Delightful dogfight as daring Edinburgh City duels with determined Elgin City

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Competition: Scotland League One Play-Offs
Competition: Tue 11.May
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ainslie Park Stadium (5000 seats)

Elgin City have traveled here for an interesting fight against the hosts Edinburgh City. Prepare for the match with this League One Play-Offs preview!

It's no vacation for neither Edinburgh nor Elgin City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Edinburgh City form and stats

It's the first season at a new level for Edinburgh as they were promoted from League Two last season. Happy days that were secured through 11 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from 18 games. The team scored 16 goals at home last season and conceded 13. It will be interesting to see how they perform at this level.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Edinburgh have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won two times, drawn one and lost three.

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Elgin City form and stats

A job perfectly done for Elgin last season as they secured promotion from League Two. With a grand total of 9 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats the season objective was secured. Of these wins, 4 were in away matches.

Elgin are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and three defeats. From a total of six matches.

Head 2 Head

Edinburgh City and Elgin City have met before this season: Elgin City - Edinburgh City 0-1. Edinburgh City-Elgin City H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Edinburgh City six wins, Elgin City zero wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Elgin CityK. Hester
K. Hester
15 goals
Edinburgh CityJ. Campbell
J. Campbell
7 goals
Edinburgh CityL. Brown
L. Brown
5 goals

Edinburgh City missing players

Elgin City missing players

Edinburgh City Elgin City
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 100%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 10
3 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 3
33% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Edinburgh City Last season Elgin City
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
22 11   Played P   11 22
12 5   Won W   5 12
2 1   Drew D   1 2
8 5   Lost L   5 8
40 18   Scored S   16 39
27 14   Conceded C   13 28
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   91% 95%
73% 64%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   73% 77%
55% 45%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   55% 59%
36% 36%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   27% 32%
23% 27%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 23%
55% 55%   BTTS BTTS   45% 55%
23% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   18% 23%
23% 27%   Failed to Score F T   45% 27%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
1.6 2.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.7 1.6
0 0   Red cards R C   0 1
 
10.9 10.5   Shots (avg) S (   8.4 9.7
4.6 4.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.5 4.4
39% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 41%

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 Queen's Park 4 2 0 2 6 5 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 4 4 1 54
2 Elgin City 4 3 0 1 10 6 2 2 0 0 6 3 2 1 0 1 4 3 4 38
3 Stranraer 4 2 1 1 6 7 2 1 0 1 3 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 -1 38
4 Edinburgh City 4 1 0 3 3 5 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 -2 38
5 Stirling Albion 4 1 1 2 5 7 2 0 1 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 2 3 -2 36