Football betting preview: Peterhead with moderate expectations before welcoming Falkirk

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Competition: Scotland League One
Date: Sat 11.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Balmoor Stadium (4000 seats)

The visiting Falkirk side should be favourites in this visit to Peterhead, as the away team holds a 13 point advantage from their 20 league games this season.

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!

Falkirk play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Falkirk when playing on grass are 13 wins, 8 draws and 15 defeats from 36 matches. They have scored 40 goals and conceded 43 times in these games.

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Peterhead form and stats

When playing at home in the League One, Peterhead have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 10 games.

Peterhead lost their last game at Raith Rovers (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Clyde.

The Peterhead fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 10 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 10 matches.

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Falkirk form and stats

3-6-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Falkirk, who have the most clean sheets (11) in League One, in their League One matches away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Clyde game have they lost an away game, meaning Falkirk has taken points from eight away matches in a row.

Falkirk are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the League One against Dumbarton (placed 6th). Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Airdrieonians.

Falkirk are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 10 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Falkirk - Peterhead 4-0 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Peterhead 1 win, 1 draw and Falkirk 1 victory. As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 1 game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FalkirkD. McManus
D. McManus
11 goals
PeterheadS. Brown
S. Brown
7 goals
FalkirkC. Sammon
C. Sammon
6 goals

Peterhead missing players

Falkirk missing players

Peterhead Falkirk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 3 10 20
6 4 1 Won W 2 3 9
4 3 0 Drew D 0 6 8
10 3 1 Lost L 1 1 3
24 13 3 Scored S 5 12 35
30 8 2 Conceded C 1 7 12
90% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 70% 80%
80% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 60% 70%
60% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 30% 50%
20% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 20%
10% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 10%
55% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 35%
30% 60% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 55%
25% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 40% 30%
 
4 4.5 3.5 Corners For (avg) C F 7.7 5.8 6.7
5.5 4.1 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 2.3 5.6 4.3
2 1.9 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 1.9
2 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 3
 
212 114 25 Total Shots T S 45 119 237
72 41 4 Shots on Target S O 17 45 100
33% 32% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 27% 35%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Falkirk has the fewest conceded goals (12)
  • Falkirk has the fewest conceded goals (7) away
  • Falkirk has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6)
  • Falkirk has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6)
  • Falkirk has the fewest matches over the total-line (8)
  • Falkirk has the most clean sheets (11)
  • Falkirk has the most clean sheets (5) away
  • Falkirk has the most scored goals in the first half (19)
  • Falkirk has the the best goal difference (+23)
  • Falkirk has the the best goal difference (+5) away
  • Falkirk have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Raith Rovers 20 11 5 4 38 25 10 6 3 1 21 9 10 5 2 3 17 16 13 38
2 Airdrieonians 20 11 3 6 31 23 11 5 3 3 17 12 9 6 0 3 14 11 8 36
3 Falkirk 20 9 8 3 35 12 10 6 2 2 23 5 10 3 6 1 12 7 23 35
4 Montrose 20 10 2 8 32 26 10 5 0 5 18 14 10 5 2 3 14 12 6 32
5 East Fife 20 8 8 4 31 25 10 3 5 2 16 13 10 5 3 2 15 12 6 32
6 Dumbarton 20 8 4 8 28 35 10 3 2 5 12 14 10 5 2 3 16 21 -7 28
7 Peterhead 20 6 4 10 24 30 10 4 3 3 13 8 10 2 1 7 11 22 -6 22
8 Clyde 20 5 7 8 25 33 10 3 4 3 18 14 10 2 3 5 7 19 -8 22
9 Forfar Athletic 20 5 3 12 20 32 10 3 1 6 13 18 10 2 2 6 7 14 -12 18
10 Stranraer 20 2 6 12 22 45 9 2 2 5 11 17 11 0 4 7 11 28 -23 12

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.