Annan Athletic vs East Fife Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Annan Athletic

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Annan Athletic will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 0-1 League Two losing effort in their last game against East Fife.

Scott Shepherd (12') was the scorer for East Fife.

Annan Athletic have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they’ve also found ways to score goals themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Annan Athletic have been punished defensively in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

East Fife

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The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring East Fife has been apparent of late. Looking at their last six outings shows that this has happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal total of 6 and East Fife have scored 8. That pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this game, of course.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings stretching back to 28/02/2015, neither club has come out on top overall with Annan Athletic winning 3 of those games, East Fife 3 and 0 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 10 of them from Galabankies and 11 belonging to The Fife. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The previous league contest between these sides was League Two match day 29 on 12/03/2016 when it ended East Fife 4-2 Annan Athletic.

The referee was Gavin Ross.

🗞️ Team News: Annan Athletic

The Annan Athletic boss Peter Murphy will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a completely healthy squad to pick from.

In all likelihood, Galabankies may well make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Ben Amos, Tendayi Darikwa, Jack Whatmough, Curtis Tilt, James McClean, Max Power, Graeme Shinnie, Callum Lang, Will Keane, Thelo Aasgaard and Josh Magennis.

🗞️ Team News: East Fife

Thanks to a fully healthy squad to choose from, the East Fife boss Stevie Crawford has no fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.

We are inclined to think that The Fife seem likely to play in a 3-4-2-1 lineup using Joe Lumley, Thomas Holmes, Sam Hutchinson, Tom McIntyre, Andy Yiadom, Abdul Rahman Baba, Jeff Hendrick, Tyrese Fornah, Thomas Ince, Junior Hoilett and Lucas Joao.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that East Fife will have a tough ask to get anything against this Annan Athletic side who we reckon should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a hard-fought 1-0 win for Annan Athletic at full-time.

Hoping for a good game.

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Lucas Pereira, 01:41 13/09/2022