Balmoor Stadium: Peterhead vs Cove Rangers League One pre-match guide

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 18.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Balmoor Stadium (4000 seats)

Stadium regulars at Balmoor Stadium haven’t witnessed many victories this season, with Peterhead languishing in the 9th position. The opposing Cove Rangers will believe to protect their higher league spot in this fixture.

Insights:
  • All of Peterhead's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cove Rangers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.

This promises to be an appealing match with lots of fun and excitement as both sides are well revitalized since they last played a game. Game on!

19 - 6 - 12 with 72-49. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Cove Rangers when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Cove Rangers play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

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Peterhead form and stats

Peterhead must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three League One games here at Balmoor Stadium.

Peterhead's previous game was a League One match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Clyde (placed 8th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

Preceding that match was a Challenge Cup defeat to East Fife (0-1).

Goals decide football matches and Peterhead are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Peterhead defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Cove Rangers form and stats

Cove Rangers are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League One, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).

Cove's last game was the home draw against Montrose (1-1).

A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Stenhousemuir (after extra-time, 4-2 on penalties) in the Challenge Cup.

Cove are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Cove Rangers have conceded 5 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Last four meetings between these sides: Peterhead won two, Cove Rangers triumphed in two and we saw zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Cove RangersR. McAllister
R. McAllister
5 goals
Cove RangersM. Megginson
M. Megginson
4 goals
PeterheadR. McLean
R. McLean
3 goals

Peterhead missing players

Cove Rangers missing players

Peterhead Cove Rangers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 3 6
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
4 1 1 Lost L 1 2 2
8 7 2 Scored S 1 4 11
11 5 3 Conceded C 2 5 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 50%
33% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 33%
33% 67% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
50% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 83%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 17%
 
5.3 5.7 7 Corners for (avg) C F 12 5.7 4.3
5.3 3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5 4.5
1.8 1.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.5 13 11 Shots (avg) S ( 16 9.3 10
4.8 7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.3 4.3
28% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 40% 42%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • All of Cove Rangers's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Peterhead's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cove Rangers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Cove Rangers have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • 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 Queen's Park 6 3 3 0 8 2 3 2 1 0 5 0 3 1 2 0 3 2 6 12
2 Montrose 6 3 2 1 10 5 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 2 1 0 6 1 5 11
3 Dumbarton 6 3 1 2 13 9 3 1 1 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 5 4 4 10
4 Falkirk 6 3 1 2 8 6 3 2 0 1 5 2 3 1 1 1 3 4 2 10
5 Cove Rangers 6 2 2 2 11 9 3 1 2 0 7 4 3 1 0 2 4 5 2 8
6 Airdrieonians 6 2 2 2 8 10 3 1 0 2 3 6 3 1 2 0 5 4 -2 8
7 Alloa Athletic 6 2 1 3 8 8 3 2 1 0 6 2 3 0 0 3 2 6 0 7
8 Clyde 6 2 1 3 8 13 3 2 0 1 4 5 3 0 1 2 4 8 -5 7
9 Peterhead 6 2 0 4 8 11 3 2 0 1 7 5 3 0 0 3 1 6 -3 6
10 East Fife 6 1 1 4 7 16 3 1 1 1 4 3 3 0 0 3 3 13 -9 4

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.