Struggling Forfar Athletic will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Falkirk in the upcoming league round. It’s 8th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Forfar Athletic form and stats
2-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Forfar Athletic, who have the fewest scored goals (9) in League One, so far this season.
The points were shared in Forfar Athletic's previous game, also at home. Visiting Falkirk (placed 3rd) travelled back with a point after a 0-0 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Forfar Athletic lost 1-4 at home to Airdrieonians.
Forfar Athletic are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 attempts. On the other hand, Forfar Athletic have conceded 8 goals.
Falkirk form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in League One, on their League One travels is 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat. Falkirk has drawn their two previous away games.
Falkirk are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Forfar Athletic (placed 8th). Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Clyde.
Falkirk are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Falkirk - Forfar Athletic 3-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Forfar Athletic won 0 games, 0 matches ended with a draw and Falkirk has 4 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 3 / 1Top Goalscorers
  C. Sammon 6 goals |  D. McManus 4 goals |  L. Longridge 4 goals |
Forfar Athletic missing players
Falkirk missing players
| Forfar Athletic | Falkirk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 20 |
| 16 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 83% | 71% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 50% | 67% |
| 58% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 42% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 8% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 33% | 43% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 42% | 57% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 42% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 67% | 50% |
| 3.5 | 3.1 | 2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.7 | 6 |
| 4.6 | 4.3 | 5.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 1.2 | 0.7 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Falkirk have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Falkirk have scored more than double the goals of Forfar Athletic.
- 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 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 21 |
| 2 | East Fife | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Falkirk | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 19 |
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 17 |
| 6 | Clyde | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 7 | Montrose | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | Forfar Athletic | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 10 |
| 9 | Peterhead | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 9 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 7 |