This Saturday, we will be travelling to the Excelsior Stadium to face Airdrieonians in a 3^rd vs 10^th league encounter. Both teams enter this match from different perspectives, our hosts earned a home victory over Hamilton whereas we are coming off a tough 1-0 loss to St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup. Now, we return to league action and looking to grab 3 points.

We are looking to bounce back after a narrowing defeat and get back to our impressive league action and take another step towards promotion. We have scored 6 goals in our last five matches and kept 1 clean sheet in that time.

Airdrie come into this match with mixed form, having won two, drawn one, and lost two of their last five games. They have scored only five goals during that time and have conceded 6 goals in those 5 games.

One of our key players for us will be Andrew Shinnie who started up front alongside Robbie Muirhead on Monday. His experience and link-up play will be key, and he will be looking to add more goals to his game. Another key player is Stephen Kelly, who delivered a good performance in our last match, his creativeness from the midfield area will be critical into breaking our hosts backline.

In our last five meetings with Airdrieonians we have dominated, with the Lions picking up all 5 wins. The most recent encounter saw us secure a well-earned 2-1 victory at home, a result we will be eager to replicate away from home and narrow that gap to top spot.

Robyn Harraughty

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