National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Cowdenbeath or St. Mirren that keep their silverware dream alive.
The hosts Cowdenbeath saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the League Cup. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Arbroath.
Cowdenbeath form and stats
Cowdenbeath was eliminated in the group stage last season in the League Cup.Cowdenbeath's struggle is real here at Central Park with only 14 points collected from 18 League Two games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-5-10.
The regulars hope that Cowdenbeath will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 0-3 away defeat in the League Cup fixture against Arbroath.
Erik lost again No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Cowdenbeath had similar winning odds as today, and found 6 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 6. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Cowdenbeath lost 1 similar game by at least two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Cowdenbeath as they are travelling to their away game against Edinburgh City in the League Cup. That match is four days after this one.
Cowdenbeath aren't scoring a lot here at Central Park in the league, with only 13 goals from 18 games. Cowdenbeath's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 21 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
St. Mirren form and stats
St. Mirren's mission in League Cup last season failed in the 2nd round.This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, a League Cup home loss versus Arbroath with 0-1 on the scoreboard.
A 0-0 draw at Aberdeen's stadium before that.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the St. Mirren manager Robinson as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Airdrieonians.
Head 2 Head
Cowdenbeath missing players
St. Mirren missing players
| Cowdenbeath | St. Mirren | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Won | W | 7 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 19 | 7 | Scored | S | 17 | 29 | ||
| 33 | 14 | Conceded | C | 14 | 29 | ||
| 88% | 77% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 60% | 46% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 8% | ||
| 32% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 40% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 32% | ||
| 4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 5.4 | ||
| 5.6 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 6.9 | 7.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 9 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 33% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 42% | ||
| 10.5 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.2 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Arbroath | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Edinburgh City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | St. Mirren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 5 | Cowdenbeath | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 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 | Arbroath | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Edinburgh City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | St. Mirren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 5 | Cowdenbeath | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 0 |
