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The League One fixture at The Indodrill Stadium on Saturday will see home team Alloa Athletic welcome Montrose.
View all of the Alloa Athletic v Montrose predictions, poll and stats below - along with the latest match odds.
📏 Form Guide
Alloa Athletic
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Alloa Athletic fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 1-5 League One victory over Stirling Albion.
For Alloa Athletic, the goalscorers were Conor Sammon (5'), Bobby Wales (23'), Ethan Sutherland (45'), Kurtis Roberts (70') and Taylor Steven (73'). Greig Spence (65') was the scorer for Stirling Albion.
Fixtures featuring Alloa Athletic have usually been entertaining ones lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 games, a total of 23 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 15 of these coming from Alloa Athletic. That trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, however.
Leading up to this clash, Alloa Athletic:
- have not won against Montrose in their last 3 league games.
- have not won at home in their last 2 league games.
Montrose
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Since tasting defeat last time out to Falkirk in League One competition, Montrose and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.
The only name on the scoresheet from Montrose was Kane Hester (31'). Ross MacIver (4', 49'), Aidan Nesbitt (21', 47'), Ethan Ross (33'), Alfredo Agyeman (66') and Ryan Shanley (76') scored for Falkirk.
Montrose have been a threat going forward of late, having scored 13 times in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Montrose have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 6 of those same matches.
Going into this one, Montrose have not registered a win against Alloa Athletic in games played away from home for the previous 11 matches in the league. Not an away record to be proud of.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Checking out their prior head to head duels stretching back to 03/12/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with Alloa Athletic winning 2 of those games, Montrose 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.
A combined sum of 19 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from The Wasps and 8 being from The Gable Endies. The average goals per game has been 3.17.
The previous league encounter between these sides was League One match day 27 on 02/03/2024 and the score finished Montrose 4-3 Alloa Athletic.
The match was refereed by Duncan Williams.
📰 Team News: Alloa Athletic
The Alloa Athletic boss Andy Graham has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match thanks to a fully injury-free squad available for selection.
📋 Team News: Montrose
Out of a mainly full-strength group of players, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Montrose manager Stewart Petrie to contend with. Alex Balfour (Ankle injury) won’t be in action.
🧠 Prediction
We’ve got the feeling that Montrose will likely create enough chances to score against this Alloa Athletic outfit, however that may not be as many as they will have scored against them.
Our tip is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Alloa Athletic when all is said and done. Definitely a tough call.
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Andre Moura, 13:02 13/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Alloa Athletic
Formed: 1878
Stadium: The Indodrill Stadium (3,100)
Captain: Scott Taggart
Chairman: Andrew Allan
Manager: Andy Graham
Competitions: League One position 3
🔑 Star Player: Taylor Steven
Normally playing in the Striker position, Taylor Steven was born in Scotland. Having played his first senior match for East Fife in the 2022 - 2023 season, the skilful Forward has accumulated 9 league goals in the League One 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 26 appearances.
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32 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 66 | 84 | WWWWW |
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32 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 42 | 65 | WWWDW |
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32 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 51 | WLLDW |
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31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 46 | WWDLL |
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32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | -2 | 46 | LWLWL |
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32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | -11 | 40 | LWLWW |
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32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -10 | 34 | LLWDL |
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32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -20 | 34 | LLWLL |
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32 | 7 | 10 | 15 | -16 | 31 | WDWDL |
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31 | 2 | 5 | 24 | -54 | 5 | LLLLL |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.3 |
Time first goal scored | 42 |
Time first goal conceded | 48 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4 |
Biggest victory | 4-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Goals scored | 1.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 33 |
Time first goal conceded | 43 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.5 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Bobby Wales | 12 |
Taylor Steven | 9 |
Scott Taggart | 6 |
Ally Roy | 5 |
Conor Sammon | 5 |
Kane Hester | 10 |
Graham Webster | 9 |
Blair Lyons | 8 |
Craig Brown | 5 |
Aidan Quinn | 3 |
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