Annan Athletic and Edinburgh City supporters have their best supporter gear on for this first game week of a new League One Play-Offs season. Game on!
It should be mentioned that Edinburgh City play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Edinburgh City on artifical turf are 5 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats from 14 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 18-19. You can compare this with overall results below.
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.
Annan Athletic form and stats
In the previous season, Annan Athletic's league results were 18 wins, 5 draws and 13 losses, resulting in 3rd place in the League One Play-Offs. In these 36 matches they scored 64 goals and gave away 51. Appearing as the host team in the previous season Annan Athletic produced 7-4-7 (win-draw-lost) with 33 goals and 29 conceded.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Annan Athletic handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats.
Edinburgh City form and stats
Let's have a look at how Edinburgh City performed last season in the League One Play-Offs: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 10 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 43 and conceded 49 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 5 and lost 6 with 20/24 goals scored/conceded.
We have checked recent matches where Edinburgh have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 3 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Head 2 Head
These two sides met each other earlier on this season: Edinburgh City - Annan Athletic 2-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Annan two wins, one draw and Edinburgh City seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Wallace 13 goals | T. Goss 12 goals | A. Smith 8 goals |
Annan Athletic missing players
Edinburgh City missing players
| Annan Athletic | Edinburgh City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 1 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.2 | 10.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.5 | 10.2 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 9.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.5 | 10.8 |
| 2.2 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| Annan Athletic | Last season | Edinburgh City | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 18 | 36 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 10 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 64 | 33 | Scored | S | 20 | 43 | ||
| 51 | 29 | Conceded | C | 24 | 49 | ||
| 97% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 94% | ||
| 86% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 72% | 75% | ||
| 64% | 72% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 44% | 47% | ||
| 42% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 28% | 31% | ||
| 22% | 28% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 78% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 50% | ||
| 25% | 11% | Clean Sheets | C S | 28% | 28% | ||
| 14% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 39% | 28% | ||
| 3.7 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 3.2 | ||
| 5.4 | 4.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 9.9 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.9 | 6.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 2.8 | ||
| 39% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 42% | ||
| 10.8 | 10.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.3 | 11.1 | ||
| 4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.7 | ||
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kelty Hearts | 36 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 68 | 28 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 16 | 40 | 81 |
| 2 | Forfar Athletic | 36 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 57 | 36 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 21 | 60 |
| 3 | Annan Athletic | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 64 | 51 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 29 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 13 | 59 |
| 4 | Edinburgh City | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 43 | 49 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 25 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 24 | -6 | 52 |
| 5 | Stenhousemuir | 36 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 47 | 46 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 27 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 1 | 49 |
| 6 | Stranraer | 36 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 50 | 54 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 28 | -4 | 47 |
| 7 | Stirling Albion | 36 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 41 | 46 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 20 | -5 | 42 |
| 8 | Albion Rovers | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 37 | 58 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 32 | -21 | 39 |
| 9 | Elgin City | 36 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 33 | 51 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 30 | -18 | 37 |
| 10 | Cowdenbeath | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 49 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 28 | -21 | 29 |
