3rd spot in the League Two table for East Fife at present, a good showing. The match-going supporters pray for more points as 5th-placed Stenhousemuir visit Bayview Stadium.
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in League Two
- All of Stenhousemuir's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
It's no vacation for neither Fife nor Stenhousemuir 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.
East Fife form and stats
East Fife have played three League Two home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
East Fife travelled for their previous game, a trip to Annan Athletic that ended 2-2. Opportunity lost for East Fife in the Annan Athletic match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Dumbarton (0-1).This is expected to be a close game, with Fife perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with East Fife as a small favourite), we find 9 games. East Fife has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.
East Fife are traveling soon after this match as the Challenge Cup match at Arbroath awaits in four days.
The lack of attacking qualities in Fife means that they have only scored 1 goal in 3 league home games, less than half a goal per match. East Fife have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Stenhousemuir form and stats
Stenhousemuir are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League Two, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
There were no winners in Stenhousemuir's previous match, the home game that ended 3-3 vs Elgin City (placed 7th). As you can tell from the result, the match against Elgin City was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Before that, Stenhousemuir secured a home win against Stranraer with the score 3-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Stenhousemuir in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Stenhousemuir, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
Lots of goals? This side have played 6 consecutive league games all with three or more goals (over 2.5 goals).
3 goals so far away for Stenhousemuir, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 3 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
East Fife have avoided defeat in the last 5 fixtures (3-2-0) facing Stenhousemuir.Top Goalscorers
  S. Shepherd 3 goals |  S. Crighton 2 goals | W. Sewell 2 goals |
East Fife missing players
Stenhousemuir missing players
| East Fife | Stenhousemuir | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 14% |
| 2.9 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
| 3.7 | 3 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 6.7 | 5.9 |
| 1.4 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.9 | 6 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 9.3 | 11.1 |
| 2.9 | 2.3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3 | 3.7 |
| 45% | 14% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 11 | 6.3 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 14.7 | 13.3 |
| 3.4 | 2.7 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 6.7 | 5.3 |
- All of Stenhousemuir's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- East Fife have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in League Two
- East Fife have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- East Fife haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stenhousemuir have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Stenhousemuir 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 | Dumbarton | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 21 |
| 2 | Stirling Albion | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | East Fife | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 5 | Stenhousemuir | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 6 | Annan Athletic | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 7 | Elgin City | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | Forfar Athletic | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Stranraer | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 6 |
| 10 | Albion Rovers | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -3 | 5 |
