Annan Athletic take on East Fife in Friday’s forthcoming League One Play-offs meeting.
Our tips, poll and stats for Annan Athletic v East Fife can all be found here - along with the latest match odds.
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Form Guide
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Annan Athletic
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Annan Athletic will be wanting a better result here after a 3-2 League One Play-offs loss in their previous game against East Fife.
The only player to score from Annan Athletic was Aidan Smith (49'). Alan Trouten (5'), Andy Munro (33', 80') and Michael McKenna (43' Own goal) scored for East Fife.
Annan Athletic have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, Annan Athletic have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches. We will have to find out if that trend will be continued on in this game.
East Fife
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A series of reliable displays by the East Fife defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings in total. During the same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 10.
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Head to head
A look at their prior head to head clashes going back to 12/03/2016 shows that Annan Athletic have won 3 of these games & East Fife 2, with the tally of drawn results being 1.
There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.
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Team News: East Fife
In an otherwise full-strength group, there is just the sole fitness worry for the East Fife manager Dick Campbell to be concerned with. 2 (East Fife) won’t be playing here.
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Prediction
It’s looking like East Fife and Annan Athletic could both end up scoring in a what should be a good tussle with little between the two teams.
A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely. That is why we are leaning toward a very even match with a 1-1 score draw at the end of this one.
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⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?
Checking out the betting prices for the game in the win-draw-win market, a victory for Annan Athletic is best priced at 2.7, a bet on the game finishing all-square is 3.6 & taking a punt on victory for East Fife gets you 2.25. Those are the best returns available at the current time.
Renata Leite,
09:00 15/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
⚽️ Team Focus:
Annan Athletic
Formed: 1942
Stadium: Galabank (2,504)
Captain: Tommy Muir
Chairman: Russell Brown
Manager: Willie Gibson
Competitions: League One position 9, League One Play-offs (Finals)
🔑 Key Player: Tommy Muir
Generally used in the Striker position, Tommy Muir was born in Scotland. After having played his first senior match for Annan Athletic in the 2022 - 2023 season, the skilful Forward has struck 11 league goals in the League One 2024 - 2025 season so far from a total of 32 appearances.