Forfar Athletic vs Clyde betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Scotland League One
Date: Sat 01.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Station Park (4602 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the League One, Forfar Athletic holding 9th place and Clyde lying 7th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

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!

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Forfar Athletic form and stats

Forfar Athletic's struggle is real here at Station Park with only 11 points collected from 11 League One games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-6.

Forfar Athletic lost their last game at Falkirk (placed 2nd) after a 0-6 scoreline. Before that, Forfar Athletic drew at home versus Raith Rovers.

As you see from the result above, Forfar Athletic suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

Forfar Athletic are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 11 games. Forfar Athletic have conceded 19 from these games.

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Clyde form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Clyde so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-5 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Clyde are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Clyde won their last game, 2-1 versus East Fife played at home. Preceding that game was the away Scottish Cup victory against Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic with the score of 1-0.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. In the opposite end, Clyde have conceded 19 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Clyde - Forfar Athletic 0-0. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's 4 Forfar Athletic victories, 3 draws and 0 Clyde wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ClydeD. Goodwillie
D. Goodwillie
17 goals
Forfar AthleticR. Forbes
R. Forbes
5 goals
Forfar AthleticM. Docherty
M. Docherty
2 goals

Forfar Athletic missing players

Clyde missing players

Forfar Athletic Clyde
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 3 10 21
5 3 2 Won W 0 2 6
4 2 0 Drew D 1 3 7
13 6 0 Lost L 2 5 8
21 14 3 Scored S 1 7 27
39 19 1 Conceded C 6 19 34
86% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 86%
68% 82% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 70% 76%
50% 55% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 57%
27% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 33%
23% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 14%
41% 64% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 40% 57%
27% 27% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 30% 24%
45% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 33%
 
3.4 3.7 4 Corners For (avg) C F 6 5.6 5.3
5.1 4.5 4 Corners Against (avg) C A 4 4.3 4.4
1.7 1.5 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.4
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 1 1 2
 
187 105 28 Total Shots T S 19 74 179
73 44 15 Shots on Target S O 7 29 83
29% 32% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 24% 33%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Clyde have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals (21)
  • Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals in the second half (8)
  • Forfar Athletic has the most conceded goals (19) at home
  • Forfar Athletic has the most dropped points from leading position (17)
  • Forfar Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 22 12 6 4 43 29 11 7 3 1 25 12 11 5 3 3 18 17 14 42
2 Falkirk 22 11 8 3 44 13 11 7 2 2 29 5 11 4 6 1 15 8 31 41
3 Airdrieonians 22 11 5 6 33 25 12 5 4 3 17 12 10 6 1 3 16 13 8 38
4 East Fife 22 8 9 5 34 29 11 3 6 2 18 15 11 5 3 3 16 14 5 33
5 Montrose 21 10 2 9 35 30 10 5 0 5 18 14 11 5 2 4 17 16 5 32
6 Dumbarton 21 8 4 9 28 36 10 3 2 5 12 14 11 5 2 4 16 22 -8 28
7 Clyde 21 6 7 8 27 34 11 4 4 3 20 15 10 2 3 5 7 19 -7 25
8 Peterhead 22 7 4 11 26 33 12 5 3 4 15 11 10 2 1 7 11 22 -7 25
9 Forfar Athletic 22 5 4 13 21 39 11 3 2 6 14 19 11 2 2 7 7 20 -18 19
10 Stranraer 21 2 7 12 22 45 9 2 2 5 11 17 12 0 5 7 11 28 -23 13

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.