Football tips: Forfar Athletic vs Peterhead - predictions and betting guide

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Tue 06.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Station Park (4602 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the League One, with both Forfar Athletic and Peterhead experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 10th and the visitors in 7th place.

Insights:
  • Forfar Athletic have the fewest points (2) at home in League One
  • Peterhead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Forfar and Peterhead.

Forfar Athletic's stadium, Station Park, has a artifical turf surface. Peterhead have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Peterhead when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses from 17 matches. They have scored 25 goals in these games and conceded 37.

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Forfar Athletic form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the League One this season. Forfar Athletic, who have the fewest points (2) at home in League One, have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from their games here at Station Park. Forfar are slowly digging their own grave here at Station Park with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Dumbarton match.

The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Peterhead in the League One last time out and are looking for a win here. In the match before that, Forfar hosted Edinburgh City (after extra-time, 5-3 on penalties) and drew the Scottish Cup game 2-2.

The hometeam coach S. Malcolm made a successful contribution in the game against Peterhead, bringing on M. Scott who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the League One game versus East Fife in only four days. This game is also played here at Station Park.

Forfar have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Forfar defense is not exactly impregnable. 12 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Peterhead form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Peterhead playing as the away team in the League One this season.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Forfar Athletic (placed 10th) in their previous outing. The League One match ended in a draw 1-1. A loss against Clyde was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Peterhead have scored 8 goals in 8 league games away. As opposed to that, Peterhead have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Forfar - Peterhead 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Forfar victories, two draws and three Peterhead wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PeterheadB. Armour
B. Armour
4 goals
PeterheadS. Brown
S. Brown
3 goals

Forfar Athletic missing players

Peterhead missing players

Forfar Athletic Peterhead
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 7 1 Played P 2 8 15
2 0 0 Won W 2 3 6
5 2 1 Drew D 0 1 2
7 5 0 Lost L 0 4 7
9 4 0 Scored S 3 8 13
20 12 0 Conceded C 0 9 16
86% 86% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
64% 71% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 60%
29% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 20%
21% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 7%
7% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 7%
36% 43% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 33%
29% 14% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 38% 33%
50% 57% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 3 4
 
6.5 5.7 8 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.8 8.2
2.1 2.1 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.8 3.5
30% 27% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 27% 25%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Forfar Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Forfar Athletic have the fewest points (2) at home in League One
  • Forfar Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in League One
  • Forfar Athletic have yet to win a game at home.
  • Peterhead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Peterhead haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Falkirk 15 8 4 3 24 11 8 4 3 1 9 4 7 4 1 2 15 7 13 28
2 Cove Rangers 15 7 4 4 19 11 7 5 0 2 13 6 8 2 4 2 6 5 8 25
3 Montrose 15 6 5 4 24 19 7 3 2 2 13 8 8 3 3 2 11 11 5 23
4 Airdrieonians 15 7 1 7 22 19 7 3 1 3 12 9 8 4 0 4 10 10 3 22
5 Partick Thistle 14 5 6 3 18 13 7 2 4 1 9 7 7 3 2 2 9 6 5 21
6 East Fife 14 6 3 5 18 19 8 5 3 0 13 6 6 1 0 5 5 13 -1 21
7 Peterhead 15 6 2 7 13 16 7 3 1 3 5 7 8 3 1 4 8 9 -3 20
8 Clyde 13 4 2 7 15 26 7 2 1 4 8 15 6 2 1 3 7 11 -11 14
9 Dumbarton 14 3 4 7 6 14 7 2 1 4 2 6 7 1 3 3 4 8 -8 13
10 Forfar Athletic 14 2 5 7 9 20 7 0 2 5 4 12 7 2 3 2 5 8 -11 11

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.