Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Cove Rangers & Ayr United face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Scottish Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Cove's stadium, Balmoral Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Ayr United have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Ayr United when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses from eleven matches. They have scored {15 goals} in these games and conceded 14.
Cove Rangers and Ayr United 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.
Cove Rangers form and stats
Cove Rangers participated in Scottish Cup the last season, where they reached the 4th round.The overall Championship stats playing at home this season for Cove Rangers are 5-3-4 (wins-draws-losses).
The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Raith Rovers last time out and are looking for a win here.
Before that game, the home loss against Queen's Park with the scoreline 0-6.The Cove fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 18 goals in 12 league matches. 17 goals have been conceded.
Ayr United form and stats
Last season their Scottish Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.As the visiting team in Championship matches, Ayr United have produced an overall stat of 5-1-3 so far.
Ayr United delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Arbroath in their previous match.
Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Hamilton Academical in the Championship.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Ayr United are regular goalscorers on their travels. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Ayr have conceded 16 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Cove Rangers zero wins, one draw and Ayr United one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Akinyemi with 2 goals scored against Cove Rangers in these 2 games.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Akinyemi 15 goals |  C. Scully 7 goals | M. Megginson 6 goals |
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| Cove Rangers | Ayr United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 40 | 27 | Scored | S | 21 | 44 | ||
| 47 | 21 | Conceded | C | 19 | 32 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | ||
| 44% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 60% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 16% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 6 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9.1 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.9 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| 43% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 39% | ||
| 9.8 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.8 | 8 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.6 | ||
| 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 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 44 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 17 | 40 |
| 2 | Ayr United | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 36 |
| 3 | Dundee | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 35 |
| 4 | Partick Thistle | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 42 | 36 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 33 |
| 5 | Greenock Morton | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 30 |
| 6 | Inverness CT | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 2 | 30 |
| 7 | Raith Rovers | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 13 | -1 | 29 |
| 8 | Cove Rangers | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 30 | 42 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 25 | -12 | 22 |
| 9 | Arbroath | 22 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 18 | -16 | 18 |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 22 | -22 | 14 |
