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Stranraer will face off against visiting opponents Dumbarton at Stair Park in this League Two tie on Saturday.
For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Stranraer v Dumbarton, scroll down - plus the latest betting odds.
๐ Form Guide
Stranraer
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Stranraer enter this fixture following a 0-0 League Two drawn match against Spartans.
Stranraer have struggled with their forward play in recent times. Their โgoals forโ figure equals just 3 versus opposition teams during their last 6 outings. In those games, Stranraer have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 8.
Ahead of this clash, Stranraer are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.
Dumbarton
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Dumbarton come into this match following a 1-0 League Two win with the eclipse of Clyde in their most recent fixture.
The only player to score from Dumbarton was James Hilton (73').
In the course of their six previous matches, Stephen Farrell's Dumbarton have found the net a total of 13 times, yielding them a goals scored per game average of 2.17.
Coming into this contest, Dumbarton are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.
๐ฅ Head to head
Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 05/11/2022 tells us that Stranraer have won 1 of them and Dumbarton 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.
An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them from The Blues and 10 netted by The Sons. Thatโs an average goals per game figure of 3.
The previous league match featuring these sides was League Two match day 18 on 05/03/2024 when it finished Stranraer 5-0 Dumbarton.
The match was refereed by George Calder.
๐ฐ Team News: Stranraer
The Stranraer manager Scott Agnew has no fitness worries at all ahead of this match thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from.
๐๏ธ Team News: Dumbarton
Out of a mainly healthy group, there is just the lone fitness problem for the Dumbarton gaffer Stephen Farrell to be concerned with. Brett Long (Broken ankle) wonโt be playing here.
๐ญ Prediction
Weโre of the opinion that Dumbarton and Stranraer may both find scoring difficult here.
Letโs see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level and two clean sheets. Weโre therefore seeing a hard-fought 0-0 draw at the end of the 90 minutes.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura, 13:07 20/04/2024
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Stranraer
Formed: 1870
Stadium: Stair Park (4,178)
Captain: Grant Gallagher
Chairman: Iain Dougan
Manager: Scott Agnew
Competitions: League Two position 9
โญ Star Man: Thomas Orr
Regularly taking to the field in the Striker position, Thomas Orr was born in Scotland. After having made a senior debut playing for Greenock Morton in the 2014 - 2015 season, the accomplished Forward has bagged 5 league goals in the League Two 2023 - 2024 campaign to date from a total of 26 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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33 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 66 | DDDDD |
2 |
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33 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 55 | DDWDW |
3 |
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33 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 55 | WWDWW |
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33 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 51 | LDWDD |
5 |
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33 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 44 | DWWDL |
6 |
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33 | 10 | 8 | 15 | -21 | 38 | WDLDD |
7 |
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33 | 7 | 15 | 11 | -6 | 36 | DDLLL |
8 |
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33 | 8 | 11 | 14 | -4 | 35 | LLDDW |
9 |
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33 | 8 | 8 | 17 | -15 | 32 | LLDLD |
10 |
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33 | 7 | 10 | 16 | -16 | 31 | WDLWL |
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Clyde |
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Bonnyrigg Rose |
East Fife |
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Elgin City |
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Clyde |
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Stenhousemuir |
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Bonnyrigg Rose |
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Forfar Athletic |
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Clyde |
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Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 1.2 |
Time first goal scored | 41 |
Time first goal conceded | 59 |
Yellow cards | 1.8 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.1 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 1.7 |
Goals conceded | 1.6 |
Time first goal scored | 24 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 2.3 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.7 |
Biggest victory | 6-2 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Deryn Lang | 5 |
Thomas Orr | 5 |
James Dolan | 4 |
Matty Grant | 4 |
Ben Armour | 3 |
Tony Wallace | 11 |
Michael Ruth | 8 |
James Hilton | 5 |
Finlay Gray | 4 |
Ryan Wallace | 4 |
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