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Greenock Morton vs Dunfermline Athletic Live Stream, Predictions
Greenock Morton play host to visiting club Dunfermline Athletic at Cappielow Park in this Championship tie on Saturday.
All of our predictions, stats and the user poll for Greenock Morton v Dunfermline Athletic are shown below - plus the latest match odds.
๐ Form Guide
Greenock Morton
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Greenock Morton will be looking for an improved result here following the 2-1 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Partick Thistle.
The only scorer from Greenock Morton was Robbie Muirhead (94'). Brian Graham (28') and Scott Robinson (52') scored for Partick Thistle.
Itโs been seldom in recent games where Greenock Morton havenโt conceded. The facts show that Greenock Morton have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 7 goals in the process.
Coming into this clash, Greenock Morton are without a home win in the past 2 league games.
Dunfermline Athletic
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Dunfermline Athletic head into the encounter following on from a 3-1 Championship win in the defeat of Dundee United in their most recent outing.
For Dunfermline Athletic, goals were scored by Matty Todd (11'), Kane Ritchie-Hosler (37', 53') and Kyle Benedictus (80' Own goal).
James McPake's Dunfermline Athletic have converted 8 times in the course of their previous six matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 6.
Coming into this fixture, Dunfermline Athletic are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.
๐ฅ Head to head
An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 06/11/2021 shows us that Greenock Morton have won 3 of them & Dunfermline Athletic 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.
There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.
The previous league game between these sides was Championship match day 23 on 03/02/2024 when the final score was Dunfermline Athletic 0-5 Greenock Morton.
The referee was Kevin Clancy.
๐ฐ Team News: Greenock Morton
There arenโt many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Greenock Morton manager Dougie Imrie to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Jack Harkness (Hamstring injury) misses out.
๐๏ธ Team News: Dunfermline Athletic
Dunfermline Athletic boss James McPake has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Rhys Breen (Knee problems) and Andy Tod (Calf problems) are not able to play.
โจ Prediction
We envisage that Dunfermline Athletic are certainly able to get a goal against this Greenock Morton lineup, although it probably shouldnโt be as many as they will have scored against them.
Weโre predicting a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Greenock Morton at the end of the match. We are expecting it to be pretty even.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest, 14:02 23/03/2024
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Greenock Morton
Formed: 1874
Stadium: Cappielow Park (11,589)
Captain: Grant Gillespie
Chairman: Graham McLennan
Manager: Dougie Imrie
Competitions: Championship position 5
โญ Key Man: George Oakley
Regularly deployed in the Striker position, George Oakley was born in Wandsworth, England. After having played his first senior match for AFC Wimbledon in the 2014 - 2015 season, the accomplished Forward has contributed 8 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 season to date coming from a total of 18 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 36 | 58 | LDWWL |
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29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 58 | DLWWD |
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29 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 43 | LDDLW |
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28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 39 | WDWDW |
5 |
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28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 37 | WDLLL |
6 |
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29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | -6 | 35 | DWLLW |
7 |
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28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | -11 | 35 | WLWLW |
8 |
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29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 33 | LWDDD |
9 |
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29 | 7 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 31 | DDWDL |
10 |
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28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -34 | 23 | DLWLL |
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Hearts |
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Dundee United |
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Inverness C.T. |
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Dundee United |
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Airdrie United |
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Ayr United |
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Dundee United |
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Airdrie United |
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Arbroath |
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Partick Thistle |
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Queen's Park |
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Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 37 |
Time first goal conceded | 41 |
Yellow cards | 3.1 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.4 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.1 |
Time first goal scored | 50 |
Time first goal conceded | 55 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 2.9 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Robbie Muirhead | 10 |
George Oakley | 8 |
Jack Baird | 3 |
Robbie Crawford | 3 |
Steven Boyd | 2 |
Craig Wighton | 5 |
Lewis McCann | 4 |
Matty Todd | 4 |
Owen Moffat | 3 |
Josh Edwards | 2 |
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Dundee United |
Arbroath |
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Raith Rovers |
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Arbroath |
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Partick Thistle |
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