Another action-packed fixture in League One as Cove Rangers welcome Peterhead

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Balmoral Stadium (3000 seats)

There's been ups and downs for these two teams so far this season, occupying positions near the middle of the League One table so far. Here's the Cove Rangers - Peterhead latest:

Insights:
  • Cove Rangers has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in League One
  • Peterhead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

Cove's stadium, Balmoral 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; 4 wins, 1 draw and 11 losses from 16 matches. They have scored 24 goals in these games and conceded 37.

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Cove Rangers form and stats

3-0-2 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Cove Rangers, who have the most scored goals (10) at home in League One, so far this season. Cove are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Balmoral Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.

A good away victory last time out for Cove Rangers, who won 1-0 against Forfar Athletic (placed 10th). Ahead of that match, Cove lost 2-3 at home to Clyde.

The Cove manager P. Hartley has got the team scoring with 10 from 5 home games in the league. On the other hand, Cove Rangers have conceded 6 goals.

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Peterhead form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

Peterhead delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Montrose (placed 2nd) in their previous match; a League One game. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Partick Thistle at their stadium, the result 1-0.

The draw against Montrose came from a losing position. The Peterhead manager J. McInally brought on I. Layne as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.

The visiting Peterhead have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. Peterhead have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Peterhead - Cove Rangers 0-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last two meetings): Cove won one game, zero matches ended with a draw and Peterhead has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one

Top Goalscorers

CoveM. Megginson
M. Megginson
8 goals
PeterheadS. Brown
S. Brown
3 goals
PeterheadB. Armour
B. Armour
3 goals

Cove Rangers missing players

Peterhead missing players

Cove Rangers Peterhead
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 5 10
5 3 1 Won W 1 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 3 5
14 10 1 Scored S 1 6 10
9 6 0 Conceded C 0 7 12
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 80% 70%
40% 80% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 30%
20% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 10%
10% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
40% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
40% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 30%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.4 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.9 14.6 6 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6 7.3
5 7.2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.6 3.2
28% 28% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 46% 31%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Cove Rangers has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in League One
  • Cove Rangers has the most scored goals (10) at home in League One
  • Cove Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cove Rangers have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Peterhead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Peterhead 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 Falkirk 10 6 3 1 17 6 6 3 2 1 6 3 4 3 1 0 11 3 11 21
2 Montrose 10 5 2 3 19 15 4 2 0 2 8 6 6 3 2 1 11 9 4 17
3 Airdrieonians 10 5 1 4 17 11 5 2 1 2 8 4 5 3 0 2 9 7 6 16
4 Cove Rangers 10 5 1 4 14 9 5 3 0 2 10 6 5 2 1 2 4 3 5 16
5 Partick Thistle 10 4 3 3 9 6 5 2 2 1 6 4 5 2 1 2 3 2 3 15
6 Peterhead 10 4 1 5 10 12 5 2 1 2 4 5 5 2 0 3 6 7 -2 13
7 Dumbarton 9 3 2 4 5 10 3 2 0 1 2 3 6 1 2 3 3 7 -5 11
8 East Fife 8 3 1 4 10 12 4 3 1 0 8 3 4 0 0 4 2 9 -2 10
9 Clyde 8 3 0 5 9 19 5 2 0 3 6 11 3 1 0 2 3 8 -10 9
10 Forfar Athletic 9 1 2 6 5 15 5 0 1 4 3 9 4 1 1 2 2 6 -10 5

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.