Dumbarton will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Cove Rangers.
- Dumbarton has the most clean sheets (4) in League One
- Cove Rangers has the most dropped points from leading position (5) in League One
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Dumbarton's stadium, The C&G Systems Stadium, has a grass surface. Cove Rangers have artifical turf 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 Cove Rangers when playing on grass; 15 wins, 5 draws and 9 losses from 29 matches. They have scored 60 goals in these games and conceded 39.
Dumbarton form and stats
Only two League One home games for Dumbarton so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Dumbarton haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 299 minutes ago. J. Wilson scored that one.
An away draw last time out for Dumbarton, facing Partick Thistle in a game that ended 0-0. Preceding that match was the home game against Falkirk that was lost 0-3.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Dumbarton at home in the league. 1 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Cove Rangers form and stats
Cove Rangers are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League One, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Cove failed to get anything from their last game, a League One home match vs Montrose (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Airdrieonians.
Cove are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 3 away goals from 3 games (in the league). Cove Rangers are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Megginson 5 goals | H. Milne 2 goals | R. McAllister 2 goals |
Dumbarton missing players
Cove Rangers missing players
| Dumbarton | Cove Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 43% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 29% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 43% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 57% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 2.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5.7 | 4 | 4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8 | 12 |
| 1.7 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 30% | 28% |
- Cove Rangers has the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in League One
- Cove Rangers has the most dropped points from leading position (5) in League One
- Cove Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cove Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Dumbarton.
- Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dumbarton has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in League One
- Dumbarton has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in League One
- Dumbarton has the most clean sheets (4) in League One
| 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 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 | Cove Rangers | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Partick Thistle | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | Montrose | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 6 | Dumbarton | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 8 |
| 7 | East Fife | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 8 | Peterhead | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 6 |
| 9 | Clyde | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 6 |
| 10 | Forfar Athletic | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 5 |