About Match
Tranent Juniors (1st, 18 pts) visit Civil Service Strollers (10th, 7 pts) with 11 points between them. Civil Service Strollers have been under-performing their position — 19th on five-round form against 10th in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: Civil Service Strollers 1.33 scored and 1.83 conceded per game, Tranent Juniors 2.17 and 0.33, with the league averaging 1.98.
Civil Service Strollers have been beaten in three straight games. Tranent Juniors enter with six wins in a row, having scored in 6 consecutive games. Recent form is uneven: 6/15 points for Civil Service Strollers, 15/15 for Tranent Juniors.
7 meetings are on record — 3 won by Civil Service Strollers, 4 by Tranent Juniors, 0 drawn, at 2.86 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 71% of the meetings. 71% of the meetings finished with three goals or more.
The venue is Civil Service Sports Ground in Edinburgh, with room for 20,421 spectators.