Airdrieonians vs Queen's Park betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Wed 29.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Penny Cars Stadium (10171 seats)

The home team, Airdrieonians, should be odds-on favourites in this match, but Queen's Park have shown both smartness and courage. Read more about the match!

Insights:
  • Airdrieonians have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in League One

This football stadium has artifical turf, which is not Queen's Park's familiar surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Queen's Park have performed like this: Played 21 matches resulting in 7 wins, 8 draws and 6 defeats with the goal stats 27-34 (scored/conceded).

Airdrieonians have less rest than Queen's Park in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a League One game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Alloa Athletic, was also a home game here at Penny Cars Stadium. The away team is better rested.

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Airdrieonians form and stats

18 points is a decent return from 9 League One games here at Penny Cars Stadium for Airdrieonians. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses.

The Airdrieonians supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Alloa Athletic in League One and win 3-1.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Montrose (1-2).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Airdrieonians have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won six, drawn one and lost six.

The manager Murray will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Dumbarton in only four days.

Airdrieonians have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Penny Cars Stadium with 17 goals in 9 league matches. On the other hand, Airdrieonians have conceded 13 goals.

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Queen's Park form and stats

The visitors are W2-D5-L1 on the road this term. That's in the League One.

Queen's are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Montrose (placed 2nd).

Prior to that match, a home win 6-0 against Falkirk.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Queen's playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were two Queen's Park wins, one draw and one defeat.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Queen's manager Ellis as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Clyde.

The travelling fans enjoy Queen's Park's attacking play in away games, having scored 13 goals in 8 league matches away. 10 goals have been conceded by Queen's in these games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these parties meet on the pitch this campaign, as the history books show this recent fixture: Queen's Park - Airdrieonians 0-0. Numbers for the prior ten meetings involving these two sides are: three wins for Airdrieonians, six draws and one win for Queen's Park. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

AirdrieoniansC. Gallagher
C. Gallagher
6 goals
Queen's ParkL. Longridge
L. Longridge
5 goals
Queen's ParkR. McHugh
R. McHugh
5 goals

Airdrieonians missing players

Queen's Park missing players

Airdrieonians Queen's Park
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 2 Played P 2 8 17
9 6 2 Won W 0 2 6
2 0 0 Drew D 2 5 9
6 3 0 Lost L 0 1 2
28 17 5 Scored S 4 13 32
22 13 2 Conceded C 4 10 18
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 82%
76% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 47%
29% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 25% 29%
12% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 12% 24%
59% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 59%
24% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 41%
24% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 12%
 
6.5 7.4 9 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.9 5.6
3.6 2.8 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 4.4 3.9
1.6 1.4 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.1 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.7 11.3 13 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 10.8 12.2
4.9 4.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4 5.1
33% 40% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 41% 37%
 
9.4 8.8 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 13.5 9.2 8.4
4.1 3.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 3.9 3.4
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Airdrieonians have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Airdrieonians have the fewest points from losing position (0) in League One
  • Airdrieonians have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in League One
  • Airdrieonians have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Airdrieonians haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Airdrieonians's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Queen's Park have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Queen's Park have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the fewest matches over the total-line (7) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in League One
  • Queen's Park haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cove Rangers 19 12 4 3 41 19 10 7 3 0 26 9 9 5 1 3 15 10 22 40
2 Montrose 19 9 8 2 33 16 10 4 4 2 15 11 9 5 4 0 18 5 17 35
3 Airdrieonians 17 9 2 6 28 22 9 6 0 3 17 13 8 3 2 3 11 9 6 29
4 Queen's Park 17 6 9 2 32 18 9 4 4 1 19 8 8 2 5 1 13 10 14 27
5 Clyde 18 6 5 7 23 33 8 3 2 3 12 18 10 3 3 4 11 15 -10 23
6 Peterhead 19 6 4 9 28 31 9 4 3 2 15 8 10 2 1 7 13 23 -3 22
7 Falkirk 18 6 4 8 21 28 10 3 1 6 10 15 8 3 3 2 11 13 -7 22
8 Alloa Athletic 19 5 5 9 26 33 9 3 2 4 14 15 10 2 3 5 12 18 -7 20
9 Dumbarton 18 5 3 10 25 37 9 1 3 5 13 19 9 4 0 5 12 18 -12 18
10 East Fife 18 3 4 11 21 41 8 3 2 3 11 10 10 0 2 8 10 31 -20 13

Read more about League One

The Scottish League One is the third division in the Scottish football league pyramid. It holds ten teams who play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures in a season from August to May. The top team in the league table is promoted, the bottom team relegated. There are also playoffs to promote and relegate.