Montrose will aim to make use of their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s opposition. The team playing at home are currently 1 point behind Airdrieonians.
- Montrose have the fewest conceded goals (13) in League One
- Airdrieonians have the fewest points from losing position (0) in League One
The hosts Montrose saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Scottish Cup. This match was also played here at Links Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Airdrieonians have had more rest.
Montrose form and stats
When playing at home in the League One, Montrose have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 7 games.
The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Kelty Hearts (after extra-time, 1-3 on penalties) in the Scottish Cup last time out and are looking for a win here.
Before that, Montrose played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Kelty Hearts.This is expected to be a close game, with Montrose perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Montrose as a small favourite), we find four games. Montrose has won two of these, drawn one and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Montrose as they are travelling to their away game against Dumbarton in the League One. That match is four days after this one.
The Montrose fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 7 matches. On the other hand, Montrose have conceded 9 goals.
Airdrieonians form and stats
As the visiting team in League One matches, Airdrieonians have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.
It's the second away game in a row for Airdrieonians, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Stenhousemuir in the Scottish Cup last time out.
A 0-2 loss hosting Cove Rangers before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Airdrieonians in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Airdrieonians, two draws and five defeats.
After this away game Airdrieonians return home for a League One game against Queen's Park. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Airdrieonians have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. Airdrieonians have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Airdrieonians - Montrose 0-3 was the product when these teams formerly played each other, also in this season. Head to head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Montrose won five games, one match ended in a draw and Airdrieonians have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  G. Webster 9 goals |  C. Gallagher 5 goals | L. Milne 4 goals |
Montrose missing players
Airdrieonians missing players
| Montrose | Airdrieonians | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 10 | 24 |
| 13 | 9 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 19 |
| 87% | 86% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 73% | 71% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 57% | 80% |
| 47% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 73% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 47% | 57% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 53% |
| 47% | 29% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 43% | 27% |
| 20% | 29% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| 6.6 | 6.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.5 | 5 | 6.3 |
| 4.2 | 3.6 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.8 | 11 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.1 | 11.5 |
| 4.2 | 4.6 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.1 | 5 |
| 40% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 32% |
| 8.7 | 9.6 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 10 | 9.2 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
- Airdrieonians have the fewest points from losing position (0) in League One
- Airdrieonians have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Montrose have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Montrose have the fewest conceded goals (13) in League One
- Montrose have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in League One
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cove Rangers | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 31 |
| 2 | Queen's Park | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 31 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 26 |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 26 |
| 4 | Montrose | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 5 | Falkirk | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | -3 | 22 |
| 6 | Alloa Athletic | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 20 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -2 | 18 |
| 8 | Dumbarton | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 18 | -9 | 18 |
| 9 | Clyde | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -12 | 17 |
| 10 | East Fife | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 26 | -18 | 12 |