National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Alloa Athletic or Celtic that keep their silverware dream alive.
It should be mentioned that Celtic play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Celtic on artifical turf are 2 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats from three games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 8-1. You can compare this with overall results below.
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.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Alloa Athletic was eliminated in the 2nd round last season in the Scottish Cup.Alloa Athletic have played 10 League One games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-3-4 (wins-draws-losses).
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Alloa Athletic, who played 1-1 against Queen's Park. That match was also played at this venue (Indodrill Stadium).
Preceding that game was the away draw at Montrose that finished 1-1.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Alloa Athletic had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Alloa Athletic lost one similar game by at least two goals.
A decent goal production from Alloa Athletic in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. Alloa have conceded 16 from these games.
Celtic form and stats
They also participated in Scottish Cup last season. This ended in the 4th round.Impressive finishing from Juranović and Maeda secured the home win 2-0 against Hibernian in their previous game. Juranović was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.23. The defender Juranović scored one goal, hit three key passes and won 7 of 9 duels.
Preceding that game was the away Premiership victory against St. Johnstone with the score of 3-1.As mentioned earlier, Celtic will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in six wins (three by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and one surprising defeat.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Premiership trip to Hearts.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 8 goals |   S. Boyd 7 goals |
Alloa Athletic missing players
Celtic missing players
| Alloa Athletic | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 37 | 22 | Scored | S | 29 | 47 | ||
| 38 | 19 | Conceded | C | 17 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 68% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 16% | ||
| 2.6 | 3.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8.9 | 8.6 | ||
| 6.8 | 7.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.3 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18.5 | 18.6 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 38% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 33% | ||
| 10.9 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 8.7 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.3 | ||
| 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 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 44 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 25 | 49 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 41 |
| 3 | Montrose | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 36 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 18 | 39 |
| 4 | Queen's Park | 19 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 33 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 28 |
| 5 | Falkirk | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 16 | -4 | 25 |
| 6 | Clyde | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -11 | 24 |
| 7 | Peterhead | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 23 | -4 | 23 |
| 8 | Alloa Athletic | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 35 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -7 | 22 |
| 9 | Dumbarton | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 44 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 24 | -15 | 21 |
| 10 | East Fife | 21 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 48 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 36 | -27 | 13 |
