A classic home victory, the away team steals the points or an exciting draw? Anything can happen when the mid-table teams Edinburgh City and Alloa Athletic meet at Meadowbank Stadium.
- Edinburgh City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Alloa Athletic have the most scored goals (30) in League One
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Alloa Athletic have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-5-8 (win-draw-loss) from 20 matches.
Both participants have had enough days rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's wish for an energetic match!
Edinburgh City form and stats
Edinburgh City have collected 12 points from their League One home games so far after 4-0-3.
Edinburgh haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 194 minutes ago. Handling scored that one.
Edinburgh City lost their last game at Falkirk (placed 2nd) after a 0-2 scoreline.
Preceding that match was the home game against Queen of the South that was lost 0-3.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Edinburgh have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 1 and lost 3.
Edinburgh City has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. 10 goals have been conceded.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Playing away, Alloa Athletic, who have the most scored goals (30) in League One, have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 3 defeats in the League One this season.
Alloa Athletic had fun at their own home (Meadowbank Stadium) last time out, beating Queen of the South 5-1. Church, Offord (2), Stanger and MacIver scored. As you can tell from the results above, Alloa Athletic was very dominant against Queen of the South, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-1 (!) with Church, Offord (2), Stanger and MacIver providing the goals.
A 1-1 draw at Kelty Hearts's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Alloa in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Alloa Athletic, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Alloa Athletic have scored 9 goals in 7 league games away. As opposed to that, Alloa Athletic have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Edinburgh and Alloa Athletic have played each other already this season: Alloa Athletic - Edinburgh City 2-4. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's one Edinburgh City victory, one draw and one Alloa Athletic win. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Handling 7 goals |  J. Robertson 6 goals |   C. Sammon 5 goals |
Edinburgh City missing players
Alloa Athletic missing players
| Edinburgh City | Alloa Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 25 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| 21 | 10 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 53% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 60% |
| 27% | 14% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 27% |
| 33% | 14% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 60% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 29% | 20% |
| 3.3 | 3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| 6.5 | 7.7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| 1.9 | 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.7 | 8.1 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 7.6 | 7.3 |
| 4.3 | 4.1 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.7 | 4.1 |
| 39% | 31% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 35% | 49% |
| 12.1 | 12.3 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 25 | 10.1 | 7.2 |
| 5.1 | 5.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 13 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
- All of Edinburgh City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Alloa Athletic have the most scored goals (30) in League One
- Alloa Athletic have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in League One
- Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Edinburgh City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Edinburgh City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Edinburgh City 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 | Dunfermline Athletic | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 32 |
| 2 | Falkirk | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Montrose | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 27 |
| 4 | Alloa Athletic | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 25 |
| 6 | Airdrieonians | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Kelty Hearts | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -10 | 17 |
| 9 | Clyde | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -14 | 8 |
| 10 | Peterhead | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -26 | 7 |
