The league table in League Two tells a story about these teams so far, with Elgin City leading Annan Athletic by 5 points. Match preview to follow:
- Elgin City has the most scored goals (14) in League Two
- Annan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Annan Athletic have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 16-2-16 (win-draw-loss) from 34 matches.
Elgin City form and stats
Elgin City, who have the most scored goals (14) in League Two, must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three League Two games here at Borough Briggs.
The Elgin supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Cowdenbeath in League Two and win 5-2. In the game before, an away victory match versus Stirling Albion with a 2-1 scoreline.
A goal frenzy last time out for Elgin, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Cowdenbeath. Fun stuff to watch! What a game it was for K. Hester when beating Cowdenbeath, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Elgin City matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, zero draws and one defeat (from two games).
Elgin are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (8 goals in 3 games). On the other hand, Elgin City have conceded 3 goals.
Annan Athletic form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the League Two away games so far for Annan Athletic with six points collected from three matches.
Annan failed to get anything from their last game, a League Two home match vs Edinburgh City (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 0-4. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Stenhousemuir.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Edinburgh City was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Annan when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing zero and winning one game.
Annan Athletic has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. It's not easy to score on Annan Athletic as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Elgin won three, Annan Athletic won five and two draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Hester 6 goals | R. Dingwall 2 goals | C. O’Keefe 2 goals |
Elgin City missing players
Annan Athletic missing players
| Elgin City | Annan Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | 8 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 12.7 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 7.7 | 8.7 |
| 5 | 6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| 47% | 44% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 71% | 47% |
- Annan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Elgin City has the most scored goals (14) in League Two
- Elgin City has the most scored goals in the second half (9) in League Two
- Elgin City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Elgin City 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 | Queen's Park | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 16 |
| 2 | Elgin City | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 3 | Stirling Albion | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | Stranraer | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | Stenhousemuir | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Annan Athletic | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Cowdenbeath | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -7 | 4 |
| 9 | Albion Rovers | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -6 | 3 |
| 10 | Brechin City | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -16 | 3 |