Match preview League Two: Queen's Park - Edinburgh City at Hampden Park

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Competition: Scotland League Two
Competition: Sat 12.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Hampden Park (52103 seats)

A key match in League Two as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Queen's Park in 1st position and Edinburgh City placed 3rd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Queen's Park has the fewest conceded goals (1) in League Two
  • Edinburgh City has the most scored goals in the first half (8) in League Two

Queen's Park and Edinburgh 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.

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Queen's Park form and stats

As mentioned below, Queen's Park are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 League Two games. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Queen's Park has won six games in a row. The Stirling Albion match was the last time out without a victory.

Happy days for Queen's in their previous game, a League Two match away at Cowdenbeath (placed 8th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Before that, Queen's had a home game versus Stenhousemuir which ended with a victory 3-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Queen's handle that role? We have found ten games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, four draws and two defeats.

Queen's Park are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Hampden Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 8 goals in 3 matches. Queen's have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Edinburgh City form and stats

Edinburgh City have six points from their first three away games in the League Two, meaning two victories and a loss.

Edinburgh won their last game, 5-2 versus Albion Rovers played at home. Prior to that result Edinburgh won their away game at Annan Athletic. The scoreline was 4-0.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Edinburgh City, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? It's hard not to mention L. Henderson's lethal finishing against Albion Rovers. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.

We have checked recent matches where Edinburgh City have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were zero victories, one draw and two defeats.

Edinburgh City are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (9 goals from 3 away games). 3 goals have been conceded by Edinburgh City in these games.

Head 2 Head

Last nine meetings between the teams: Queen's won three, Edinburgh City won five and one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Edinburgh CityL. Henderson
L. Henderson
4 goals
Edinburgh CityB. Henderson
B. Henderson
3 goals
Queen's ParkR. McHugh
R. McHugh
2 goals

Queen's Park missing players

Edinburgh City missing players

Queen's Park Edinburgh City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 0 Played P 0 3 7
6 3 0 Won W 0 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
13 8 0 Scored S 0 9 15
1 1 0 Conceded C 0 3 7
86% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
57% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 57%
43% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 43%
14% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 67% 43%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 29%
14% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 29%
86% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 29%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 43%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.9 16 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 17 13.3
4.7 6.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 7.7 6
39% 42% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 39% 36%
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • All of Edinburgh City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Queen's Park's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Edinburgh City has the most scored goals in the first half (8) in League Two
  • Edinburgh City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Edinburgh City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Queen's Park has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the fewest conceded goals (1) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (0) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the most clean sheets (6) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the most matches under the total-line (5) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the most points from losing position (3) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the the best goal difference (+12) in League Two
  • Queen's Park has the the best goal difference (+7) at home in League Two
  • Queen's Park have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Queen's Park have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Queen's Park is in the best form (6-0-0)

  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 7 6 1 0 13 1 3 3 0 0 8 1 4 3 1 0 5 0 12 19
2 Elgin City 7 5 0 2 15 6 4 3 0 1 9 3 3 2 0 1 6 3 9 15
3 Edinburgh City 7 4 0 3 15 7 4 2 0 2 6 4 3 2 0 1 9 3 8 12
4 Stirling Albion 7 3 3 1 12 6 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 2 0 10 4 6 12
5 Stenhousemuir 7 3 2 2 12 10 4 2 1 1 7 5 3 1 1 1 5 5 2 11
6 Stranraer 7 3 2 2 11 9 4 1 1 2 5 7 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 11
7 Annan Athletic 7 2 1 4 8 11 3 0 1 2 3 8 4 2 0 2 5 3 -3 7
8 Cowdenbeath 6 1 1 4 4 14 3 0 1 2 1 7 3 1 0 2 3 7 -10 4
9 Albion Rovers 6 1 0 5 6 15 3 0 0 3 1 6 3 1 0 2 5 9 -9 3
10 Brechin City 7 1 0 6 5 22 3 0 0 3 2 14 4 1 0 3 3 8 -17 3

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.