There's been ups and downs for these two teams so far this season, occupying positions near the middle of the League One table so far. Here's the Airdrieonians - Dumbarton latest:
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.
Dumbarton play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Dumbarton when playing on artificial turf are 5 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats from 17 matches. They have scored 15 goals and conceded 24 times in these games.
Airdrieonians form and stats
Airdrieonians's struggle is real here at Excelsior Stadium with only 5 points collected from 6 League One games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-3.
Airdrieonians's previous game was a League One match also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Dumbarton (placed 5th). The home side are looking to build on that result. In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting Forfar Athletic.
This is expected to be a close game, with Airdrieonians perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Airdrieonians as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Airdrieonians has won 6 of these, drawn 5 and lost 3.
The Airdrieonians fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 6 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.
Dumbarton form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Dumbarton, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Airdrieonians (placed 4th). A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Peterhead.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Dumbarton in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Dumbarton, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
Dumbarton find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 7 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. Dumbarton have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Dumbarton - Airdrieonians 0-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Airdrieonians won 4 games, 4 matches ended with a draw and Dumbarton has 2 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 7 / 3Top Goalscorers
 
I. Layne
6 goals
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C. Gallagher
4 goals
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C. Smith
4 goals
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Airdrieonians missing players
Dumbarton missing players
| Airdrieonians | Dumbarton | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 15 |
| 15 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 18 |
| 92% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 83% | 92% |
| 58% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 58% |
| 50% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 58% |
| 42% | 43% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 42% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 50% | 43% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 25% | 43% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 42% |
| 5.7 | 4.3 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 5.2 | 5.7 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.8 |
| 1.5 | 1.1 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Airdrieonians have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Dumbarton have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| 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 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 21 |
| 2 | East Fife | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 19 |
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 17 |
| 6 | Clyde | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 7 | Montrose | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | Forfar Athletic | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 10 |
| 9 | Peterhead | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 9 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 7 |