Arbroath vs Greenock Morton Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Arbroath

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Arbroath will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 5-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Ayr United.

Kurt Willoughby (23'), Frankie Musonda (32'), Anton Dowds (41'), Ben Dempsey (68') and Logan Chalmers (90') scored for Ayr United.

At least three goals per match have been seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Arbroath have participated. Opposing sides scored 18 times in these games whereas Arbroath managed to get a total of 6.

Their prior results show that Arbroath:

• have not won against Greenock Morton in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Greenock Morton

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After tasting defeat last time out to Dundee United in Championship action, Greenock Morton and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only name on the scoresheet from Greenock Morton was Robbie Muirhead (62'). Ross Docherty (20'), Glenn Middleton (23'), Louis Moult (51') and Tony Watt (58') scored for Dundee United.

Looking at their form, and Greenock Morton have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals in all. In defence, Greenock Morton have not been doing too well. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Greenock Morton:

• are undefeated by Arbroath when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 03/12/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Arbroath winning 2 of those games, Greenock Morton 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 8 of them from The Red Lichties and 8 netted by The Ton. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The previous league game between the two was Championship match day 22 on 27/01/2024 when it finished Greenock Morton 3-0 Arbroath.

The match was refereed by Duncan Williams.

📋 Team News: Arbroath

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the lone fitness concern for the Arbroath gaffer Jim McIntyre to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed squad. Zak Delaney (unknown injury) misses out.

📋 Team News: Greenock Morton

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group of players, there is just a single fitness problem for the Greenock Morton boss Dougie Imrie to be concerned with. Jack Harkness (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Arbroath must be fancied to breach the defence of this Greenock Morton team, although just one goal possibly won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see both teams to score in a 1-2 advantage for Greenock Morton when the full-time whistle blows. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

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

Peter Guest, 03:06 19/04/2024