Arbroath vs Greenock Morton Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Arbroath

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Arbroath will be looking for an improved result here following a 5-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Ayr United.

Kurt Willoughby (23'), Frankie Musonda (32'), Anton Dowds (41'), Ben Dempsey (68') and Logan Chalmers (90') scored for Ayr United.

At least three goals per match have been seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Arbroath have participated. Opposing sides scored 18 times in these games whereas Arbroath managed to get a total of 6.

Their prior results show that Arbroath:

• have not won against Greenock Morton in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Greenock Morton

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Dundee United in Championship action, Greenock Morton will be hoping to turn things around here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Greenock Morton was Robbie Muirhead (62'). Ross Docherty (20'), Glenn Middleton (23'), Louis Moult (51') and Tony Watt (58') scored for Dundee United.

Looking at their form, and Greenock Morton have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals in all. In defence, Greenock Morton have not been doing too well. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Greenock Morton:

• are undefeated by Arbroath when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 5 league games.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 03/12/2022, neither club has come out on top overall with Arbroath winning 2 of those games, Greenock Morton 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

In all, 16 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 for The Red Lichties and 8 belonging to The Ton. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Championship match day 22 on 27/01/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Greenock Morton 3-0 Arbroath.

The match was refereed by Duncan Williams.

📰 Team News: Arbroath

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Arbroath manager Jim McIntyre to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Zak Delaney (unknown injury) misses out.

📋 Team News: Greenock Morton

Out of a mainly available squad, there is only a single fitness problem for the Greenock Morton gaffer Dougie Imrie to be concerned with. Jack Harkness (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Arbroath must be fancied to breach the defence of this Greenock Morton team, although just one goal possibly won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see both teams to score in a 1-2 advantage for Greenock Morton when the full-time whistle blows. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

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Peter Guest, 11:06 20/04/2024