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Cove Rangers arrive at The Falkirk Stadium on Saturday for the League One fixture with home team Falkirk.
Our Falkirk v Cove Rangers predictions, statistics and match poll can be seen below - as well as the best betting odds.
📏 Form Guide
Falkirk
DWWWWW 🔥
Falkirk will be looking for a repeat result of the 1-7 League One victory versus Montrose.
For Falkirk, the goalscorers were Ross MacIver (4', 49'), Aidan Nesbitt (21', 47'), Ethan Ross (33'), Alfredo Agyeman (66') and Ryan Shanley (76'). Kane Hester (31') scored for Montrose.
Falkirk have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Falkirk have conceded in 5 of them while also scoring in 6 of those games. We will find out if that trend can be continued on into this next match.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Falkirk:
- have not lost a league tie with Cove Rangers in their last 3 matches.
- are unbeaten in their last 15 home league matches. So impressive.
Cove Rangers
WLLWLW
Cove Rangers will go into the game after a 4-2 League One win over Stirling Albion in their most recent game.
For Cove Rangers, goals were scored by Rumarn Burrell (22') and Mouhamed Niang (56'). Kieran Offord (17'), Jordan McGregor (35' Own goal, 92' Own goal) and Cammy Clark (58') scored for Stirling Albion.
Paul Hartley's Cove Rangers have found the back of the net a total of 9 times throughout their most recent six matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during the equivalent period equals 10.
Heading into this contest, Cove Rangers are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
👥 Head to head
A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 11/12/2021 shows us that Falkirk have won 2 of these and Cove Rangers 3, with the number of draws being 1.
A sum of 16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 7 for The Bairns and 9 created by The Wee Rangers. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.
The last league contest featuring these sides was League One match day 24 on 05/03/2024 and the score finished Cove Rangers 0-1 Falkirk.
The referee was Chris Fordyce.
ℹ️ Team News: Falkirk
The Falkirk manager John McGlynn will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game with a fully injury-free squad available to choose from.
ℹ️ Team News: Cove Rangers
With a completely healthy group ready to go, the Cove Rangers manager Paul Hartley has zero fitness worries to speak of before this clash.
💡 Prediction
In this match, Cove Rangers have it within them to breach the defence of this Falkirk team, however that may not quite be enough to prevent defeat.
We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Falkirk by the conclusion of the game.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 16:07 06/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Falkirk
Formed: 1876
Stadium: The Falkirk Stadium (7,937)
Captain: Stephen McGinn
Chairman: Jamie Swinney
Manager: John McGlynn
Competitions: League One position 1
🔑 Star Man: Callumn Morrison
Normally taking to the field in the Right Wing position, Callumn Morrison was born in Alva, Scotland. Having played his first senior match for Hearts in the 2015 - 2016 season, the skilful Forward has managed 21 league goals in this League One 2023 - 2024 season to date in 27 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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31 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 62 | 81 | WWWWW |
2 |
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31 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 40 | 62 | WWWWD |
3 |
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31 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 48 | WWLLD |
4 |
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31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 46 | LLWLW |
5 |
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31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 46 | WWDLL |
6 |
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31 | 10 | 7 | 14 | -12 | 37 | LLWLW |
7 |
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31 | 9 | 7 | 15 | -9 | 34 | DLLWD |
8 |
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31 | 9 | 7 | 15 | -16 | 34 | DLLWL |
9 |
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31 | 7 | 10 | 14 | -14 | 31 | DWDWD |
10 |
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31 | 2 | 5 | 24 | -54 | 5 | LLLLL |
Hamilton Academical |
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Montrose |
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Edinburgh City |
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Stirling Albion |
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Annan Athletic |
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Hamilton Academical |
Kelty Hearts |
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Goals scored | 2.5 |
Goals conceded | 0.5 |
Time first goal scored | 36 |
Time first goal conceded | 56 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.3 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | null |
Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1.3 |
Time first goal scored | 38 |
Time first goal conceded | 26 |
Yellow cards | 1.1 |
Red cards | 0.3 |
Subs used | 2.4 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Callumn Morrison | 22 |
Ross MacIver | 14 |
Aidan Nesbitt | 10 |
Calvin Miller | 8 |
Alfredo Agyeman | 6 |
Rumarn Burrell | 20 |
Mitch Megginson | 8 |
Connor Scully | 5 |
Kyle Connell | 4 |
Josh Kerr | 4 |
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