Montrose and Dumbarton have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the League One.
- Montrose has the most conceded goals (14) in League One
- Dumbarton has the most clean sheets (5) in League One
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Dumbarton have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-5-11 (win-draw-loss) from 23 matches.
Montrose form and stats
Montrose have played three League One home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
In the game before, an away victory match versus Cove Rangers with a 2-1 scoreline.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Montrose have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found nine games) they have won nine times, drawn zero and lost zero.
There will be little rest for Montrose after this match as they are travelling to Peterhead for a League One game in only three days.
Montrose has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Montrose with 6 goals conceded in these matches.
Dumbarton form and stats
1-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Dumbarton, who have the most clean sheets (5) in League One, in their League One matches away.
193 minutes! That's how long the Dumbarton goalkeeper Maciej Kevin Dabrowski and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Before that, Dumbarton travelled to Partick Thistle and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
Dumbarton are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, zero draws and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dumbarton as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Dumbarton are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Montrose five wins, two draws and Dumbarton three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. McLean 5 goals | G. Webster 3 goals | P. Watson 2 goals |
Montrose missing players
Dumbarton missing players
| Montrose | Dumbarton | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 14 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 60% | 75% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 40% | 38% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 62% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 12% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 60% | 62% |
| 12% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 60% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.9 | 8.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.5 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 44% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 12% | 27% |
- Dumbarton has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in League One
- Dumbarton has the most clean sheets (3) away in League One
- Dumbarton has the most clean sheets (5) in League One
- Montrose has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in League One
- Montrose has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in League One
- Montrose has the most conceded goals (14) in League One
- Montrose has the most matches over the total-line (5) in League One
- Montrose has the most points from losing position (7) in League One
- Montrose has the most scored goals in the second half (10) in League One
- Montrose have scored more than double the goals of Dumbarton.
- Montrose 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 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 20 |
| 2 | Partick Thistle | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Cove Rangers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | Montrose | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 6 | Airdrieonians | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 9 |
| 8 | East Fife | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -4 | 7 |
| 9 | Clyde | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -9 | 6 |
| 10 | Forfar Athletic | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 5 |