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Cove Rangers vs Montrose Live Stream, Predictions
Montrose will arrive at Balmoral Stadium on Saturday for the League One game with home side Cove Rangers.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Cove Rangers v Montrose game - plus the latest betting odds.
📊 Form Guide
Cove Rangers
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Cove Rangers will be hoping to bounce back here after a 0-1 League One defeat last time out to Falkirk.
Calvin Miller (83') scored for Falkirk.
It’s been seldom in recent times where Cove Rangers have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Cove Rangers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 10 goals in the process. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern shall continue on in this match.
Going into this encounter, Cove Rangers haven't been beaten in the league by Montrose in their previous 8 games. A long run without a loss.
Montrose
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Montrose will go into this encounter following on from a 4-3 League One win to beat Alloa Athletic in their last game.
For Montrose, the goals were scored by Blair Lyons (7'), Seán Dillon (45'), Kane Hester (51') and Graham Webster (86'). Taylor Steven (32'), Ethan Sutherland (45') and Bobby Wales (67') scored for Alloa Athletic.
Indicating their predisposition for productive matches, goals have been seen as many as 26 times in the previous 6 games in which Montrose have played, giving an average of 4.33 goals for each clash. Opposing teams have hit 10 of these goals.
Heading into this fixture, Montrose haven't beaten Cove Rangers in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Checking on their prior head to head clashes going back to 15/01/2022 shows us that Cove Rangers have won 4 of these and Montrose 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
In all, 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 8 of them from The Wee Rangers and 4 being from The Gable Endies. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.
The last league meeting between these clubs was League One match day 19 on 30/12/2023 and the score finished Montrose 1-1 Cove Rangers.
The referee was Gavin Duncan.
🗞️ Team News: Cove Rangers
The Cove Rangers boss Paul Hartley will be grateful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash with a fully injury-free squad ready to go.
ℹ️ Team News: Montrose
With a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Montrose boss Stewart Petrie does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.
💭 Prediction
We’re thinking that Montrose will likely create enough chances to score a goal against this Cove Rangers team, however it realistically won’t be enough to avoid defeat.
We are anticipating both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Cove Rangers by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s see what happens here.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 14:04 09/03/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Cove Rangers
Formed: 1922
Stadium: Balmoral Stadium (3,023)
Captain: Mitch Megginson
Chairman: Keith Moorhouse
Manager: Paul Hartley
Competitions: League One position 5
🔑 Key Player: Rumarn Burrell
Mostly played in the Striker position, Rumarn Burrell was born in Birmingham, England. Having made a first senior appearance for Falkirk in the 2022 - 2023 season, the skilful Forward has hit 19 league goals in this League One 2023 - 2024 season to date in 26 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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27 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 49 | 69 | WWWDW |
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27 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 52 | LLLDW |
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27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 42 | WWLWW |
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26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 41 | WWWWL |
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27 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 40 | DLWWL |
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26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | -10 | 31 | DWLLL |
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27 | 8 | 7 | 12 | -11 | 31 | LLWDD |
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27 | 8 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 30 | LDDLD |
9 |
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27 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -16 | 23 | WLWLD |
10 |
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27 | 2 | 5 | 20 | -45 | 5 | LLDLL |
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Goals scored | 1.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 37 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.5 |
Biggest victory | 7-2 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Goals scored | 1.8 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 36 |
Time first goal conceded | 36 |
Yellow cards | 2.2 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 4.5 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Rumarn Burrell | 19 |
Mitch Megginson | 8 |
Connor Scully | 5 |
Kyle Connell | 3 |
Blair Yule | 3 |
Kane Hester | 9 |
Graham Webster | 9 |
Blair Lyons | 7 |
Craig Brown | 5 |
Aidan Quinn | 3 |
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