Forfar Athletic hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 24 points and a 9th position in the League One table. Visiting East Fife holds 4th place with 42 pts.
Forfar Athletic have less rest than East Fife in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a League One game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Peterhead, so at least Forfar Athletic are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
7 - 4 - 8 with 22-24. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for East Fife when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. East Fife play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Forfar Athletic form and stats
4 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats. That’s what Forfar Athletic, who have the most conceded goals (21) at home in League One, have to build on here at Station Park in the League One.
Forfar Athletic shared the glory with Peterhead in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Stranraer.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Forfar Athletic handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, one draw and zero defeats.
There will be little rest for Forfar Athletic after this match as they are travelling to Dumbarton for a League One game in only three days.
Forfar Athletic are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 13 games. Forfar Athletic have conceded 21 from these games.
East Fife form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 5 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on D. Young, the East Fife manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
S. Agnew, R. Wallace, D. Denholm and A. Dowds scored in East Fife's previous match, the home game against Stranraer that ended 4-2. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Falkirk wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Stranraer was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
East Fife are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, one draw and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.
East Fife have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 12 league away games 16 goals have been scored. East Fife have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: East Fife - Forfar Athletic 1-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Forfar Athletic won five games, one match ended with a draw and East Fife has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
 S. Agnew 9 goals | A. Dowds 6 goals | R. Wallace 6 goals |
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| Forfar Athletic | East Fife | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 26 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 25 | 17 | 7 | Scored | S | 6 | 16 | 43 |
| 42 | 21 | 7 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 35 |
| 88% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 88% |
| 72% | 85% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 73% |
| 48% | 54% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 24% | 23% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 20% | 23% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 23% |
| 48% | 69% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 58% | 62% |
| 24% | 23% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 17% | 23% |
| 40% | 15% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 27% |
| 3.4 | 3.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.5 | 5.3 |
| 5 | 4.5 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
| 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 218 | 129 | 27 | Total Shots | T S | 32 | 118 | 304 |
| 84 | 53 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 56 | 114 |
| 30% | 32% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 29% | 38% |
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals (25)
- Forfar Athletic has the fewest scored goals in the second half (10)
- Forfar Athletic has the most conceded goals (21) at home
- Forfar Athletic has the most dropped points from leading position (19)
- 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 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 46 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 49 |
| 2 | Falkirk | 25 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 48 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 34 | 48 |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 45 |
| 4 | East Fife | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 43 | 35 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 42 |
| 5 | Montrose | 24 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 41 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 38 |
| 6 | Dumbarton | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 42 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 28 | -10 | 32 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 30 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 27 | -11 | 26 |
| 8 | Clyde | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 25 | -12 | 25 |
| 9 | Forfar Athletic | 25 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 25 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 21 | -17 | 24 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 25 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 33 | -25 | 16 |