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East Fife vs Stranraer Live Stream, Predictions
The League Two clash at MGM Timber Bayview Stadium on Saturday will see hosts East Fife welcoming opponents Stranraer.
Full predictions, stats & game poll for the East Fife v Stranraer match are shown here - plus the latest match odds.
๐ Form Guide
East Fife
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East Fife enter this fixture following on from a 1-1 League Two draw against Peterhead.
The only scorer from East Fife was Alan Trouten (58'). Peter Pawlett (29') scored for Peterhead.
It has been seldom in recent games where East Fife have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that East Fife have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 6 goals on the way. Even so, time will tell if that trend shall persist in this match.
Their previous form shows that East Fife:
- are unbeaten in the league by Stranraer in their last 4 matches.
- have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.
Stranraer
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After a losing effort in their last game against Elgin City in League Two competition, Stranraer will be aiming to make amends here.
Connall Ewan (53'), Freddy Jeffreys (64') and Mark Gallagher (79' Own goal) scored for Elgin City.
Scott Agnew's Stranraer have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 8 times throughout their previous sextet of matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period adds up to 8.
Looking at the pre-match facts, Stranraer:
- have left without a victory over East Fife when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
- have not won away from home in their last 13 league matches. What a horror away run it has been.
โ๏ธ Head to head
Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 21/01/2023 shows that East Fife have won 3 of these and Stranraer 2, with the tally of draws being 1.
An aggregate of 21 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 15 of them for The Fife and 6 for The Blues. The average goals per game has been 3.5.
The last league meeting featuring the two was League Two match day 22 on 27/01/2024 which ended up with the score at Stranraer 0-1 East Fife.
The referee was Andy Gamble.
โน๏ธ Team News: East Fife
The East Fife boss Dick Campbell does not have any fitness worries at all coming into this game owing to a completely healthy group to pick from.
๐ฐ Team News: Stranraer
Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Stranraer boss Scott Agnew does not have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match.
โจ Prediction
Our thinking is that East Fife will probably see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.
In contrast, Stranraer may well find it hard to get a goal of their own although we do see them hitting back at some stage here, too.
Weโre therefore anticipating a controlled 3-1 winning score for East Fife by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 14:02 23/03/2024
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
East Fife
Formed: 1903
Stadium: MGM Timber Bayview Stadium (1,980)
Captain: Stewart Murdoch
Chairman: Jim Stevenson
Manager: Dick Campbell
Competitions: League Two position 5
๐ Key Player: Brogan Walls
Mostly playing in the Centre Midfield position, Brogan Walls was born in Scotland. Having played his first senior match for East Fife in the 2022 - 2023 season, the goalscoring Midfielder has contributed 4 league goals in this League Two 2023 - 2024 season so far in 29 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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29 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 62 | DLWDD |
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29 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 47 | DDLWD |
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29 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 45 | WWLLW |
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29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 45 | WLDDL |
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29 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 37 | WDWWD |
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29 | 7 | 14 | 8 | -2 | 35 | WDDWD |
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29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | -19 | 35 | DDLWW |
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29 | 7 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 30 | LLDLL |
9 |
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29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | -13 | 30 | LDWLL |
10 |
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29 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -13 | 27 | LWWLW |
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Dumbarton |
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Forfar Athletic |
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Elgin City |
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Forfar Athletic |
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Clyde |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 22 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 1.4 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 3.1 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 0.7 |
Goals conceded | 2.1 |
Time first goal scored | 35 |
Time first goal conceded | 24 |
Yellow cards | 1.7 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.9 |
Biggest victory | 1-0 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Nathan Austin | 13 |
Alan Trouten | 9 |
Brogan Walls | 4 |
Scott Shepherd | 3 |
Brian Easton | 2 |
Thomas Orr | 5 |
James Dolan | 4 |
Matty Grant | 4 |
Deryn Lang | 4 |
Ben Armour | 3 |
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Clyde |
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