Possible nail-biting contest in Edinburgh City - Stenhousemuir game

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Competition: Scotland League Two
Competition: Wed 02.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ainslie Park Stadium (5000 seats)

Glory for the home side, the away team steals the points or a tactical 0-0 draw? Anything can happen when the mid-table inhabitants Edinburgh City and Stenhousemuir meet at Ainslie Park Stadium.

Insights:
  • Edinburgh City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Stenhousemuir is in the best form (4-1-1) in League Two

Edinburgh City's stadium, Ainslie Park Stadium, has a grass surface. Stenhousemuir 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 Stenhousemuir when playing on grass; 10 wins, 9 draws and 12 losses from 31 matches. They have scored 37 goals in these games and conceded 47.

Stenhousemuir could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a League Two game only four sleeps ago.

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Edinburgh City form and stats

Edinburgh City have collected 18 points from their League Two home games so far after 5-3-5.

A nice win for Edinburgh City last time playing, versus Cowdenbeath. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Shanley scoring for the victors.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Annan Athletic (1-2).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Edinburgh as they are travelling to their away game against Albion Rovers in the League Two. That match is three days after this one.

The Edinburgh City fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 13 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 20 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Stenhousemuir form and stats

6-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Stenhousemuir in their League Two matches away.

Stenhousemuir won their last game, 2-0 versus Forfar Athletic played at home.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Stranraer that ended 1-1.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The League Two trip to Stirling Albion.

The travelling fans enjoy Stenhousemuir's attacking play in away games, having scored 20 goals in 12 league matches away. As opposed to that, Stenhousemuir have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Stenhousemuir - Edinburgh City 2-2 was the story when these squads last met, some time ago this season. Stats for the preceeding ten meetings between these two squads are: five wins for Edinburgh, two draws and three wins for Stenhousemuir. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

StenhousemuirT. Orr
T. Orr
12 goals
Edinburgh CityJ. Robertson
J. Robertson
7 goals
Edinburgh CityD. Handling
D. Handling
6 goals

Edinburgh City missing players

Stenhousemuir missing players

Edinburgh City Stenhousemuir
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
26 13 1 Played P 2 12 25
11 5 1 Won W 0 6 10
6 3 0 Drew D 1 3 6
9 5 0 Lost L 1 3 9
35 16 3 Scored S 1 20 37
37 20 1 Conceded C 3 16 37
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 69% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 92%
54% 54% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 52%
38% 46% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 32%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
54% 46% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 58% 64%
23% 31% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 16%
23% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 25% 20%
 
3 2.6 1 Corners for (avg) C F 1 3.2 4.8
5.5 4.5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 4 4.6
1.7 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
7.4 6.8 11 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.4 10.5
3.2 2.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.8 4.3
43% 47% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 34% 34%
 
11.8 9.8 11 Shots against (avg) S A 14 9.2 9.7
5.3 4.8 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 3.6 3.8
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Edinburgh City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Stenhousemuir have the fewest clean sheets (4) in League Two
  • Stenhousemuir have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Stenhousemuir haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Stenhousemuir is in the best form (4-1-1) in League Two

  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 25 18 4 3 54 23 14 11 3 0 30 9 11 7 1 3 24 14 31 58
2 Forfar Athletic 26 13 7 6 46 29 13 9 2 2 28 14 13 4 5 4 18 15 17 46
3 Annan Athletic 26 13 5 8 43 32 13 5 4 4 22 18 13 8 1 4 21 14 11 44
4 Edinburgh City 26 11 6 9 35 37 13 5 3 5 16 20 13 6 3 4 19 17 -2 39
5 Stenhousemuir 25 10 6 9 37 37 13 4 3 6 17 21 12 6 3 3 20 16 0 36
6 Stranraer 27 8 8 11 34 42 14 4 4 6 13 21 13 4 4 5 21 21 -8 32
7 Elgin City 27 7 7 13 27 41 14 5 5 4 17 15 13 2 2 9 10 26 -14 28
8 Stirling Albion 25 7 6 12 30 36 11 3 2 6 14 18 14 4 4 6 16 18 -6 27
9 Albion Rovers 24 7 5 12 27 38 11 5 1 5 15 15 13 2 4 7 12 23 -11 26
10 Cowdenbeath 25 5 4 16 17 35 12 3 2 7 11 16 13 2 2 9 6 19 -18 19

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.