Get ready for League One and Montrose - East Fife. In this pre-match guide you'll get numbers, results, numbercrunching, trends and stories!
- Montrose have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (12) 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.
Montrose form and stats
1 victory, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Montrose have to build on here at Links Park in the League One.
Happy days for Montrose in their previous game, a League One match away at Clyde (placed 9th) that ended with a 5-0 victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Montrose played a great game against Clyde and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
In the match before that, Montrose hosted Greenock Morton (after extra-time, 2-4 on penalties) and drew the Challenge Cup game 0-0.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Montrose's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won one match, drawn two and lost zero.
Montrose are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 8 goals have been conceded.
East Fife form and stats
East Fife are still without points from their League One away games. 5 games, 5 defeats. Bitter travels for Fife as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Alloa Athletic match.
Fife are travelling after their nice 4-2 home win in the League One against Cove Rangers (placed 2nd). An insane match with an abundance of goals last time out for East Fife, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fun game, will this match be as refreshing?
A 1-3 defeat away at Raith Rovers before that.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Fife when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing one and winning zero games.
The attacking power of Fife when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Fife can't defend away. 18 goals have been scored by the opposition in 5 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Montrose and East Fife have faced each other previously this season: East Fife - Montrose 0-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Montrose wins - draws - East Fife wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Webster 8 goals | L. Milne 4 goals |  C. Ballantyne 2 goals |
Montrose missing players
East Fife missing players
| Montrose | East Fife | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 18 | 6 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 7 | 18 | 25 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 60% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| 30% | 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 60% | 40% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 40% | 30% |
| 50% | 60% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 50% |
| 40% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 10% | 20% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 6.1 | 6.6 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 4 | 3.6 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.2 | 5.2 |
| 1.7 | 1.6 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.1 | 10.6 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 8.4 | 8.3 |
| 4.2 | 4.4 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| 43% | 27% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 24% | 36% |
- All of East Fife's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- East Fife have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- East Fife have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- East Fife have lost all their away matches so far.
- East Fife have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- East Fife have the fewest points (0) away in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (12) in League One
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (4) away in League One
- East Fife have the most conceded goals (18) away in League One
- East Fife have the most conceded goals (25) in League One
- East Fife have the most conceded goals in the second half (18) in League One
- East Fife have the the worst goal difference (-13) in League One
- East Fife have the the worst goal difference (-14) away in League One
- East Fife haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Montrose have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- 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 | Queen's Park | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 | Cove Rangers | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 4 | Montrose | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | Falkirk | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 14 |
| 6 | Dumbarton | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 14 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 12 |
| 8 | Alloa Athletic | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | Clyde | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -9 | 11 |
| 10 | East Fife | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 18 | -13 | 7 |