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 Montrose will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
Forfar Athletic and Montrose should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Forfar Athletic form and stats
Forfar Athletic have collected 10 points from their League One home games so far after 3-1-5.
A good away victory last time out for Forfar Athletic, who won 4-2 against Stranraer (placed 10th). Ahead of that match, Forfar Athletic lost 3-4 at home to Dumbarton.
A goal frenzy last time out for Forfar Athletic, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Stranraer. Fun stuff to watch!
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 Forfar Athletic have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won 4 Drawn 2 Lost 3.
Forfar Athletic has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Forfar Athletic have conceded 15 from these games.
Montrose form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
The manager S. Petrie was unhappy after their last game, a League One match played at their home ground Links Park. Montrose suffered a 2-3 loss to Falkirk (placed 4th). Before that, Montrose secured a home win against Clyde with the score 4-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Montrose in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Montrose, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Montrose are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 9 games (in the league). 10 goals have been conceded by Montrose in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Montrose - Forfar Athletic 3-0. Forfar Athletic-Montrose H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Forfar Athletic 5 wins, Montrose 4 wins, 1 draw. 6 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  G. Webster 6 goals |  B. Lyons 6 goals |   D. Hilson 4 goals |
Forfar Athletic missing players
Montrose missing players
| Forfar Athletic | Montrose | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 18 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 28 |
| 28 | 15 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 24 |
| 83% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 94% |
| 67% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 78% | 78% |
| 50% | 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | 61% |
| 22% | 22% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 22% | 33% |
| 17% | 22% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 39% | 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 44% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 44% | 33% |
| 44% | 22% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 28% |
| 3.4 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.6 | 5.7 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 163 | 92 | 19 | Total Shots | T S | 18 | 70 | 168 |
| 63 | 38 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 26 | 58 |
| 29% | 29% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 42% | 48% |
- Forfar Athletic has the most dropped points from leading position (12)
- 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 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 32 |
| 2 | East Fife | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 32 |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 32 |
| 4 | Falkirk | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 31 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 18 | -4 | 27 |
| 6 | Montrose | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 26 |
| 7 | Clyde | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | -6 | 21 |
| 8 | Peterhead | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 20 | -7 | 19 |
| 9 | Forfar Athletic | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -10 | 18 |
| 10 | Stranraer | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 41 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 24 | -23 | 10 |