League One preview: Can Queen of the South edge out victory against Edinburgh City?

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Palmerston Park (8690 seats)

The visiting Edinburgh City team are thought to be odds-on favourites at Queen of the South, as the guests have a 9 point edge from their 23 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Queen of the South have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in League One
  • Edinburgh City have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in League One

7 - 4 - 8 with 34-34. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Edinburgh City when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Edinburgh City play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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.

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Queen of the South form and stats

All-inclusive League One results at home this season for Queen of the South are 4-2-5 (wins-draws-losses).

Queen enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Peterhead's place. The match ended 3-1.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Montrose (0-1).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Queen of the South have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Lots of goals and action? We don't know about this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 most recent league games with this side has had at least three goals.

Queen of the South are traveling soon after this match as the Challenge Cup match at Hamilton Academical awaits in three days.

The Queen of the South fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 17 goals in 11 league matches. Queen's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Edinburgh City form and stats

6-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Edinburgh City, who have the most scored goals (24) away in League One, in their League One matches away. Recent form does not give Edinburgh City much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Queen of the South will be a tough nut to crack.

Edinburgh City might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Falkirk proved too strong as Edinburgh City slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Ainslie Park Stadium.

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Alloa Athletic's place.

Edinburgh are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

The Edinburgh City manager Maybury has got the team scoring on the road, with 24 away goals in 11 league matches. As opposed to that, Edinburgh City have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Queen of the South have been victorious in every one of the 5 latest matches versus this side. Another win today?

The teams have faced each other previously this season, with the match result Edinburgh City - Queen 0-3 registered in the official records.

Top Goalscorers

Queen of the SouthR. Paton
R. Paton
13 goals
Edinburgh CityD. Handling
D. Handling
11 goals
Edinburgh CityJ. Robertson
J. Robertson
10 goals

Queen of the South missing players

Edinburgh City missing players

Queen of the South Edinburgh City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 3 11 23
8 4 0 Won W 2 6 12
5 2 0 Drew D 1 1 2
10 5 2 Lost L 0 4 9
37 17 1 Scored S 5 24 44
38 16 5 Conceded C 1 16 34
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 91%
61% 55% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 55% 61%
43% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 35%
26% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 36% 22%
65% 64% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 55% 43%
22% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 27% 30%
17% 9% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 26%
 
5.7 5.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 3.6
4.3 3.9 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5 5.9
1.8 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.5 1.7
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
9.7 9.4 5.5 Shots (avg) S ( 4.7 7 7.6
4 4.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 4 4.1
40% 34% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 55% 46%
 
8.5 8.1 14.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10 10 11
3.3 3.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 4.5 5
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Edinburgh City have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in League One
  • Edinburgh City have the most points from losing position (11) in League One
  • Edinburgh City have the most scored goals (24) away in League One
  • Edinburgh City have the most scored goals in the second half (29) in League One
  • Edinburgh City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Queen of the South have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in League One
  • Queen of the South haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dunfermline Athletic 21 13 7 1 33 12 10 5 5 0 16 8 11 8 2 1 17 4 21 46
2 Falkirk 21 12 5 4 44 24 12 8 2 2 27 11 9 4 3 2 17 13 20 41
3 Edinburgh City 23 12 2 9 44 34 12 6 1 5 20 18 11 6 1 4 24 16 10 38
4 Airdrieonians 22 10 6 6 44 31 10 6 2 2 27 15 12 4 4 4 17 16 13 36
5 Alloa Athletic 22 10 5 7 39 33 10 7 1 2 23 12 12 3 4 5 16 21 6 35
6 Montrose 23 9 7 7 34 30 12 6 4 2 22 13 11 3 3 5 12 17 4 34
7 Queen of the South 23 8 5 10 37 38 11 4 2 5 17 16 12 4 3 5 20 22 -1 29
8 Kelty Hearts 23 8 5 10 26 33 11 5 3 3 13 10 12 3 2 7 13 23 -7 29
9 Clyde 23 2 5 16 25 48 12 1 4 7 16 24 11 1 1 9 9 24 -23 11
10 Peterhead 23 2 5 16 12 55 12 2 2 8 6 24 11 0 3 8 6 31 -43 11

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.