Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Annan Athletic & Aberdeen 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.
Annan Athletic form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the League Cup for Annan, as the manager Murphy led his troops to eliminate Aberdeen, St. Johnstone, Queen of the South, Ayr United and Elgin City, and reach the 2nd Round. Annan Athletic was eliminated in the group stage last season in the League Cup.Only two League Two home games for Annan Athletic so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
The home fans saw a 0-0 draw versus Aberdeen in the League Cup last time out and are looking for a victory here.
Before that, Annan Athletic played out a League Two draw 2-2 when visiting Albion Rovers.Annan Athletic has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 3 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Aberdeen form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Peterhead, Dumbarton, Stirling Albion, Annan Athletic and Raith Rovers in order to reach 2nd round of League Cup. Aberdeen was sent out of League Cup in the 2nd round last season.It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Annan Athletic in their previous outing. The League Cup fixture ended 0-0.
A home win before that, celebrating 5-0 vs Livingston.As mentioned earlier, Aberdeen will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 3 wins (2 by two or more goals winning margin), 1 draw and 0 surprising defeats.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  B. Miovski 5 goals |  T. Goss 2 goals | B. Lussint 2 goals |
Annan Athletic missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Annan Athletic | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 34 | 20 | Scored | S | 21 | 44 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Conceded | C | 12 | 22 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 72% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 28% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8.5 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 13 | ||
| 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5 | ||
| 39% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 36% | ||
| 10.3 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 8.8 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dumbarton | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 2 | Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | East Fife | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | Stirling Albion | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Stranraer | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 6 | Stenhousemuir | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 7 | Albion Rovers | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| 8 | Forfar Athletic | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 9 | Annan Athletic | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 10 | Elgin City | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 3 |
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