League Cup betting previews: Predictions and stats for the Brechin City - Dundee United game

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Competition: Scotland League Cup
Competition: Wed 07.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Glebe Park (4083 seats)

Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Brechin City & Dundee United face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Brechin City form and stats

Last season, Brechin's League Cup journey ended in the group stage.

With 2 League Two wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, Brechin City are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Brechin City who hasn’t won a league-game in their last eleven attempts. Their previous win was against Cowdenbeath, 298 days ago.

In their previous game, the manager M. Wilson led his Brechin to a defeat in the League Two match away at Cove Rangers. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Glebe Park. Preceding that match was a League Two defeat to Stirling Albion (0-2).

Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of a positive outcome are very slim. When Brechin City have been in this position before, they have won zero, drawn zero and lost four from four games. three defeats by at least two goals.

The manager M. Wilson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to St. Johnstone in only three days.

Brechin City aren't scoring a lot here at Glebe Park in the league, with only 12 goals from 13 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only -1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Brechin defense is not exactly impregnable. 25 goals conceded from 13 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Dundee United form and stats

Dundee's mission in League Cup last season failed in the group stage.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Livingston with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that match was the Premiership away draw versus Hamilton Academical that ended 1-1.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Dundee United given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed one match with one win as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won zero of these games by at least two goals.

A new game in only three days for Dundee United, the League Cup home match versus Peterhead. Busy days.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Brechin City zero wins, one draw and Dundee United five victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
3 goals
Dundee UnitedM. Reynolds
M. Reynolds
1 goals
Dundee UnitedA. Sporle
A. Sporle
1 goals

Brechin City missing players

Dundee United missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Brechin City Dundee United
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 11   Played P   12 25
4 2   Won W   5 8
7 3   Drew D   3 8
14 6   Lost L   4 9
32 10   Scored S   12 27
55 19   Conceded C   17 31
88% 82%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 92%
84% 82%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   58% 64%
68% 55%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   42% 40%
48% 18%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 24%
36% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 8%
72% 64%   BTTS BTTS   33% 48%
12% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   42% 24%
28% 36%   Failed to Score F T   42% 36%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2.6 2.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.4
3 2   Red cards R C   0 0
 
164 91   Total Shots T S   108 235
67 34   Shots on Target S O   31 71
39% 29%   Goal Efficiency G E   39% 38%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Brechin City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Kelty Hearts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Peterhead 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 St. Johnstone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 28 22 2 4 76 34 14 14 0 0 37 7 14 8 2 4 39 27 42 68
2 Edinburgh City 27 17 4 6 49 28 14 10 2 2 28 9 13 7 2 4 21 19 21 55
3 Elgin City 28 12 7 9 48 34 14 7 2 5 30 19 14 5 5 4 18 15 14 43
4 Cowdenbeath 27 12 5 10 37 35 14 10 2 2 23 15 13 2 3 8 14 20 2 41
5 Queen's Park 28 11 7 10 37 35 14 6 5 3 21 17 14 5 2 7 16 18 2 40
6 Stirling Albion 28 10 6 12 34 35 13 3 3 7 13 21 15 7 3 5 21 14 -1 36
7 Annan Athletic 27 9 4 14 33 54 14 6 4 4 24 22 13 3 0 10 9 32 -21 31
8 Stenhousemuir 28 7 8 13 32 48 15 3 4 8 16 29 13 4 4 5 16 19 -16 29
9 Albion Rovers 26 6 6 14 37 51 12 5 2 5 23 23 14 1 4 9 14 28 -14 24
10 Brechin City 27 4 5 18 31 60 13 2 3 8 12 25 14 2 2 10 19 35 -29 17

Brechin City:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Brechin City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Kelty Hearts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Peterhead 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 St. Johnstone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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