Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Alloa Athletic & East Fife face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
The visiting East Fife played their last game only three days ago, a League Cup match.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Alloa Athletic was eliminated in the group stage last season in the League Cup.When playing at home in the League One, Alloa Athletic have managed 6 wins, 4 draws and suffered 8 defeats from 18 games.
A nice win for Alloa last time playing, versus Montrose. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-1 with Henderson scoring for the victors. Henderson was absolutely essential when Alloa Athletic beat Montrose 4-1, scoring four goals.
Before that game, the 4-1 home victory against Montrose.There will be little rest for Alloa after this match as they are travelling to Buckie Thistle for a League Cup game in only four days.
Alloa Athletic has scored 26 league goals at home this season, in 18 matches. Alloa Athletic have conceded 30 from these games.
East Fife form and stats
East Fife's mission in League Cup last season failed in the group stage.East Fife have only collected 6 points from their away games in the League One, after 1-3-14 (18 played).
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League Cup home defeat versus Dunfermline Athletic with 0-2 on the scoreboard.
Preceding that, the 2-3 home loss versus Cove Rangers.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Fife as they have only managed to score 14 times from 18 away games in the league. The East Fife manager Crawford has some worries about the defense as 44 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Alloa Athletic four wins, two draws and East Fife four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Alloa Athletic missing players
East Fife missing players
| Alloa Athletic | East Fife | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 8 | 16 | ||
| 35 | 20 | Scored | S | 8 | 18 | ||
| 36 | 21 | Conceded | C | 20 | 46 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 43% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 56% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 1 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 8.5 | 6.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.2 | ||
| 35% | 51% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 23% | ||
| 7.8 | 6.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.4 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dunfermline Athletic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Buckie Thistle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Ross County | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Alloa Athletic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | East Fife | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cove Rangers | 36 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 73 | 32 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 43 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 19 | 41 | 79 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 36 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 68 | 37 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 16 | 31 | 72 |
| 3 | Montrose | 36 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 53 | 36 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 16 | 17 | 59 |
| 4 | Queen's Park | 36 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 51 | 36 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 51 |
| 5 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 49 | 57 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 27 | -8 | 45 |
| 6 | Falkirk | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 49 | 55 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 24 | -6 | 44 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 36 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 46 | 51 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 17 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 34 | -5 | 42 |
| 8 | Clyde | 36 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 39 | 62 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 36 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 26 | -23 | 39 |
| 9 | Dumbarton | 36 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 48 | 71 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 31 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 27 | 40 | -23 | 34 |
| 10 | East Fife | 36 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 31 | 70 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 44 | -39 | 23 |
