📊 Form Guide

Queen Of The South

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Queen Of The South will play in this fixture after a 0-0 League One stalemate versus Hamilton Academical.

Marvin Bartley's Queen Of The South have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 8 times in their past six outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those same fixtures stands at 11.

Kelty Hearts

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Kelty Hearts will go into this meeting after a 3-1 League One win in the defeat of Edinburgh City in their most recent outing.

For Kelty Hearts, the goalscorers were Alfie Bavidge (29', 51') and Craig Johnston (69'). Olly McDonald (8') was the scorer for Edinburgh City.

The stats don’t lie, and Kelty Hearts have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 14 goals in total. At the back, Kelty Hearts have some weaknesses to address.

Coming into this meeting, Kelty Hearts are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 10/01/2023 shows us that Queen Of The South have won 1 of these & Kelty Hearts 3, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

A total of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 6 for The Doonhamers and 10 for The Jambos. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was League One match day 24 on 10/02/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Kelty Hearts 0-0 Queen Of The South.

The referee was Alastair Grieve.

📋 Team News: Queen Of The South

The Queen Of The South boss Marvin Bartley will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this match thanks to a completely healthy group available for selection.

In all likelihood, The Doonhamers will possibly opt for a 3-4-3 formation in the match featuring Zach Hemming, Marcus Fraser, Alexandros Gogic, James Bolton, Ryan Strain, Mark O'Hara, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Scott Tanser, Toyosi Olusanya, Mikael Mandron and Greg Kiltie.

🗞️ Team News: Kelty Hearts

Due to a fully injury-free group to choose from, the Kelty Hearts boss Michael Tidser has zero fitness worries at all before this clash.

It’s our belief that The Jambos might play in a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Alexander Clark, Dexter Lembikisa, Stephen Kingsley, Frankie Kent, Alex Cochrane, Macaulay Tait, Cameron Devlin, Kenneth Vargas, Jorge Grant, Alan Forrest and Lawrence Shankland.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Queen Of The South have it within them to get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

At the other end, Kelty Hearts may well find it hard to break down their defence although we do think it’s probable that they will be pulling one back during this clash.

Therefore, we are anticipating a controlled 3-1 margin for Queen Of The South after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 13:05 06/04/2024