Football betting preview: Albion Rovers vs Cowdenbeath

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Competition: Scotland League Two
Competition: Tue 13.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Reigart Stadium (2496 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the League Two, Albion Rovers holding 7th place and Cowdenbeath lying 8th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Albion Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (1) in League Two
  • Cowdenbeath have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

It's no vacation for neither Albion nor Cowdenbeath as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Albion Rovers form and stats

Albion Rovers's struggle is real here at The Reigart Stadium with only 4 points collected from 7 League Two games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-5.

It's back home for Albion, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Brechin City away with the result 4-2. R. Stevenson, P. Gallacher, L. Wilson and C. Wilson found the net in that victory. 1-1 away at Stirling Albion before that.

As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Albion handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, one draw and one defeat.

Albion Rovers are traveling soon after this match as the League Two match at Elgin City awaits in four days.

Albion have scored 6 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Albion Rovers have conceded 13 from these games.

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Cowdenbeath form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Cowdenbeath so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-5 (win-draw-lose). Cowdenbeath seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

K. Renton scored in Cowdenbeath's previous match, the home game against Elgin City that ended 1-0. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Stenhousemuir wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Cowdenbeath are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, three draws and six defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

After this away game Cowdenbeath return home for a League Two game against Stirling Albion. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Goals are few and far between in Cowdenbeath's away league games. Only 3 goals from 7 travels. In the opposite end, Cowdenbeath have conceded 12 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Cowdenbeath - Albion 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Albion Rovers four wins, three draws and Cowdenbeath three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Albion RoversM. Aitken
M. Aitken
6 goals
Albion RoversK. Doherty
K. Doherty
2 goals
AlbionJ. Moore
J. Moore
2 goals

Albion Rovers missing players

Cowdenbeath missing players

Albion Rovers Cowdenbeath
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 2 Played P 1 7 15
4 1 0 Won W 0 1 3
2 1 1 Drew D 1 1 3
9 5 1 Lost L 0 5 9
17 6 1 Scored S 0 3 9
31 13 3 Conceded C 0 12 24
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 86% 93%
87% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 43% 60%
53% 57% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 29% 33%
40% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 13%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 7%
53% 57% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 14% 27%
7% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 29% 27%
40% 43% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 71% 53%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.9 2.1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
6.8 6.9 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 4 5.3 5.9
2.7 2.6 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1.4 1.9
42% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 31%
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Albion Rovers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Albion Rovers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Albion Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Albion Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in League Two
  • Albion Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (1) in League Two
  • Albion Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Cowdenbeath have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

  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 15 13 2 0 33 6 7 6 1 0 18 4 8 7 1 0 15 2 27 41
2 Edinburgh City 15 9 2 4 32 18 7 3 1 3 12 9 8 6 1 1 20 9 14 29
3 Stirling Albion 15 8 5 2 22 12 7 4 2 1 6 3 8 4 3 1 16 9 10 29
4 Elgin City 15 9 1 5 27 15 8 5 1 2 15 7 7 4 0 3 12 8 12 28
5 Stranraer 15 6 4 5 23 18 8 4 1 3 13 8 7 2 3 2 10 10 5 22
6 Stenhousemuir 15 5 4 6 20 22 8 4 2 2 13 10 7 1 2 4 7 12 -2 19
7 Albion Rovers 15 4 2 9 17 31 7 1 1 5 6 13 8 3 1 4 11 18 -14 14
8 Cowdenbeath 15 3 3 9 9 24 8 2 2 4 6 12 7 1 1 5 3 12 -15 12
9 Annan Athletic 15 2 5 8 12 22 7 0 2 5 5 15 8 2 3 3 7 7 -10 11
10 Brechin City 15 1 2 12 9 36 8 0 2 6 6 23 7 1 0 6 3 13 -27 5

Read more about League Two

The Scottish League Two is the fourth level of football in Scotland. 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.