Balanced ball game between Alloa Athletic and Queen's Park expected

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Indodrill Stadium (3100 seats)

Queen's Park know they are in for a demanding visit to Alloa Athletic and their Indodrill Stadium. This news article has all the details you require before the match.

Insights:
  • Alloa Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in League One

Queen's Park play their home matches on grass, while this game will take part on artifical turf. The latest results for Queen's Park when playing on artifical turf are 7 wins, 8 draws and 7 defeats from 22 matches. They have managed to score 27 goals and conceded 35 times in these fixtures.

Both squads have had plenty of rest since their previous match. Let's agree to expect an animated match!

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Alloa Athletic form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Alloa Athletic have to build on here at Indodrill Stadium in the League One. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Alloa Athletic, their manager Ferguson and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

The home team returns to Indodrill Stadium after being equal after 90 minutes with Montrose (placed 2nd) on their last time out; the League One game ended 1-1.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Airdrieonians (1-3).

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.

Alloa Athletic have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Indodrill Stadium with 14 goals in 9 league matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 15 goals have been conceded.

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Queen's Park form and stats

2-5-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Queen's Park in their League One matches away.

Queen's Park play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Airdrieonians (placed 3rd).

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Montrose that ended 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Queen's Park in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Queen's, one draw and two defeats.

Queen's find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. 11 goals have been conceded by Queen's Park in these games.

Head 2 Head

Here's the end result when the participants played each other earlier this campaign; Queen's Park - Alloa 3-4. Alloa Athletic-Queen's Park H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Alloa Athletic six wins, Queen's Park zero wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Alloa AthleticE. Henderson
E. Henderson
8 goals
Alloa AthleticS. Boyd
S. Boyd
7 goals
Queen's ParkL. Longridge
L. Longridge
5 goals

Alloa Athletic missing players

Queen's Park missing players

Alloa Athletic Queen's Park
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 9 2 Played P 3 9 18
5 3 1 Won W 1 2 6
6 2 0 Drew D 1 5 9
9 4 1 Lost L 1 2 3
27 14 2 Scored S 5 13 32
34 15 1 Conceded C 3 11 19
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
95% 89% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 78%
55% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 44% 44%
30% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 28%
10% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 22%
75% 78% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 56%
10% 11% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 39%
15% 11% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 17%
 
2.5 3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 5 5.7
6.8 7.9 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.3 3.9
1.6 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.3 1.8
5 4 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.2 9.6 14 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 10 11.7
3.9 4.7 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.6 4.8
35% 33% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 37%
 
11.3 12.3 11 Shots against (avg) S A 5.3 9.4 8.5
5 5.8 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4 3.4
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 have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Queen's Park have created more than twice as many corners as Alloa Athletic.
  • 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 have the most matches under the total-line (9) 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 21 14 4 3 43 19 10 7 3 0 26 9 11 7 1 3 17 10 24 46
2 Montrose 21 10 9 2 36 17 11 4 5 2 16 12 10 6 4 0 20 5 19 39
3 Airdrieonians 20 12 2 6 33 22 11 8 0 3 21 13 9 4 2 3 12 9 11 38
4 Queen's Park 18 6 9 3 32 19 9 4 4 1 19 8 9 2 5 2 13 11 13 27
5 Falkirk 19 7 4 8 27 30 11 4 1 6 16 17 8 3 3 2 11 13 -3 25
6 Clyde 19 6 5 8 23 34 9 3 2 4 12 19 10 3 3 4 11 15 -11 23
7 Peterhead 20 6 4 10 28 32 10 4 3 3 15 9 10 2 1 7 13 23 -4 22
8 Alloa Athletic 20 5 6 9 27 34 9 3 2 4 14 15 11 2 4 5 13 19 -7 21
9 Dumbarton 20 5 3 12 27 44 10 1 3 6 13 20 10 4 0 6 14 24 -17 18
10 East Fife 20 3 4 13 21 46 9 3 2 4 11 12 11 0 2 9 10 34 -25 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.