League One preview: Can Airdrieonians edge out victory against Peterhead?

It's no vacation for neither Airdrieonians nor Peterhead 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.

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; 3 wins, 1 draw and 9 losses from 13 matches. They have scored 21 goals in these games and conceded 33.

Airdrieonians form and stats

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 twelve games) they have won eight times, drawn zero and lost four.

Airdrieonians have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and four practice matches played. These training games have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Airdrieonians scored 6 goals and let in 4 goals during these four games.

Last season, Airdrieonians's league statistics were 14 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the League One. Over these 28 matches they scored 38 goals and conceded 27. Playing at home last season Airdrieonians managed 7-4-4 (win-draw-lost) with 20 goals and 13 conceded.

Peterhead form and stats

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

It's a day of discovery for Peterhead as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Peterhead have played one with the results W0-D0-L1 (win-draw-lost). In these games Peterhead has scored 0 goals and conceded 2 times.

Let's have a look at how Peterhead performed last season in the League One: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 5 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 30 and conceded 44 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 1 and lost 10 with 14/30 goals scored/conceded.

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