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Kelty Hearts will do battle with away side Edinburgh City at New Central Park in the League One clash on Saturday.
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📊 Form Guide
Kelty Hearts
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Kelty Hearts will be hoping for a better result after the 3-2 League One defeat last time out to Annan Athletic.
For Kelty Hearts, the goalscorers were Michael Tidser (40') and Craig Johnston (48'). Aidan Smith (26'), Lewis Hunter (35') and Benjamin Luissint (38') scored for Annan Athletic.
It has been seldom in recent times that Kelty Hearts haven’t conceded. In fact, Kelty Hearts have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 14 goals in the process.
Coming into this fixture, Kelty Hearts are unbeaten in the league by Edinburgh City in their last 4 games.
Edinburgh City
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Since being beaten in their last game against Falkirk in League One action, Edinburgh City will be aiming to make amends here.
The only scorer from Edinburgh City was Momodou Sambou (90'). Callumn Morrison (31', 45', 61', 81') scored for Falkirk.
The strike force from Edinburgh City have been starved of goals over their previous six games, recording the disappointing return of just 4. In those fixtures, The Citizens have also seen the collective goal aggregate of their opponents equal 17. Such a pattern might not be continued into this next game, of course.
👥 Head to head
Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 04/03/2023 tells us that Kelty Hearts have won 4 of these and Edinburgh City 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
There were also goals galore in those games, with 28 in all which averages out at 4.67 goals per meeting.
The last league game featuring these sides was League One match day 15 on 13/02/2024 when the final score was Kelty Hearts 3-2 Edinburgh City.
The referee was Steven Kirkland.
ℹ️ Team News: Kelty Hearts
The Kelty Hearts boss Michael Tidser will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game with a completely injury-free squad available for selection.
📋 Team News: Edinburgh City
Due to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from, the Edinburgh City manager Michael McIndoe doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report before this match.
🧠 Prediction
We’re thinking that Kelty Hearts look likely to fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding when they play Edinburgh City, who will not find it easy getting on the scoresheet.
We can therefore see a decent 2-0 winning score for Kelty Hearts when the full-time whistle blows.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 14:05 30/03/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Kelty Hearts
Formed: 1975
Stadium: New Central Park (2,181)
Captain: Reece Lyon
Chairman: Thomas Rowley
Manager: Michael Tidser
Competitions: League One position 6
🔑 Star Man: Ross Cunningham
Mostly taking up the Left Wing position, Ross Cunningham was born in Scotland. Having made his senior debut playing for Hamilton Academical in the 2015 - 2016 season, the goalscoring Forward has scored 4 league goals in the League One 2023 - 2024 campaign so far in 22 appearances.
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30 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 56 | 78 | DWWWW |
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30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 40 | 61 | DWWWW |
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30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 47 | LWWLL |
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30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 46 | WWWDL |
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30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 43 | WLLWL |
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30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | -14 | 34 | LLLWL |
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30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | -14 | 34 | DDLLW |
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30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | -9 | 33 | LDLLW |
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30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | -14 | 30 | LDWDW |
10 |
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30 | 2 | 5 | 23 | -52 | 5 | LLLLL |
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Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 51 |
Time first goal conceded | 40 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.7 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 2.9 |
Time first goal scored | 41 |
Time first goal conceded | 33 |
Yellow cards | 2.6 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4 |
Biggest victory | null |
Biggest defeat | 7-2 |
Alfie Bavidge | 9 |
Craig Johnston | 7 |
Reece Lyon | 5 |
Lewis Moore | 5 |
Ross Cunningham | 4 |
Robbie Mahon | 7 |
Olly McDonald | 3 |
Innes Murray | 3 |
Ouzy See | 3 |
Danny Handling | 3 |
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