Peterhead vs Cove Rangers: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sun 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Balmoor Stadium (4000 seats)

Cove Rangers pay a visit to Peterhead and Balmoor Stadium loaded with hope and confidence, but the hosting team is no weakling. More information on the fixture here!

Insights:
  • Cove Rangers have the most scored goals (41) in League One

Cove Rangers play their home matches on artifical turf, while this game takes place on grass. The latest stats for Cove Rangers when featuring on grass are 13 wins, 4 draws and 11 defeats from 28 matches. They have created 54 goals and conceded 47 times in these fixtures.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Peterhead form and stats

All-inclusive League One statistics playing at home this season for Peterhead are 4-3-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The fans are hoping that Peterhead will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the League One game against Montrose (placed 2nd).

In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Dumbarton.

A decent goal production from Peterhead in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 9 league matches. Peterhead are not conceding a lot of goals here at Balmoor Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 9 matches.

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Cove Rangers form and stats

As the visiting team in League One matches, Cove Rangers, who have the most scored goals (41) in League One, have produced an overall stat of 5-1-3 so far. Cove Rangers have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of six victories in a row regardless of arena.

Megginson, Yule, McIntosh and Leitch scored in Cove Rangers's previous match, the home game against East Fife that ended 4-2. A loony fixture with masses of goals last time out for Cove, as mentioned above. 6 goals in total, will this game be as refreshing?

Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Alloa Athletic.

Cove Rangers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. 10 goals have been conceded by Cove in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Cove Rangers - Peterhead 3-0 was the outcome when this pair of squads previously did battle, some time ago this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's two Peterhead victories, zero draws and four Cove Rangers wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Cove RangersR. McAllister
R. McAllister
12 goals
Cove RangersM. Megginson
M. Megginson
10 goals
PeterheadR. McLean
R. McLean
8 goals

Peterhead missing players

Cove Rangers missing players

Peterhead Cove Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 2 9 19
6 4 0 Won W 0 5 12
4 3 1 Drew D 0 1 4
9 2 1 Lost L 2 3 3
28 15 2 Scored S 1 15 41
31 8 3 Conceded C 4 10 19
89% 78% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
79% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 84%
63% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 56% 58%
42% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 32%
32% 33% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 21%
53% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 44% 47%
21% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 44% 47%
37% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 22% 11%
 
6.3 5.6 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 6.8 5.7
6.1 5.7 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.4 3.6
1.9 1.7 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
9.6 10 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 10.2 11.9
3.8 4.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.7 4.8
39% 37% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 45% 45%
 
10.3 9.7 10 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 6.8 7.1
4.1 3.8 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 3.3 2.8
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Cove Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Cove Rangers have the most clean sheets (9) in League One
  • Cove Rangers have the most scored goals (41) in League One
  • Cove Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (32) in League One
  • Cove Rangers have the the best goal difference (+22) in League One
  • Cove Rangers is in the best form (6-0-0) 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 19 12 4 3 41 19 10 7 3 0 26 9 9 5 1 3 15 10 22 40
2 Montrose 19 9 8 2 33 16 10 4 4 2 15 11 9 5 4 0 18 5 17 35
3 Airdrieonians 17 9 2 6 28 22 9 6 0 3 17 13 8 3 2 3 11 9 6 29
4 Queen's Park 17 6 9 2 32 18 9 4 4 1 19 8 8 2 5 1 13 10 14 27
5 Clyde 18 6 5 7 23 33 8 3 2 3 12 18 10 3 3 4 11 15 -10 23
6 Peterhead 19 6 4 9 28 31 9 4 3 2 15 8 10 2 1 7 13 23 -3 22
7 Falkirk 18 6 4 8 21 28 10 3 1 6 10 15 8 3 3 2 11 13 -7 22
8 Alloa Athletic 19 5 5 9 26 33 9 3 2 4 14 15 10 2 3 5 12 18 -7 20
9 Dumbarton 18 5 3 10 25 37 9 1 3 5 13 19 9 4 0 5 12 18 -12 18
10 East Fife 18 3 4 11 21 41 8 3 2 3 11 10 10 0 2 8 10 31 -20 13

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.