Dumbarton will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Airdrieonians.
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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Airdrieonians's home stadium. The visitors last 29 games on grass have ended in 11 wins, 5 draws and 13 losses.
Dumbarton form and stats
When playing at home in the League One, Dumbarton have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 10 games. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Dumbarton to get some points in this home game.
Dumbarton lost their last game at East Fife (placed 4th) after a 2-4 scoreline. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Peterhead.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Dumbarton are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 10 games. On the other hand, Dumbarton have conceded 14 goals.
Airdrieonians form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The attacking players of Airdrieonians have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 242 minutes.
The manager I. Murray was unhappy after their last game, a League One match played at their home ground Penny Cars Stadium. Airdrieonians suffered a 0-1 loss to Raith Rovers (placed 1st). A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Stranraer.
The travelling fans enjoy Airdrieonians's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 10 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Airdrieonians in these games.
Head 2 Head
Dumbarton and Airdrieonians have met before this season: Airdrieonians - Dumbarton 3-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Dumbarton, four draws and four wins for Airdrieonians. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  C. Gallagher 11 goals |  D. Carrick 11 goals |   I. Layne 8 goals |
Dumbarton missing players
Airdrieonians missing players
| Dumbarton | Airdrieonians | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 30 | 12 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 16 | 33 |
| 40 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 6 | 13 | 26 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 77% | 70% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 65% |
| 59% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 52% |
| 41% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | 39% |
| 23% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 9% |
| 59% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | 52% |
| 14% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 30% |
| 32% | 30% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 10% | 26% |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 8.3 | 6.4 | 6.6 |
| 6.2 | 6.1 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 3.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 182 | 93 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 37 | 114 | 259 |
| 79 | 33 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 41 | 102 |
| 38% | 36% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 39% | 32% |
- Airdrieonians have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Airdrieonians haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Dumbarton has the fewest clean sheets (1) at home
- Dumbarton has the most points from losing position (12)
- Dumbarton haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Raith Rovers | 23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 44 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 45 |
| 2 | Falkirk | 23 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 45 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 31 | 42 |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 33 | 26 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 38 |
| 4 | East Fife | 23 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 38 | 31 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 36 |
| 5 | Montrose | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 39 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 35 |
| 6 | Dumbarton | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 30 | 40 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 26 | -10 | 28 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 29 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 26 | -8 | 25 |
| 8 | Clyde | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 21 | -8 | 25 |
| 9 | Forfar Athletic | 23 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 20 | -17 | 22 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 22 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 46 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 28 | -23 | 14 |