Raith Rovers will be the visitors at Cappielow Park on Saturday for the Championship clash with home side Greenock Morton.
View all of the Greenock Morton v Raith Rovers predictions, poll and stats below (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
Greenock Morton
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Greenock Morton, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 Championship success vs Arbroath.
For Greenock Morton, the goalscorers were Robbie Crawford (56') and George Oakley (58'). Michael McKenna (68') was the scorer for Arbroath.
It has not been often in recent times where Greenock Morton have shown defensive steel. In fact, Greenock Morton have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 10 goals in the process. Historical results aside, it remains to be seen if the trend will be replicated in this upcoming match.
Going into this contest, Greenock Morton are winless against Raith Rovers in their previous 3 league games.
Raith Rovers
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Raith Rovers will go into this game following on from a 0-1 Championship win to beat Inverness C.T. in their previous outing.
The only name on the scoresheet from Raith Rovers was Lewis Vaughan (49').
The strike force from Raith Rovers have had real problems scoring goals over their previous 6 clashes, contributing the poor return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Rovers have also seen the collective goal tally of their opponents equal 6.
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Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 10/12/2022 shows that Greenock Morton have won 1 of them and Raith Rovers 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.
An aggregate of 15 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from The Ton and 8 belonging to The Rovers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.
The previous league clash between these clubs was Championship match day 26 on 27/02/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Raith Rovers 0-0 Greenock Morton.
The referee was Steven Kirkland.
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Team News: Greenock Morton
Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Greenock Morton boss Dougie Imrie to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Jack Harkness (Hamstring injury) misses out.
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Team News: Raith Rovers
Due to a completely injury-free squad to pick from, the Raith Rovers boss Ian Murray has no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.
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Prediction
Our thinking is that Raith Rovers and Greenock Morton may well both score, with little between these two teams.
There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. We’re therefore tipping a very close game with a 1-1 draw at the end of the match.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite,
00:17 25/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Greenock Morton
Formed: 1874
Stadium: Cappielow Park (11,589)
Captain: Grant Gillespie
Chairman: Graham McLennan
Manager: Dougie Imrie
Competitions: Championship position 5
🔑 Key Player: Robbie Muirhead
Regularly used in the Striker position, Robbie Muirhead was born in Irvine, Scotland. After making a first senior appearance for Kilmarnock in the 2012 - 2013 season, the skilful Forward has got 12 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 season so far in a total of 31 appearances.