Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Dundee & Falkirk face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Dundee's stadium, Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park, has a grass surface. Falkirk have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Falkirk when playing on grass; 6 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses from 18 matches. They have scored 20 goals in these games and conceded 26.
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.
Dundee form and stats
Dundee have reached this League Cup stage through battling and winning against Stranraer, Falkirk, Queen's Park, Hamilton Academical and Forfar Athletic. Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Only two Championship home games for Dundee so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
The home regulars witnessed a 0-0 draw against Falkirk in the League Cup last time out and are looking for a victory here.
Prior to that, an away loss at Ayr United in the Championship.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Dundee at home in the league. 6 on target and 5 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Falkirk form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Clyde, Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic, Hibernian, Dundee and Greenock Morton in order to reach 2nd round of League Cup. They also participated in League Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.Falkirk are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League One, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
It's another away match for the visitors, as they travelled to Dundee in their previous outing. The League Cup fixture ended 0-0.
That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Queen of the South in the League One.Falkirk have the goal stats of 3-4 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Dundee victories, two draws and five Falkirk wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Morrison 3 goals |   J. Mulligan 2 goals | Z. Rudden 2 goals |
Dundee missing players
Falkirk missing players
| Dundee | Falkirk | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 38 | 22 | Scored | S | 14 | 30 | ||
| 30 | 17 | Conceded | C | 11 | 30 | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 32% | ||
| 5.4 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 10.7 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 38% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 31% | ||
| 11.9 | 13.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.4 | 9.3 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ayr United | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | Partick Thistle | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Queen's Park | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Greenock Morton | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Dundee | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Hamilton Academical | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Raith Rovers | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 8 | Inverness CT | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 5 |
| 9 | Cove Rangers | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 3 |
| 10 | Arbroath | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Airdrieonians | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 11 |
| 2 | Dunfermline Athletic | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Edinburgh City | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 5 | Montrose | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Clyde | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | Alloa Athletic | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Queen of the South | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 5 |
| 9 | Kelty Hearts | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -10 | 1 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -12 | 1 |
