Falkirk vs Dundee - prediction, team news, lineups

Falkirk and Dundee volition clash astatine the Falkirk Stadium connected Saturday day successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are 11th successful the league array with six points from 7 games, portion the visitors are 4th with 10 points from 7 league matches.

Match preview

Falkirk enjoyed a fantastic archetypal run backmost successful the Scottish Premiership past term, securing a sixth-placed decorativeness with 49 points from 38 league fixtures. 

John McGlynn's broadside person failed to scope those aforesaid heights frankincense acold this season, failing to suffice from the Scottish League Cup radical signifier and accumulating conscionable six points from 7 league matches, signaling 1 win, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

The Bairns person faced peculiar struggles successful guardant areas, scoring a league-low six goals successful 7 matches, associated with bottommost of the league Kilmarnock. 

Despite their dilatory commencement to the term, Falkirk's fortunes person seemingly started to crook successful caller matches, remaining unbeaten successful the past 3 games with 2 draws and 1 win. 

Falkirk were devastatingly denied victories against some Dundee United and St Johnstone aft conceding stoppage-time equalisers, sandwiched astir a daze 2-1 triumph against Hearts.

Aiming to widen their unbeaten tally and determination further distant from bottommost of the table, Falkirk volition beryllium eyeing each 3 points erstwhile they invited Dundee to Falkirk Stadium. 

Dundee, aft ensuring their endurance with 3 wins successful 5 post-split fixtures past term, person maintained that momentum astatine the opening of the caller season. 

Alongside progressing from the League Cup radical stage, followed by losing to Aberdeen successful the 2nd round, Dundee person recorded 3 wins, 1 gully and 3 defeats successful their opening 7 league matches. 

Steven Pressley's squad person scored 9 goals, lone less than Celtic (14) and Hearts (14), portion their tally of 7 goals conceded is lone bettered by Celtic (four) and Rangers (four).

The Dark Blue did negociate to extremity a concerning three-game winless tally with a 2-1 triumph implicit Motherwell successful the last lucifer earlier the planetary break, and Pressley volition beryllium looking for his broadside to physique connected that effect connected Saturday. 

Another 3 points could spot Dundee ascent to 3rd spot depending connected Hearts' effect against St Mirren, portion decision could spot them driblet up to 4 places.

Dundee volition person to flooded a miserable distant grounds against Falkirk if they are to assertion each the points, having won lone 1 of their past 10 visits to the Falkirk Stadium.

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Team News

Falkirk are dealing with respective wounded concerns, with Joe Gardner, Finn Yeats, Ethan Laidlaw and Aidan Nesbitt ruled out, portion Conor McLeod and Keelan Adams are doubts to feature.

After extending their unbeaten tally to 3 matches, McGlynn whitethorn opt to sanction an unchanged starting 11 successful hunt of different affirmative effect connected Saturday.

Meanwhile, Dundee are lone expected to beryllium without Ashley Hay, with the remainder of the squad expected to beryllium disposable for selection.

Joe Westley is Dundee's apical scorer with 3 league goals, including netting against Motherwell past clip out, and the striker should proceed alongside Bradley Fink, who besides scored successful that victory, successful this one.

Falkirk imaginable starting lineup:

Bain; Strain, Melniks, Henderson, McCann; Barbrook, Spencer; Ross, Krauhaus, Eames; Murrell

Dundee imaginable starting lineup:

Goodman; Wright, Bevan, Astley, Samuels; Forrest, Hamilton, Jones, Moorhouse; Westley, Fink

We say: Falkirk 1-1 Dundee

Falkirk volition beryllium boosted by their caller results, and though Dundee person had a stronger commencement to the season, they person struggled successful their distant clashes with the Bairns, starring america to expect a draw.

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