Annan Athletic bring their bags for Edinburgh City and Ainslie Park Stadium loaded with hope and confidence, but the hosts is no pushover. More info on the game here!
- Edinburgh City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Annan Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in League Two
Annan Athletic are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table. Edinburgh City's stadium, Ainslie Park Stadium, has a grass surface. Annan Athletic have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Annan Athletic when playing on grass; 13 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses from 24 matches. They have scored 41 goals in these games and conceded 21.
Edinburgh City and Annan Athletic should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Edinburgh City form and stats
Edinburgh City have collected 23 points from their League Two home games so far after 6-5-6.
The Edinburgh goalkeeper Brian Schwake is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 222 minutes without conceding a goal in the League Two.
Edinburgh City drew their last game, 0-0 away at Cowdenbeath (placed 10th).
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Forfar Athletic in a game that was won 2-0.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 Edinburgh City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won five, drawn two and lost two.
The Edinburgh City fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 21 in 17 matches. Edinburgh have conceded 24 in these home matches.
Annan Athletic form and stats
Annan Athletic have an excellent away record in the League Two so far with 11-1-5 from 17 games.
Two away games in a row for Annan Athletic, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-5 versus Forfar Athletic. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Forfar Athletic was particularly ugly (1-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 2-3 defeat against Cowdenbeath.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Annan Athletic in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Annan Athletic, zero draws and three defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Annan's attacking play in away games, having scored 30 goals in 17 league matches away. 20 goals have been conceded by Annan Athletic in these games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have fought previously this season: Annan Athletic - Edinburgh City 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Edinburgh victories, one draw and three Annan Athletic wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Wallace 13 goals | T. Goss 12 goals | A. Smith 8 goals |
Edinburgh City missing players
Annan Athletic missing players
| Edinburgh City | Annan Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 34 | 17 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 17 | 34 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 11 | 18 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 41 | 21 | 5 | Scored | S | 5 | 30 | 62 |
| 43 | 24 | 8 | Conceded | C | 3 | 20 | 47 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 74% | 76% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 82% | 85% |
| 44% | 47% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 53% | 62% |
| 29% | 35% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 35% | 44% |
| 6% | 6% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 18% | 24% |
| 50% | 53% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 47% | 62% |
| 29% | 29% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 41% | 26% |
| 26% | 18% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 12% | 15% |
| 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
| 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.7 | 5.4 |
| 1.6 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6.8 | 6.6 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 8.5 | 10.2 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 1.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 |
| 42% | 46% | 71% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 45% | 39% |
| 11.4 | 10.2 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.5 | 11.2 | 10.8 |
| 4.7 | 4.6 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.7 | 4 |
- Annan Athletic have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in League Two
- Annan Athletic have the fewest matches under the total-line (12) in League Two
- Annan Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in League Two
- Annan Athletic have the most points from losing position (18) in League Two
- Annan Athletic have the most scored goals in the second half (36) in League Two
- Annan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Edinburgh City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Edinburgh City 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 | Kelty Hearts | 34 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 65 | 26 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 39 | 77 |
| 2 | Annan Athletic | 34 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 62 | 47 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 20 | 15 | 59 |
| 3 | Forfar Athletic | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 56 | 35 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 21 | 58 |
| 4 | Edinburgh City | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 41 | 43 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 19 | -2 | 49 |
| 5 | Stenhousemuir | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 46 | 43 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 48 |
| 6 | Stranraer | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 45 | 53 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 27 | -8 | 41 |
| 7 | Stirling Albion | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 45 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 19 | -10 | 38 |
| 8 | Elgin City | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 32 | 45 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 28 | -13 | 37 |
| 9 | Albion Rovers | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 35 | 57 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 25 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 32 | -22 | 35 |
| 10 | Cowdenbeath | 34 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 47 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 27 | -23 | 26 |
