League One duel: Close contest expected between Peterhead and Montrose

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Tue 22.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Balmoor Stadium (4000 seats)

Peterhead will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Montrose.

Insights:
  • Peterhead haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Montrose has the most scored goals (18) in League One

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

This stadium uses grass, unlike Montrose's home stadium. The visitors last 22 games on grass have ended in 6 wins, 5 draws and 11 losses.

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Peterhead form and stats

The story so far in the League One for Peterhead at their home stadium (Balmoor Stadium) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

Peterhead enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Partick Thistle's place. The match ended 1-0 with S. Brown scoring. Sensational by Peterhead last match, beating Partick Thistle away as big underdogs. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against East Fife.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Peterhead have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost four.

Peterhead have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Peterhead have conceded 4 goals.

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Montrose form and stats

As the visiting team in League One matches, Montrose, who have the most scored goals (18) in League One, have produced an overall stat of 3-1-1 so far. Momentum is building for Montrose in their away games, having won their two previous outings.

Montrose have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Allan Fleming. It's been 232 minutes since they last conceded in League One.

Montrose are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the League One against Dumbarton (placed 6th). Preceding that game was the away victory against Airdrieonians with the score of 1-0.

As you can tell from the results above, Montrose was very dominant against Dumbarton, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Cameron Ballantyne I (2), R. McLean and A. Steeves providing the goals.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Montrose in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Montrose, one draw and two defeats.

The Montrose manager S. Petrie has got the team scoring on the road, with 10 away goals in 5 league matches. Montrose struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 8 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Montrose - Peterhead 3-2 earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Peterhead, two draws and five wins for Montrose. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

MontroseR. McLean
R. McLean
6 goals
PeterheadS. Brown
S. Brown
3 goals
PeterheadB. Armour
B. Armour
3 goals

Peterhead missing players

Montrose missing players

Peterhead Montrose
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 1 5 9
4 2 0 Won W 1 3 5
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
5 2 0 Lost L 0 1 3
9 3 0 Scored S 2 10 18
11 4 0 Conceded C 1 8 14
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 78%
33% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 78%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 60% 67%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 33%
33% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 67%
33% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 22%
33% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 11%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.3 9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 4 10.6 10.2
3.2 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4 4.2
31% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 50% 47%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Montrose has the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in League One
  • Montrose has the most matches over the total-line (6) in League One
  • Montrose has the most points from losing position (7) in League One
  • Montrose has the most scored goals (18) in League One
  • Montrose has the most scored goals in the second half (11) in League One
  • Montrose have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Montrose have scored at least twice as many goals away as Peterhead have scored home.
  • Montrose have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Montrose 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 Falkirk 8 6 2 0 17 5 4 3 1 0 6 2 4 3 1 0 11 3 12 20
2 Montrose 9 5 1 3 18 14 4 2 0 2 8 6 5 3 1 1 10 8 4 16
3 Partick Thistle 9 4 2 3 9 6 5 2 2 1 6 4 4 2 0 2 3 2 3 14
4 Cove Rangers 9 4 1 4 13 9 5 3 0 2 10 6 4 1 1 2 3 3 4 13
5 Peterhead 9 4 0 5 9 11 4 2 0 2 3 4 5 2 0 3 6 7 -2 12
6 Dumbarton 9 3 2 4 5 10 3 2 0 1 2 3 6 1 2 3 3 7 -5 11
7 Airdrieonians 8 3 1 4 12 9 5 2 1 2 8 4 3 1 0 2 4 5 3 10
8 East Fife 8 3 1 4 10 12 4 3 1 0 8 3 4 0 0 4 2 9 -2 10
9 Clyde 7 3 0 4 7 15 4 2 0 2 4 7 3 1 0 2 3 8 -8 9
10 Forfar Athletic 8 1 2 5 5 14 4 0 1 3 3 8 4 1 1 2 2 6 -9 5

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.