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Predictions and Tips
Kelty Hearts visit Balmoral Stadium on Saturday for the League One game with hosts Cove Rangers.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Cove Rangers v Kelty Hearts (plus the best game odds).
📊 Form Guide

Cove Rangers
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Cove Rangers go into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 League One drawn match against Alloa Athletic.
Cameron O'Donnell (45' Own goal) and Magnus MacKenzie (65') scored for Alloa Athletic.
It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Cove Rangers haven’t conceded. The reality is that Cove Rangers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals along the way. Such a trend won’t necessarily be continued into this next game, however.
Heading into this contest, Cove Rangers are without a win at home for the past 3 league matches.
Kelty Hearts
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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Queen Of The South in League One competition, Kelty Hearts will be aiming to make amends here.
The only name on the scoresheet from Kelty Hearts was Jacob MacIntyre (3'). Benjamin Luissint (28'), Jordan Allan (63') and Kai Kennedy (69') scored for Queen Of The South.
Thomas O'Ware's Kelty Hearts have fired home a total of 5 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during that period comes to 12.
🤜🤛 Head to head
An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 11/11/2023 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Kelty Hearts. They have not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever while Cove Rangers have just been stronger than them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those ties.
An aggregate of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from The Wee Rangers and 3 for The Jambos. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.
The last league meeting between these sides was League One match day 24 on 11/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Kelty Hearts 0-4 Cove Rangers.
The referee was Daniel Graves.
💭 Prediction
We’re of the opinion that Cove Rangers will more than likely create enough chances to score more than one against Kelty Hearts, who might well find it a difficult task to score themselves.
Therefore, we are anticipating a pretty comfortable 2-0 victory for Cove Rangers after 90 minutes.
Andre Moura, 13:03 26/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
Cove Rangers
Formed: 1922
Stadium: Balmoral Stadium (3,023)
Captain: Mitch Megginson
Chairman: Keith Moorhouse
Manager: Paul Hartley
Competitions: League One position 2
🔑 Key Man: Adam Emslie
Normally used in the Left Wing position, Adam Emslie was born in Scotland. Having played his first senior match for Cove Rangers in the 2024 - 2025 season, the goalscoring Forward has scored a sum of 9 league goals in this League One 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 32 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 63 | DWWWL |
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34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 53 | DLLWD |
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34 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 51 | DWWWW |
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34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 50 | DLLLD |
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34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 48 | DLWWD |
6 |
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34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | -6 | 40 | WWLLD |
7 |
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34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 40 | DLLWL |
8 |
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34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 37 | DLWLD |
9 |
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34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | -23 | 36 | LWLLW |
10 |
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34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | -16 | 17 | DWWLD |
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Airdrie United |
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Queen Of The South |
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Annan Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
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Alloa Athletic |
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Alloa Athletic |
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Queen Of The South |
Inverness C.T. |
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Dumbarton |
Annan Athletic |
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Alloa Athletic |
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Inverness C.T. |
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Stenhousemuir |
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Queen Of The South |
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Dumbarton |
Cove Rangers |
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Annan Athletic |
Inverness C.T. |
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Annan Athletic |
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Stenhousemuir |
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Queen Of The South |
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Arbroath |
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Alloa Athletic |
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Kelty Hearts |
Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1.3 |
Time first goal scored | 46 |
Time first goal conceded | 33 |
Yellow cards | 1.4 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.6 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 0.9 |
Time first goal scored | 47 |
Time first goal conceded | 41 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.5 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Mitch Megginson | 15 |
Adam Emslie | 13 |
Fraser Fyvie | 8 |
Findlay Marshall | 8 |
Myles Gaffney | 4 |
Ross Cunningham | 13 |
Scott Williamson | 7 |
Jacob MacIntyre | 3 |
Scott Allan | 2 |
Craig Johnston | 2 |
Airdrie United |
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