Stirling Albion will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 23 points behind Cove Rangers.
Stirling Albion and Cove Rangers 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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Cove Rangers's home stadium. The visitors last 26 games on grass have ended in 13 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses.
Stirling Albion form and stats
Stirling Albion have collected 11 points from their League Two home games so far after 3-2-4. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Stirling Albion, their manager K. Rutkiewicz and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Cameron Binnie not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.
Stirling Albion are returning here after visiting Albion Rovers in a League Two game and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. A strong away win before that one, visiting Stenhousemuir and winning 2-0.
Stirling Albion decided the match against Albion Rovers in the first half, and held firmly on to their lead (3-0) without using too much effort. The team showed great control while saving some energy. D. Duffy was absolutely essential when Stirling Albion beat Albion Rovers 3-0, scoring 3 goals.
Stirling Albion are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 9 games. Stirling Albion's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cove Rangers form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (52) in League Two, are W6-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the League Two. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Cove Rangers hope to make it five in this match. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Cove Rangers are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Cove Rangers play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-1 victory visiting Brechin City (placed 10th). Before that, Cove Rangers secured a home win against Elgin City with the score 2-0.
As mentioned above, Cove Rangers was the only team on the pitch versus Brechin City in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 27 goals in 10 league games away this season. The Cove Rangers manager P. Hartley has some worries about the defense as 21 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Cove Rangers - Stirling Albion 1-0 entered in the official records. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 0 Stirling Albion victories, 0 draws and 2 Cove Rangers wins. 1 of these game ended with three goals or more, 1 match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Megginson 14 goals |  J. Masson 8 goals |   D. Duffy 5 goals |
Stirling Albion missing players
Cove Rangers missing players
| Stirling Albion | Cove Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 20 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 27 | 52 |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 21 | 24 |
| 89% | 89% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 58% | 56% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 32% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 90% | 84% |
| 5% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 70% | 47% |
| 5% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 50% | 37% |
| 37% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 90% | 58% |
| 37% | 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 10% | 42% |
| 37% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 5.7 | 9 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 6.8 | 8 |
| 6 | 5.2 | 7 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 1.5 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 1.9 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 180 | 93 | 21 | Total Shots | T S | 26 | 143 | 301 |
| 71 | 38 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 60 | 126 |
| 28% | 26% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 45% | 39% |
- All of Cove Rangers's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cove Rangers has the most scored goals (27) away
- Cove Rangers has the most scored goals (52)
- Cove Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (25)
- Cove Rangers has the most scored goals in the second half (27)
- Cove Rangers has the the best goal difference (+28)
- Cove Rangers has the the best goal difference (+6) away
- Cove Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cove Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cove Rangers have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cove Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Stirling Albion.
- Cove Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stirling Albion has the fewest conceded goals (17)
- Stirling Albion has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4)
- Stirling Albion has the fewest matches over the total-line (5)
- Stirling Albion has the most matches under the total-line (13)
- Stirling Albion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cove Rangers | 19 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 52 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 28 | 46 |
| 2 | Edinburgh City | 19 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 44 |
| 3 | Cowdenbeath | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 32 |
| 4 | Annan Athletic | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 29 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -7 | 27 |
| 5 | Stirling Albion | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Elgin City | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 7 | Queen's Park | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -4 | 22 |
| 8 | Albion Rovers | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 36 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -10 | 19 |
| 9 | Stenhousemuir | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -17 | 16 |
| 10 | Brechin City | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 44 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 23 | -21 | 14 |