Open game expected at Bayview Stadium: East Fife vs Montrose preview

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 21.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Bayview Stadium (2000 seats)

East Fife, who have the most conceded goals (9) in League One, battle against Montrose, who have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in League One, for honour and success.

Insights:
  • East Fife have the most conceded goals (9) in League One
  • Montrose have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in League One

This could be an interesting match with lots of spark and bustle as both teams are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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East Fife form and stats

The first League One game here at Bayview Stadium resulted in a draw. Last season East Fife's home game statistics were 7 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat from 11 games.

In their previous game, the manager D. Young led his East Fife to a defeat in the League One match away at Cove Rangers. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Bayview Stadium. 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?

Before that, East Fife had a Challenge Cup home game versus St. Johnstone U21 which ended with a victory 1-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Fife perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with East Fife as a small favourite), we find eight games. East Fife has won three of these, drawn two and lost three.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the East Fife at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Montrose form and stats

Only one away game in the League One so far for Montrose and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 4 victories, 3 draws and 4 losses from 11 travels.

Montrose won their last game, 1-0 versus Peterhead played at home.

Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Clyde.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Montrose playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were three Montrose wins, one draw and three defeats.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Montrose has managed 3 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (East Fife wins - draws - Montrose wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MontroseG. Webster
G. Webster
3 goals
East FifeL. Watt
L. Watt
1 goals
FifeK. Smith
K. Smith
1 goals

East Fife missing players

Montrose missing players

East Fife Montrose
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
3 1 1 Played P 1 1 3
0 0 0 Won W 1 1 2
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
2 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
4 1 1 Scored S 3 3 6
9 1 1 Conceded C 0 0 2
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 67%
67% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 67%
67% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 33%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 100% 67%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
2.3 3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4 6.3
2 5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5 3.7
1 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.7 5 5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8 13.3
4 2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4 5.3
33% 50% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 75% 38%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • East Fife have the most conceded goals (9) in League One
  • East Fife have the most conceded goals in the second half (6) in League One
  • East Fife have the the worst goal difference (-5) in League One
  • Montrose have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in League One
  • Montrose have the the best goal difference (+3) away in League One
East Fife Last season Montrose
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
22 11   Played P   11 22
10 7   Won W   4 9
3 3   Drew D   3 6
9 1   Lost L   4 7
30 18   Scored S   14 33
33 11   Conceded C   19 33
95% 91%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   91% 91%
91% 82%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 77%
68% 64%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   64% 64%
27% 27%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   36% 45%
5% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   27% 23%
64% 64%   BTTS BTTS   64% 55%
18% 36%   Clean Sheets C S   18% 27%
23% 9%   Failed to Score F T   27% 27%
 
5 5.3   Corners for (avg) C F   6.5 5.1
4.9 5.1   Corners against (avg) C A   3.8 4.1
1.7 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 1.8
3 1   Red cards R C   0 1
 
9.9 11   Shots (avg) S (   8.2 9.5
3.4 4.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.1 3.7
40% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 41%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Queen's Park 3 2 1 0 6 1 2 2 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 5 7
2 Montrose 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 4 7
3 Falkirk 3 2 1 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 7
4 Cove Rangers 3 1 1 1 6 5 2 1 1 0 6 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 4
5 Dumbarton 3 1 1 1 5 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 4
6 Clyde 3 1 1 1 4 6 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 0 1 0 2 2 -2 4
7 Peterhead 3 1 0 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 3
8 Alloa Athletic 3 1 0 2 4 5 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 -1 3
9 Airdrieonians 3 0 1 2 3 7 2 0 0 2 1 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 -4 1
10 East Fife 3 0 1 2 4 9 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 3 8 -5 1
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 East Fife 22 10 3 9 30 33 11 7 3 1 18 11 11 3 0 8 12 22 -3 33
2 Peterhead 22 9 2 11 24 27 11 5 1 5 10 12 11 4 1 6 14 15 -3 29
3 Clyde 22 8 2 12 27 38 11 5 1 5 15 17 11 3 1 7 12 21 -11 26
4 Dumbarton 22 7 4 11 14 24 11 5 1 5 8 11 11 2 3 6 6 13 -10 25
5 Forfar Athletic 22 4 5 13 18 37 11 1 2 8 10 21 11 3 3 5 8 16 -19 17

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.