Season ticket holders at Station Park haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Forfar Athletic languishing in the 9th position so far. The guesting Dumbarton will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
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.
Dumbarton play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Dumbarton when playing on artificial turf are 6 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats from 18 matches. They have scored 18 goals and conceded 27 times in these games.
Forfar Athletic form and stats
Forfar Athletic have collected 10 points from their League One home games so far after 3-1-4.
The home team returns to Station Park after sharing the points with Clyde (placed 8th) on their last time out; the League One game ended 0-0. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Peterhead in a game that was won 2-1.
Forfar Athletic has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. On the other hand, Forfar Athletic have conceded 11 goals.
Dumbarton form and stats
As the visiting team in League One matches, Dumbarton have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League One home defeat versus Montrose with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Preceding that game was the away victory against Clyde with the score of 2-1.
Dumbarton are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 7 games (in the league). The Dumbarton manager J. Duffy has some worries about the defense as 15 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Forfar Athletic and Dumbarton have met before this season: Dumbarton - Forfar Athletic 3-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 3 Forfar Athletic victories, 3 draws and 4 Dumbarton wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 6 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
I. Layne
8 goals
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R. McGeever
3 goals
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R. Forbes
2 goals
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Forfar Athletic missing players
Dumbarton missing players
| Forfar Athletic | Dumbarton | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 22 | 11 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 15 | 28 |
| 81% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 86% | 94% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 86% | 75% |
| 44% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 86% | 62% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 57% | 44% |
| 6% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 19% |
| 31% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 71% | 62% |
| 38% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 14% | 12% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 31% |
| 3.4 | 3.4 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| 5.2 | 4.8 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5.9 | 5.9 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 147 | 81 | 14 | Total Shots | T S | 29 | 60 | 147 |
| 53 | 32 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 30 | 61 |
| 21% | 25% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 33% | 34% |
- Dumbarton has the most conceded goals in the first half (16)
- Dumbarton have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals (11)
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals (8) at home
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals in the first half (5)
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals in the second half (6)
- Forfar Athletic has the most dropped points from leading position (9)
- Forfar Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-3) at home
- 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 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 31 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 27 |
| 4 | East Fife | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | Montrose | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 23 |
| 6 | Dumbarton | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 21 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -5 | 19 |
| 8 | Clyde | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -4 | 18 |
| 9 | Forfar Athletic | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 15 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 24 | -19 | 10 |