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Cove Rangers will be taking on visiting side Alloa Athletic at Balmoral Stadium in the League One match on Saturday.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Cove Rangers v Alloa Athletic including the latest game odds.
📏 Form Guide
Cove Rangers
LWLWLL
Cove Rangers will be wanting a better result here following the 4-2 League One losing effort in their last game against Annan Athletic.
For Cove Rangers, the goals were scored by Kyle Connell (32') and Josh Kerr (45'). Tommy Goss (23'), Matty Douglas (28'), Benjamin Luissint (67') and Josh Walker (80') scored for Annan Athletic.
Cove Rangers have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, but they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, Cove Rangers have been punished defensively in 5 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 6 of those games.
Ahead of this meeting, Cove Rangers haven't beaten Alloa Athletic in their last 3 matches in the league.
Alloa Athletic
WLLDWD ⚖
In their previous game, Alloa Athletic drew 0-0 in the League One match with Montrose.
Indicating their bias toward fruitful matches, we’ve seen goals 20 times in the prior six games in which Alloa Athletic have taken to the field, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposing teams have managed 8 of those goals. That kind of pattern might not be sustained into this next game, though.
🤜🤛 Head to head
A review of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 18/12/2021 shows that Cove Rangers have won 2 of these and Alloa Athletic 3, with the tally of draws being 1.
A combined sum of 19 goals were produced between them in these games, with 10 of them from The Wee Rangers and 9 coming from The Wasps. The average goals per game has been 3.17.
The last league match featuring these clubs was League One match day 25 on 17/02/2024 which ended up with the score at Alloa Athletic 4-1 Cove Rangers.
The referee was Graham Grainger.
📋 Team News: Cove Rangers
The Cove Rangers manager Paul Hartley will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from.
📰 Team News: Alloa Athletic
Due to a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Alloa Athletic manager Andy Graham does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash.
🔮 Prediction
We feel that Alloa Athletic and Cove Rangers may well both score at least one goal each although picking a clear a winner isn’t easy.
A draw looks like a realistic possibility but, again, we don’t expect it to end goalless. That is why we are leaning toward a very competitive game with a score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura, 16:01 20/04/2024
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⚽️ Team Focus:
Cove Rangers
Formed: 1922
Stadium: Balmoral Stadium (3,023)
Captain: Mitch Megginson
Chairman: Keith Moorhouse
Manager: Paul Hartley
Competitions: League One position 5
🔑 Key Player: Rumarn Burrell
Mostly used in the Striker position, Rumarn Burrell was born in Birmingham, England. After making a first senior appearance for Falkirk in the 2022 - 2023 season, the dangerous Forward has scored 20 league goals in this League One 2023 - 2024 season so far in 32 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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33 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 68 | 87 | WWWWW |
2 |
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33 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 40 | 65 | WWDWL |
3 |
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33 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 52 | LLDWD |
4 |
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33 | 13 | 8 | 12 | -1 | 47 | DLLDL |
5 |
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33 | 13 | 7 | 13 | -4 | 46 | WLWLL |
6 |
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33 | 12 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 43 | WLWWW |
7 |
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33 | 10 | 7 | 16 | -8 | 37 | LWDLW |
8 |
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33 | 8 | 10 | 15 | -14 | 34 | DWDLW |
9 |
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33 | 9 | 7 | 17 | -21 | 34 | LWLLL |
10 |
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33 | 3 | 5 | 25 | -55 | 8 | LLLLW |
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Annan Athletic |
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Falkirk |
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Stirling Albion |
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Hamilton Academical |
Kelty Hearts |
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Montrose |
Stirling Albion |
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Annan Athletic |
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Queen Of The South |
Kelty Hearts |
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Stirling Albion |
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Hamilton Academical |
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Montrose |
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Falkirk |
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Annan Athletic |
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Queen Of The South |
Stirling Albion |
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Kelty Hearts |
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Edinburgh City |
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Montrose |
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Hamilton Academical |
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Goals scored | 1.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.8 |
Time first goal scored | 40 |
Time first goal conceded | 33 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.4 |
Biggest victory | 7-2 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Goals scored | 2 |
Goals conceded | 1.9 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 34 |
Yellow cards | 2.1 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.3 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Rumarn Burrell | 21 |
Mitch Megginson | 9 |
Connor Scully | 5 |
Kyle Connell | 4 |
Josh Kerr | 4 |
Bobby Wales | 10 |
Taylor Steven | 9 |
Scott Taggart | 6 |
Ally Roy | 5 |
Conor Sammon | 5 |
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Edinburgh City |
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Hamilton Academical |
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