Betting preview: Alloa Athletic vs Falkirk should be interesting

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Tue 08.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Indodrill Stadium (3100 seats)

Falkirk know they have a strenuous trip to Alloa Athletic and their Indodrill Stadium. This article has all the facts you require ahead of the game.

Insights:
  • Alloa Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Falkirk have created more than twice as many corners as Alloa Athletic.

It's no vacation for neither Alloa Athletic nor Falkirk 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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Alloa Athletic form and stats

3-3-4 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Alloa Athletic so far this season.

Alloa enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Peterhead's place. The match ended 1-0 with Henderson scoring.

Prior to that, an away loss at Clyde.

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 Alloa Athletic have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn one and lost two.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the League One game versus East Fife in only four days. This game is also played here at Indodrill Stadium.

Alloa Athletic have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Indodrill Stadium with 15 goals in 10 league matches. Alloa have conceded 16 from these games.

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Falkirk form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the League One.

Falkirk's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Queen's Park that finished 1-1.

A 1-2 defeat away at Montrose before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Falkirk in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Falkirk, one draw and three defeats.

Falkirk have scored 16 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. As for defending, Falkirk rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 18 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This duo played each other before this season: Falkirk - Alloa Athletic 1-1. Statistics for the previous ten meetings involving these two teams are: two wins for Alloa Athletic, two draws and six wins for Falkirk. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

Alloa AthleticE. Henderson
E. Henderson
9 goals
AlloaS. Boyd
S. Boyd
8 goals
FalkirkC. Morrison
C. Morrison
5 goals

Alloa Athletic missing players

Falkirk missing players

Alloa Athletic Falkirk
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 10 3 Played P 3 11 23
6 3 0 Won W 2 4 8
7 3 2 Drew D 1 3 5
10 4 1 Lost L 0 4 10
30 15 2 Scored S 5 16 33
37 16 3 Conceded C 0 18 36
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 91% 96%
91% 90% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 91% 87%
52% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 64% 65%
26% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 22%
9% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 13%
74% 80% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 55% 57%
13% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 27% 17%
13% 10% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 27% 30%
 
2.7 3.1 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5.8 6.2
6.7 7.9 6.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5 4.4
1.7 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.7
5 4 1 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
9.3 9.5 12 Shots (avg) S ( 12.7 12.1 11.1
4 4.4 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.5 4.1
33% 34% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 32% 35%
 
10.8 11.8 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 4.3 9.1 7.5
4.7 5.4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.3 4 3.6
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Alloa Athletic have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Alloa Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Falkirk have created more than twice as many corners as Alloa Athletic.

  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 24 15 6 3 47 22 12 8 4 0 28 10 12 7 2 3 19 12 25 51
2 Airdrieonians 24 13 5 6 40 28 12 9 0 3 24 15 12 4 5 3 16 13 12 44
3 Montrose 24 11 10 3 39 20 13 5 6 2 19 14 11 6 4 1 20 6 19 43
4 Queen's Park 22 6 13 3 36 23 10 4 5 1 20 9 12 2 8 2 16 14 13 31
5 Clyde 24 7 9 8 29 39 12 4 4 4 17 23 12 3 5 4 12 16 -10 30
6 Falkirk 23 8 5 10 33 36 12 4 2 6 17 18 11 4 3 4 16 18 -3 29
7 Alloa Athletic 23 6 7 10 30 37 10 3 3 4 15 16 13 3 4 6 15 21 -7 25
8 Peterhead 23 6 6 11 29 34 12 4 4 4 16 11 11 2 2 7 13 23 -5 24
9 Dumbarton 23 6 5 12 32 47 12 2 4 6 17 22 11 4 1 6 15 25 -15 23
10 East Fife 24 3 6 15 21 50 12 3 4 5 11 14 12 0 2 10 10 36 -29 15

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.