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Alloa Athletic visit New Central Park on Saturday for the League One clash with home team Kelty Hearts.
For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Kelty Hearts v Alloa Athletic, scroll down including the latest game odds.
Kelty Hearts head into this match coming off the back of a 2-2 League One stalemate against Cove Rangers.
For Kelty Hearts, goals were scored by Craig Johnston (61') and Ross Cunningham (68'). Adam Emslie (30') and Mitch Megginson (37') scored for Cove Rangers.
Matches with Kelty Hearts have often been exciting ones of late with plenty of scoring anticipated. Over their past half dozen games, a total of 21 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 7 of them belonging to Kelty Hearts.
Taking a look at their past results, Kelty Hearts:
Alloa Athletic will come into the game following a 2-1 League One win with the defeat of Montrose in their most recent fixture.
For Alloa Athletic, goals were scored by Conor Sammon (71') and Luke Rankin (84'). Owen Stirton (26') scored for Montrose.
The stats don’t lie, and Alloa Athletic have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in all. At the back, Alloa Athletic just haven’t been too solid at all. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.
Coming into this contest, Alloa Athletic haven't been defeated in their previous 3 away league matches.
An examination of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 21/10/2023 shows us that Kelty Hearts have won 1 of them and Alloa Athletic 5, with the number of draws being 0.
A sum of 15 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 3 from The Jambos and 12 belonging to The Wasps. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.
The previous league match between these clubs was League One match day 25 on 15/02/2025 which ended up with the score at Alloa Athletic 2-0 Kelty Hearts.
The match was refereed by Jordan Curran.
We are of the inclination to think that Alloa Athletic and Kelty Hearts may well both score, with little between these two teams.
Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score when all is said and done.
Checking on the latest odds for this match on the 90 minute result market, backing Kelty Hearts is best priced at 2.8, a bet on a draw is 3.25 and staking on the winner to be Alloa Athletic can be had at 2.25. Those are the most competitive prices on offer right now.
Renata Leite, 14:03 29/04/2025
⚽️ Team Focus:
Kelty Hearts
Formed: 1975
Stadium: New Central Park (2,181)
Captain: Thomas O'Ware
Chairman: George McTrusty
Manager: Thomas O'Ware
Competitions: League One position 6
⭐ Key Man: Ross Cunningham
Customarily taking up the Left Wing position, Ross Cunningham was born in Scotland. After having made a senior debut playing for Hamilton Academical in the 2015 - 2016 season, the accomplished Forward has accumulated 13 league goals in this League One 2024 - 2025 campaign to date coming from a total of 31 appearances.
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Kelty Hearts |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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35 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 63 | WWWLL |
| 2 |
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35 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 54 | LLWDD |
| 3 |
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35 | 16 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 54 | WWWWW |
| 4 |
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35 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 51 | LWWDW |
| 5 |
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35 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 50 | LLLDL |
| 6 |
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35 | 10 | 11 | 14 | -7 | 41 | LLWLD |
| 7 |
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35 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 40 | LWLDW |
| 8 |
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35 | 9 | 13 | 13 | -7 | 40 | WLLDL |
| 9 |
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35 | 10 | 6 | 19 | -25 | 36 | WLLWL |
| 10 |
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35 | 8 | 11 | 16 | -14 | 20 | WWLDW |
| Cove Rangers |
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Kelty Hearts |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Queen Of The South |
| Inverness C.T. |
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Kelty Hearts |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Dumbarton |
| Annan Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Arbroath |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Montrose |
| Cove Rangers |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Annan Athletic |
| Stenhousemuir |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Alloa Athletic |
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Dumbarton |
| Inverness C.T. |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Queen Of The South |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Dumbarton |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Arbroath |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Cove Rangers |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Montrose |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Inverness C.T. |
| Cove Rangers |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Stenhousemuir |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Inverness C.T. |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Queen Of The South |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Annan Athletic |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Montrose |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Goals scored | 0.9 |
| Goals conceded | 1.6 |
| Time first goal scored | 38 |
| Time first goal conceded | 39 |
| Yellow cards | 1.8 |
| Red cards | 0.1 |
| Subs used | 3 |
| Biggest victory | 3-0 |
| Biggest defeat | 6-0 |
| Goals scored | 1.6 |
| Goals conceded | 1.3 |
| Time first goal scored | 42 |
| Time first goal conceded | 28 |
| Yellow cards | 2.2 |
| Red cards | 0 |
| Subs used | 3.1 |
| Biggest victory | 4-1 |
| Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
| Ross Cunningham | 13 |
| Scott Williamson | 7 |
| Jacob MacIntyre | 3 |
| Scott Allan | 2 |
| Craig Johnston | 2 |
| Luke Donnelly | 9 |
| Luke Rankin | 9 |
| Conor Sammon | 7 |
| Stefan Scougall | 6 |
| Scott Taggart | 4 |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Alloa Athletic |
| Kelty Hearts |
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Alloa Athletic |
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