Edinburgh City vs Annan Athletic Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Edinburgh City

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Edinburgh City, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-0 League One triumph vs Montrose.

The only name on the scoresheet from Edinburgh City was Findlay Marshall (62').

Matches with Edinburgh City have proved to be entertaining encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six clashes alone, a grand total of 21 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 4 of them coming from Edinburgh City.

Annan Athletic

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Annan Athletic head into the match after a 4-2 League One win as they beat Cove Rangers in their previous game.

For Annan Athletic, the goals were scored by Tommy Goss (23'), Matty Douglas (28'), Benjamin Luissint (67') and Josh Walker (80'). Kyle Connell (32') and Josh Kerr (45') scored for Cove Rangers.

Proving their partiality to high-scoring encounters, goals have been celebrated 22 times in the prior six matches in which Annan Athletic have taken to the pitch, yielding an average of 3.67 goals each meeting. Opposition teams have hit 10 of these goals. Such a trend might not be carried forward into this match, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Annan Athletic:

• have left without a victory over Edinburgh City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 away league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 22/04/2022, there has been little between the sides with Edinburgh City winning 3 of those games, Annan Athletic 3 and 0 being draws in regulation time.

In all, 21 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them for The Citizens and 11 being from Galabankies. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was League One match day 22 on 27/01/2024 when it finished Annan Athletic 3-0 Edinburgh City.

The match was refereed by Stewart Luke.

📋 Team News: Edinburgh City

The Edinburgh City manager Michael McIndoe has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Annan Athletic

With a fully injury-free group ready to go, the Annan Athletic manager Peter Murphy does not have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash.

⚡ Prediction

In this match, Edinburgh City have the capability to breach the defence of this Annan Athletic side, although one goal might not be enough to avoid a loss.

We can see a very close game with a 1-2 winning margin for Annan Athletic at the end of this one. It should be a decent one.

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Peter Guest, 00:01 20/04/2024