Forfar Athletic vs Dumbarton Prediction & Betting Tips

Dumbarton are the guests at Station Park on Saturday for the League One game with hosts Forfar Athletic.

Full predictions, stats & game poll for the Forfar Athletic v Dumbarton match are shown here - plus the latest betting odds.

📊 Form Guide

Forfar Athletic

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Forfar Athletic will be wanting a better result here following a 0-1 League Cup defeat last time out to Hibernian.

David Gray (87') was the scorer for Hibernian.

Forfar Athletic have really struggled up front in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 2 versus opponents over their last 6 matches. In those games, The Loons have also seen the number of goals against them come to 10.

Dumbarton

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Clyde in League Cup action, Dumbarton will be aiming to make amends here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Dumbarton was CJ Hamilton (40'). Barry Cuddihy (10'), David Goodwillie (22') and Ross Cunningham (45') scored for Clyde.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Dumbarton has become apparent of late. Looking at their last six games reveals that it has happened 5 times. In these clashes, their opponents have managed a goal aggregate of 6 and The Sons have scored 6. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern might continue on here in this game.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 17/11/2018 shows that Forfar Athletic have won 2 of these & Dumbarton 3, with the number of drawn games being 1.

A combined sum of 21 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them for The Loons and 11 created by The Sons. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

📰 Team News: Forfar Athletic

Forfar Athletic manager Stuart Malcolm has zero fitness worries at all before this game with a completely injury-free group to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Dumbarton

Due to a completely injury-free group ready to go, Dumbarton manager Jim Duffy has zero fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that Dumbarton and Forfar Athletic could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

It could well end in a draw. We’re therefore predicting a close game with a 1-1 draw at full-time.

Victor Martins, 19:30 13/10/2020