League One news and guide: Airdrieonians odds-on betting favourite to beat Peterhead

Airdrieonians and Peterhead should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Airdrieonians's stadium, Penny Cars Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Peterhead have grass 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 Peterhead when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 2 draws and 13 losses from 19 matches. They have scored 26 goals in these games and conceded 41.

Airdrieonians form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Penny Cars Stadium as Airdrieonians have scored 11 goals to get 12 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the League One are 4-0-2 (wins-draws-losses). Airdrieonians has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Penny Cars Stadium. We remember; it was Falkirk.

Airdrieonians are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Alloa Athletic.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Dumbarton in a game that was won 3-2.

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 Airdrieonians have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won seven times, drawn zero and lost one.

Airdrieonians have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Penny Cars Stadium with 11 goals in 6 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Airdrieonians defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Peterhead form and stats

Playing away, Peterhead have won 1 game, drawn 0 and suffered 4 defeats in the League One this season.

The attacking players of Peterhead have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 186 minutes. 231 minutes! That's how long the Peterhead goalkeeper Brett Long and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Peterhead played 0-0 against Montrose in their previous match.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Falkirk.

We have checked recent matches where Peterhead have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those seven games were one victory, zero draws and six defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Peterhead have scored 7 goals in 5 league games away. Peterhead have conceded 11 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Here's the end result when the sides met earlier this season; Peterhead - Airdrieonians 2-3. Airdrieonians-Peterhead H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Airdrieonians seven wins, Peterhead two wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

C. Gallagher 4 goals

R. McCabe 4 goals

S. Brown 4 goals

Airdrieonians missing players

Peterhead missing players