📊 Form Guide

Alloa Athletic

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Alloa Athletic will be hoping to bounce back here following a 1-0 League One loss in their previous game against Inverness C.T.

Charlie Gilmour (70') was the scorer for Inverness C.T.

An interesting trait of more recent Alloa Athletic games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

Taking their previous 6 matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have lost. Let’s see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Going into this encounter, Alloa Athletic have not emerged victorious against Dumbarton in their previous 2 league games.

Dumbarton

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Dumbarton head into the meeting following on from a 2-1 League One win with the downing of Queen Of The South in their previous outing.

For Dumbarton, the scorers were Michael Ruth (73') and Tony Wallace (95'). Kyle Doherty (83') was the scorer for Queen Of The South.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games featuring Dumbarton, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The average number of goals per match during that time is 3.33, with the average number of goals for Dumbarton being 1.5.

Heading into this contest, Dumbarton have not lost to Alloa Athletic when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. A solid away record against them.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 13/05/2018, both clubs have shared the honours with Alloa Athletic winning 2 of those games, Dumbarton 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

A combined total of 21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 11 from The Wasps and 10 created by The Sons. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The previous league meeting between these sides was League One match day 2 on 10/08/2024 when the final score was Dumbarton 3-3 Alloa Athletic.

The referee was Ross Hardie.

🗞️ Team News: Alloa Athletic

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Alloa Athletic gaffer Andy Graham to contend with from a near full-strength squad. 3   (Alloa Athletic) is out of contention.

🗞️ Team News: Dumbarton

Out of a mainly healthy group, there is only the sole fitness issue for the Dumbarton manager Stephen Farrell to contend with. 10   (Dumbarton ) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

In our view, Dumbarton will have their work cut out to register a score against this Alloa Athletic team who we reckon will gain the upper hand.

That’s why we have predicted a very even contest with a 1-0 winning score for Alloa Athletic when the referee blows for full-time.

Little in this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 19:08 03/12/2024