📏 Form Guide

Elgin City

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Elgin City enter this match after a 1-1 League Two draw vs Stenhousemuir.

The only name on the scoresheet from Elgin City was Robert Jones (84'). Ross Taylor (15') was the scorer for Stenhousemuir.

It’s not been often in recent games that Elgin City have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Elgin City have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 7 goals during that time.

Looking at their past form shows that Elgin City:

• have not lost a league tie with Peterhead in their previous 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 6 home league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 matches in the league.

Peterhead

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Peterhead will go into the clash following a 2-1 League Two win vs Forfar Athletic in their previous game.

For Peterhead, the goalscorers were Hamish Ritchie (49') and Jack Brown (80'). Daniel Scally (71') scored for Forfar Athletic.

Jordon Brown's Peterhead have found the back of the net a total of 11 times in the course of their latest six matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes adds up to 5.

Their previous form shows that Peterhead:

• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 9 league games. A poor run.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 02/03/2019 shows that Elgin City have won 2 of them and Peterhead 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A combined total of 19 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them for The Black and Whites and 11 belonging to The Blue Toon . The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league match between these clubs was League Two match day 26 on 24/02/2024 when it finished Peterhead 1-1 Elgin City.

The referee was Alex Shepherd.

ℹ️ Team News: Elgin City

The Elgin City boss Allan Hale has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all ahead of this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Peterhead

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Peterhead boss Jordon Brown has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Peterhead and Elgin City could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-1 score draw at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 13:07 20/04/2024