, 5 conceded.
Annan Athletic form and stats
Annan's mission in League Cup last season failed in the group stage.Annan Athletic are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League Two, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the League Cup stats, they have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss both home and away.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Stirling Albion's place.
It's early days yet, but Annan Athletic has scored 3 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Albion victories, one draw and five Annan Athletic wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Albion Rovers missing players
Annan Athletic missing players
| Albion Rovers | Annan Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 9 | 14 | ||
| 38 | 23 | Scored | S | 11 | 37 | ||
| 53 | 30 | Conceded | C | 23 | 47 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 52% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 72% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 52% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 12% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 40% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 175 | 100 | Total Shots | T S | 59 | 188 | ||
| 67 | 39 | Shots on Target | S O | 29 | 80 | ||
| 42% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 46% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ayr United | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Annan Athletic | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | Hamilton Academical | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 4 | Stranraer | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Albion Rovers | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Queen's Park | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Stirling Albion | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 3 | Stenhousemuir | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | Elgin City | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Annan Athletic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Stranraer | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Cowdenbeath | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
| 9 | Albion Rovers | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 3 |
| 10 | Brechin City | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -10 | 3 |