📊 Form Guide

Annan Athletic

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Annan Athletic will be hoping for a better result after the 1-3 League One loss in their previous game against Hamilton Academical.

For Annan Athletic, the scorers were Tommy Muir (38' Own goal) and Aidan Smith (88'). Ben Williamson (61') and Euan Henderson (85') scored for Hamilton Academical.

Annan Athletic have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have managed to rack up 9 during that period and have conceded a total of 9. That pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward here, however.

Going into this encounter, Annan Athletic have not won against Cove Rangers in their last 4 league matches.

Cove Rangers

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Falkirk in League One action, Cove Rangers and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

The only player to score from Cove Rangers was Josh Kerr (34'). Coll Donaldson (13'), Callumn Morrison (25'), Ross MacIver (50'), Dylan Tait (62') and Alfredo Agyeman (92') scored for Falkirk.

Indicating their appetite for high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 23 times in the previous six matches in which Cove Rangers have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.83 goals for each clash. Their opponents have got 15 of these goals.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 28/09/2019 shows that Annan Athletic have won 1 of these games and Cove Rangers 5, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 24 in all at an average of 4 goals per match.

The last league encounter between the two was League One match day 26 on 24/02/2024 which ended up with the score at Cove Rangers 2-1 Annan Athletic.

The match was refereed by Scott Lambie.

📋 Team News: Annan Athletic

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

In all likelihood, Galabankies could use a 4-2-3-1 system, utilising John Ruddy, Ethan Laird, Dion Sanderson, Emanuel Aiwu, Emmanuel Longelo, Krystian Bielik, Seung-ho Paik, Koji Miyoshi, Alex Pritchard, Keshi Anderson and Jay Stansfield.

🗞️ Team News: Cove Rangers

Due to a fully healthy group to choose from, the Cove Rangers manager Paul Hartley has no fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

We believe The Wee Rangers might elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation using Brad Collins, Joel Latibeaudiere, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jake Bidwell, Josh Eccles, Ben Sheaf, Haji Wright, Callum O'Hare, Kasey Palmer and Ellis Simms.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Annan Athletic will surely be able to put a goal past this Cove Rangers side, although just one goal may not be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for both teams to score in a 1-2 winning margin for Cove Rangers at the end of the match. Let’s see what happens here.

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Peter Guest, 13:02 13/04/2024