Ayr United vs Arbroath Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Ayr United

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Ayr United will be looking for another win after the 2-0 Championship success against Raith Rovers.

For Ayr United, the scorers were Tomi Adeloye (22') and Mark McKenzie (76').

It has not been often in recent games that Ayr United have shown defensive steel. In fact, Ayr United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 13 goals along the way. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, however.

Looking at their past form shows that Ayr United:

• are unbeaten in the league by Arbroath in their last 2 matches.
• have not emerged victorious against Arbroath in their last 6 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 2 home league matches.

Arbroath

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In their last game, Arbroath drew 0-0 in the Championship tie with Inverness C.T.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Arbroath has become fairly consistent of late. A glance at their last six outings shows that this has occurred 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal total of 1 while Arbroath have scored 8.

Their previous form shows that Arbroath:

• haven't been defeated by Ayr United in games played away from home for the previous 5 league games. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 10/12/2019 shows that Ayr United have won 0 of them & Arbroath 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them from The Honest Men and 11 created by The Red Lichties. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

📰 Team News: Ayr United

The Ayr United boss Davie White has zero fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game with a completely healthy group to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Arbroath

Thanks to a fully healthy group available to select from, the Arbroath boss Dick Campbell does not have any fitness worries at all before this match.

💡 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ayr United might need a bit of good fortune to be putting a goal past this Arbroath side who we think will be able to grind out a win.

That’s why our selection here is for a very even contest with a 0-1 advantage for Arbroath at the end of this game.

Should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:20 04/01/2022