Stranraer vs Stirling Albion Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Stranraer

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Stranraer won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 3-2 League Two losing effort in their last game against Forfar Athletic.

For Stranraer, the goals were scored by Josh Walker (34') and Tommy Muir (70'). Scott Shepherd (42', 64') and Grant Anderson (60') scored for Forfar Athletic.

Matches featuring Stranraer have usually been engaging affairs recently with plenty of scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past 6 games alone, the sum total of 23 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 11 of those coming from Stranraer. That pattern might not be sustained into this match, however.

Pre-game facts show that Stranraer:

• have left without a victory over Stirling Albion in their last 3 matches in the league.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Stirling Albion

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Since being beaten in their last game against Kelty Hearts in League Two competition, Stirling Albion and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Nathan Austin (4') and Joe Cardle (58', 78') scored for Kelty Hearts.

The numbers tell their own story, and Stirling Albion have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 11 goals overall. At the back, Stirling Albion have clearly had some problems.

Ahead of this clash, Stirling Albion haven't been beaten by Stranraer when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 17/03/2015 shows us that Stranraer have won 2 of these games and Stirling Albion 1, with the number of draws standing at 3.

A combined sum of 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 of them from The Blues and 8 coming from The Binos. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

🗞️ Team News: Stranraer

The Stranraer boss Jamie Hamill will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever before this clash with a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Stirling Albion

Due to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, the Stirling Albion boss Darren Young has no fitness worries at all coming into this clash.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Stirling Albion and Stranraer should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. That’s why our selection here is for a tight encounter with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

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Victor Martins, 00:54 11/01/2022