📏 Form Guide

Raith Rovers

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Raith Rovers will be wanting a better result here following a 2-0 Championship defeat last time out to Dundee United.

Tony Watt (7') and Louis Moult (75') scored for Dundee United.

An interesting feature of more recent Raith Rovers games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

Taking their previous 6 matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on BTTS would've lost. That pattern isn’t assured to be sustained here, though.

Their prior results show that Raith Rovers:

• have not been beaten in the league by Ayr United in their last 3 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 3 home league matches.

Ayr United

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Ayr United come into this encounter following on from a 2-1 Championship win versus Airdrie United in their last fixture.

For Ayr United, the goalscorers were Anton Dowds (47') and Sean McGinty (50'). Josh O'Connor (38') scored for Airdrie United.

Indicating their appetite for productive matches, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the prior 6 matches in which Ayr United have sent out their troops, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals per meeting. Their opponents have got 11 of these goals.

A look at their previous results shows us that Ayr United:

• have not registered a win against Raith Rovers when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• haven't been beaten by Raith Rovers in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 03/12/2022, neither club has come out on top overall with Raith Rovers winning 2 of those games, Ayr United 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A combined sum of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 8 for The Rovers and 9 netted by The Honest Men. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league game between these clubs was Championship match day 25 on 24/02/2024 when the final score was Ayr United 1-2 Raith Rovers.

The referee was Steven McLean.

🗞️ Team News: Raith Rovers

The Raith Rovers boss Ian Murray doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this game owing to a fully healthy group available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Ayr United

Due to a completely injury-free squad available to select from, the Ayr United boss Scott Brown does not have any fitness worries whatsoever before this clash.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that Raith Rovers will probably have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

Conversely, Ayr United are also probably going to find it difficult getting goals although we do think that they will probably end up being dangerous for periods.

Our selection here is for a comfortable 3-1 victory for Raith Rovers at full-time.

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

Lucas Pereira, 13:04 06/04/2024