Cove Rangers anticipate the arrival of East Fife with hopes of securing all three points. Can they? Read our preview!
- Cove Rangers have the most scored goals (37) in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (19) in League One
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Cove Rangers form and stats
Cove Rangers are steadily winning League One games and points here at Balmoral Stadium. 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 9 games. The Cove Rangers fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Balmoral Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Cove has played ten games in a row here without a defeat.
Cove are confident in defense, having played 547 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Cove's previous game was a League One match also played at home, ending 3-0 versus Alloa Athletic (placed 7th). The home side are looking to build on that result.
In the preceding match a 3-0 victory visiting Falkirk.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Cove Rangers home games with this odds we find ten games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in eight wins, one draw and one defeat. Looking at the victories, four matches were won by at least two goals.
Goals decide football matches and Cove are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 9 league matches. Cove Rangers have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
East Fife form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for East Fife so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-7 (win-draw-lose).
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Peterhead (placed 5th) in their previous outing. The League One match ended in a draw 1-1.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Alloa Athletic.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Fife played away with similar odds. This revealed three games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected two times.
The attacking power of Fife when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 9 league matches away. Fife can't defend away. 27 goals have been scored by the opposition in 9 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
East Fife - Cove Rangers 4-2 was the end result in these sides' latest H2H fixture, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Cove two wins, one draw and East Fife one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. McAllister 12 goals | M. Megginson 9 goals |   K. Connell 5 goals |
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| Cove Rangers | East Fife | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 37 | 22 | 8 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 19 |
| 17 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 27 | 37 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 56% | 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 78% | 59% |
| 28% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 56% | 35% |
| 17% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 24% |
| 44% | 44% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 78% | 65% |
| 50% | 56% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 29% |
| 5.8 | 4.8 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4 | 4.2 |
| 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 4.7 | 5.4 |
| 1.8 | 2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.5 | 12.8 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9 | 9.4 |
| 4.6 | 5.4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| 45% | 45% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 32% |
| 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 11.9 | 12.5 |
| 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.6 | 4.7 |
- All of East Fife's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cove Rangers have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cove Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cove Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as East Fife have scored away.
- Cove Rangers have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Cove Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in League One
- Cove Rangers have the most clean sheets (9) in League One
- Cove Rangers have the most points (21) at home in League One
- Cove Rangers have the most scored goals (22) at home in League One
- Cove Rangers have the most scored goals (37) in League One
- Cove Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (28) in League One
- Cove Rangers have the the best goal difference (+15) at home in League One
- Cove Rangers have the the best goal difference (+20) in League One
- Cove Rangers have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Cove Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0) in League One
- East Fife have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- East Fife have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- East Fife have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- East Fife have the fewest clean sheets (1) in League One
- East Fife have the fewest points (2) away in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (19) in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (8) away in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals in the second half (13) in League One
- East Fife have the most conceded goals (27) away in League One
- East Fife have the most conceded goals in the second half (29) in League One
- East Fife have the the worst goal difference (-18) in League One
- East Fife have the the worst goal difference (-19) away in League One
- East Fife have yet to win a game away.
- East Fife haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 37 |
| 2 | Montrose | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 15 | 32 |
| 3 | Queen's Park | 17 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 32 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 27 |
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 26 |
| 5 | Peterhead | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 21 | -1 | 22 |
| 6 | Falkirk | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | -6 | 22 |
| 7 | Alloa Athletic | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 20 |
| 8 | Clyde | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -11 | 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 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 37 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 27 | -18 | 13 |