📊 Form Guide

Stirling Albion

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Stirling Albion will be looking for another win after the 3-1 League Two triumph vs Elgin City.

For Stirling Albion, the goals were scored by Dale Hilson (29'), Jack Harkness (32') and Adam Brown (64'). Ross Draper (70') scored for Elgin City.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Stirling Albion have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Stirling Albion have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 13 goals during that time. Nonetheless, we will just have to wait and see if the trend will be maintained here in this game or not.

Going into this one, Stirling Albion have not lost a league tie with Forfar Athletic in their previous 8 games. A long run without a loss.

Forfar Athletic

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After being beaten in their last game against Edinburgh City in League Two competition, Forfar Athletic will be aiming to make amends here.

Jon Robertson (34') was the scorer for Edinburgh City.

The stats tell the story, and Forfar Athletic have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, conceding 8 goals in total. At the back, Forfar Athletic seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Taking a look at their past results, Forfar Athletic:

• have not emerged victorious against Stirling Albion when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without an away win for the past 6 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 24/09/2022 tells us that these encounters have been pretty painful for Forfar Athletic. They’ve not been able to come away with any wins at all whereas Stirling Albion have been dominant against them, beating them in 67 per cent of those matches.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 12 of them for The Binos and 5 created by The Loons. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league game between the two was League Two match day 18 on 28/12/2024 when it finished Forfar Athletic 2-2 Stirling Albion.

The match was refereed by George Calder.

🗞️ Team News: Stirling Albion

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the sole fitness concern for the Stirling Albion boss Alan Maybury to be concerned about from an otherwise complete set of players. 5   (Stirling Albion ) misses out.

🗞️ Team News: Forfar Athletic

Owing to an otherwise healthy group, there’s only the one fitness problem for the Forfar Athletic manager Jim Weir to be concerned with. 10   (Forfar Athletic) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Forfar Athletic and Stirling Albion should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. We therefore see a very even match with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 14:05 15/02/2025