Victory alone will suffice for the Forfar Athletic regulars in this Station Park duel with Elgin City, seeing as they have a healthy lead on the away team in the League Two table.
- Forfar Athletic have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in League Two
- Elgin City have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in League Two
Forfar Athletic and Elgin City 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.
Elgin City play their home games on grass, while this fixture will take part on artifical turf. Up to date stats for Elgin City when featuring on artifical turf are 5 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats from eleven matches. They have scored 19 goals and conceded 11 times in these games.
Forfar Athletic form and stats
The story so far in the League Two for Forfar Athletic at their home stadium (Station Park) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Station Park.
A good away victory last time out for Forfar Athletic, who won 3-2 against Stranraer (placed 6th).
Before that match, a Scottish Cup win away at Formartine United.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Forfar Athletic's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won one match, drawn two and lost zero.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (10 in 5 games), Forfar Athletic's attacking play is working. Forfar Athletic have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Elgin City form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Elgin City playing as the away team in the League Two this season.
The attacking players of Elgin have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 194 minutes.
The manager G. Price was unhappy after their last game, a Scottish Cup match played at their home ground Borough Briggs. Elgin suffered a 1-2 loss to Clydebank.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Clydebank.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Elgin when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing two and winning one game.
The attacking power of Elgin when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Elgin City have conceded 9 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Elgin City - Forfar Athletic 1-1 was the product when these two participants formerly played each other, some time ago this season. Statistics for the former ten meetings featuring these two sides are: five wins for Forfar Athletic, five draws and zero wins for Elgin City. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  M. Aitken 5 goals | S. McCluskey 4 goals | C. Thomson 3 goals |
Forfar Athletic missing players
Elgin City missing players
| Forfar Athletic | Elgin City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 27% | 40% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 27% | 40% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 64% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 50% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 4.9 | 5.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| 3.7 | 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.2 | 5.8 |
| 1.3 | 0.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1 | 5.6 | 7.8 |
| 3.9 | 3.2 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.8 | 2.8 |
| 42% | 62% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 44% | 32% |
| 9.5 | 10.8 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 13.6 | 11.6 |
| 3.9 | 4 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 6.4 | 5.2 |
- All of Elgin City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Forfar Athletic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Elgin City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Elgin City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Elgin City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Elgin City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Elgin City have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in League Two
- Elgin City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Elgin City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Forfar Athletic have not yet lost a game at home.
- Forfar Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Forfar Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Forfar Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Elgin City have scored away.
- Forfar Athletic have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Forfar Athletic have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in League Two
- Forfar Athletic have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in League Two
- Forfar Athletic have the most matches under the total-line (8) in League Two
- Forfar Athletic have the most scored goals (10) at home in League Two
- Forfar Athletic have the the best goal difference (+6) at home in League Two
- Forfar Athletic 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 | Kelty Hearts | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 27 |
| 2 | Stirling Albion | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | Forfar Athletic | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| 4 | Annan Athletic | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 6 | Stranraer | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -5 | 12 |
| 7 | Albion Rovers | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 10 |
| 8 | Stenhousemuir | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Elgin City | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -6 | 9 |
| 10 | Cowdenbeath | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 6 |