Struggling Albion Rovers will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Cowdenbeath in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Albion Rovers form and stats
The story so far in the League Two for Albion Rovers at their home stadium (Cliftonhill Stadium) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The Albion Rovers fans got no joy from their last match, a Scottish Cup game also here at Cliftonhill Stadium: A 1-4 defeat against Airdrieonians. Heartbreak before that as Albion Rovers lost 2-3 at Edinburgh City's place.
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 Albion Rovers have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won 3 Drawn 2 Lost 3.
Albion Rovers have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Cliftonhill Stadium with 10 goals in 6 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Albion Rovers with 13 goals conceded in these matches.
Cowdenbeath form and stats
2-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Cowdenbeath in their League Two matches away.
The supporters enjoyed Cowdenbeath's previous game versus Queen's Park (placed 6th), a League Two 1-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Annan Athletic's place.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Cowdenbeath playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were 2 Cowdenbeath wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Cowdenbeath are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 6 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Cowdenbeath have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Cowdenbeath - Albion Rovers 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Albion Rovers victories, 3 draws and 3 Cowdenbeath wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 8 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
E. East
5 goals
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F. Mullen
5 goals
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D. Byrne
4 goals
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Albion Rovers missing players
Cowdenbeath missing players
| Albion Rovers | Cowdenbeath | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | 10 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 29 | 13 | 7 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 83% | 92% |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 54% |
| 77% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 54% |
| 46% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 31% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 69% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 31% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 23% |
| 4.1 | 5.2 | 2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| 6.5 | 5.3 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 119 | 67 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 54 | 105 |
| 41 | 22 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 22 | 45 |
| 44% | 45% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 36% | 40% |
- Albion Rovers has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Albion Rovers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Albion Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Albion Rovers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Albion Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Albion Rovers is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Cowdenbeath have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Cove Rangers | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 25 | 34 |
| 2 | Edinburgh City | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 29 |
| 3 | Cowdenbeath | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 25 |
| 4 | Annan Athletic | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 17 | -8 | 18 |
| 5 | Elgin City | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Queen's Park | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Stirling Albion | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| 8 | Stenhousemuir | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -11 | 12 |
| 9 | Albion Rovers | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -11 | 11 |
| 10 | Brechin City | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -17 | 7 |