Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Brechin City & Alloa 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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Alloa Athletic have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 4-9-20 (win-draw-loss) from 33 matches.
Brechin City form and stats
Brechin City participated in League Cup the last season, where they reached the group stage.This match is a League Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses in this competition. With 16 home League Two games in a row without a win, the Brechin City fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Cowdenbeath game long ago, can be stopped today.
Brechin are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-3 away versus Cowdenbeath.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Raith Rovers (0-4).The match schedule is unforgiving for Brechin as they have a new game in only three days, a Football League match thankfully also at home. Turriff United are visiting.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Alloa Athletic so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-9 (win-draw-lose).
Impressive finishing from S. Taggart and A. Trouten secured the home win 2-1 against Livingston in their previous game. A. Trouten came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Livingston last time out, making the manager B. Ferguson feel like a tactical genius.
The game before that, in the League Cup, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Cowdenbeath.Alloa has another fixture away, a League Cup game, against Raith Rovers in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The attacking power of Alloa when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 13 league matches away. Alloa have conceded 31 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Brechin four wins, zero draws and Alloa Athletic six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Brechin City missing players
Alloa Athletic missing players
| Brechin City | Alloa Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 20 | 11 | Lost | L | 6 | 13 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Scored | S | 11 | 30 | ||
| 57 | 34 | Conceded | C | 25 | 52 | ||
| 92% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 89% | 72% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 89% | 80% | ||
| 12% | 14% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 57% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 16% | ||
| 3.3 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.9 | 3.7 | ||
| 6.8 | 6.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 6.9 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | ||
| 6.3 | 7.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.2 | 7 | ||
| 2.7 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.9 | ||
| 22% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 43% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Raith Rovers | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Cowdenbeath | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Livingston | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Alloa Athletic | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Brechin City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -8 | 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 | Hearts | 27 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 63 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 44 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 39 | 57 |
| 2 | Dundee | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 49 | 40 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 45 |
| 3 | Raith Rovers | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 43 |
| 4 | Dunfermline Athletic | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 38 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 39 |
| 5 | Inverness CT | 27 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 36 | 31 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 36 |
| 6 | Queen of the South | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 38 | 51 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 27 | -13 | 32 |
| 7 | Arbroath | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 23 | -6 | 30 |
| 8 | Ayr United | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 31 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 25 | -6 | 29 |
| 9 | Greenock Morton | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 29 |
| 10 | Alloa Athletic | 27 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 60 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 31 | -30 | 22 |