League One: Queen's Park - Airdrieonians pre-match guide and stats

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Competition: Scotland League One
Competition: Sat 29.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Firhill Stadium (13079 seats)

This is shaping out to be an absorbing match as Queen's Park have their supposed home advantage, while Airdrieonians are ahead 13 points in the League One standings.

Insights:
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in League One
  • Airdrieonians have the most scored goals in the first half (17) in League One

This football field has grass, which is not Airdrieonians's familiar surface at their own ground. When appearing on grass Airdrieonians have performed like this: Played 20 matches with the results 8 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats with the goal stats 20-24 (scored/conceded).

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the League One. That game was also an away game, at Clyde. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Queen's Park form and stats

4-4-1 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Queen's Park so far this season.

The home team returns to Firhill Stadium after drawing with Clyde (placed 6th) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1.

A 1-1 draw away before that, with Alloa Athletic the opponent.

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's have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won three times, drawn four and lost one.

The Queen's Park manager Speirs has got the team scoring with 19 from 9 home games in the league. Queen's Park are not conceding a lot of goals here at Firhill Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 9 matches.

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Airdrieonians form and stats

As the visiting team in League One matches, Airdrieonians have produced an overall stat of 4-3-3 so far.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Clyde (placed 6th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2.

We have checked recent matches where Airdrieonians have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were one victory, three draws and four defeats.

Airdrieonians have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 14 goals have been scored. 11 goals have been conceded by Airdrieonians in these games.

Head 2 Head

Queen's Park and Airdrieonians have duelled before this season: Airdrieonians - Queen's Park 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: zero - six - four (Queen's wins - draws - Airdrieonians wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AirdrieoniansC. Gallagher
C. Gallagher
7 goals
AirdrieoniansD. Easton
D. Easton
6 goals
Queen's ParkL. Longridge
L. Longridge
5 goals

Queen's Park missing players

Airdrieonians missing players

Queen's Park Airdrieonians
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 2 Played P 2 10 22
6 4 1 Won W 1 4 13
11 4 1 Drew D 1 3 3
3 1 0 Lost L 0 3 6
34 19 3 Scored S 5 14 38
21 8 1 Conceded C 2 11 26
90% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
80% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 77%
40% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 73%
25% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 32%
20% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 14%
60% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 55%
35% 56% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 40% 32%
15% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 18%
 
5.9 6.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 7.5 6.2 6.7
3.9 3.6 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.4 3.6
1.8 1.2 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.6
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11 13.4 10 Shots (avg) S ( 14 12.7 11.9
4.5 6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 5.3 5.2
38% 35% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 26% 33%
 
8.3 7.6 6 Shots against (avg) S A 6 9.8 9.2
3.4 2.9 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 4 3.9
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Airdrieonians have the fewest points from losing position (0) in League One
  • Airdrieonians have the most matches over the total-line (14) in League One
  • Airdrieonians have the most scored goals in the first half (17) in League One
  • Queen's Park have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queen's Park have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in League One
  • Queen's Park have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the fewest matches over the total-line (7) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the most dropped points from leading position (22) in League One
  • Queen's Park have the most matches under the total-line (11) 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 22 15 4 3 44 19 11 8 3 0 27 9 11 7 1 3 17 10 25 49
2 Airdrieonians 22 13 3 6 38 26 12 9 0 3 24 15 10 4 3 3 14 11 12 42
3 Montrose 22 10 9 3 36 18 11 4 5 2 16 12 11 6 4 1 20 6 18 39
4 Queen's Park 20 6 11 3 34 21 9 4 4 1 19 8 11 2 7 2 15 13 13 29
5 Falkirk 21 8 4 9 31 33 11 4 1 6 16 17 10 4 3 3 15 16 -2 28
6 Clyde 22 6 8 8 27 38 11 3 4 4 15 22 11 3 4 4 12 16 -11 26
7 Peterhead 21 6 5 10 29 33 11 4 4 3 16 10 10 2 1 7 13 23 -4 23
8 Alloa Athletic 21 5 7 9 28 35 10 3 3 4 15 16 11 2 4 5 13 19 -7 22
9 Dumbarton 21 6 3 12 29 44 11 2 3 6 15 20 10 4 0 6 14 24 -15 21
10 East Fife 22 3 4 15 21 50 10 3 2 5 11 14 12 0 2 10 10 36 -29 13

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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.