Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Cowdenbeath & Brechin City 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.
Cowdenbeath form and stats
Cowdenbeath was eliminated in the group stage last season in the League Cup.Cowdenbeath enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Alloa Athletic's place. The match ended 1-0 with L. Buchanan scoring.
Ahead of that match, Cowdenbeath lost 0-1 at home to Raith Rovers.Brechin City form and stats
They also participated in League Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.It might be tough going out on the road again for Brechin City, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Raith Rovers (placed 1st). As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Raith Rovers was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
A loss against Livingston was the result prior to that, in a League Cup home game.After this away game Brechin return home for a League Cup game against Alloa Athletic. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Brechin played one friendly in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these one match Brechin City scored 1 and conceded 4 goals.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Cowdenbeath won five, Brechin City won three and two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Cowdenbeath missing players
Brechin City missing players
| Cowdenbeath | Brechin City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 8 | 19 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Scored | S | 7 | 15 | ||
| 34 | 18 | Conceded | C | 20 | 54 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 56% | ||
| 4.3 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.2 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 6.5 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.1 | 6.3 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.5 | ||
| 27% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 23% | ||
| 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 | Livingston | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Cowdenbeath | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Alloa Athletic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 5 | Brechin City | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 0 |