Livingston V Grangemouth FC

Livingston v Falkirk
Almondvale Stadium, Livingston
Sat 28th Jan 2006
3pm Kick-Off

Fresh off the back of one of the worst showings in history in the CIS Cup Semi on wednesday, Livingston should be looking to repay the fans who made such a massive effort in midweek in this MUST WIN game for us. There can be no more excuses, there can be no more dilly dallying about with finding the right mix and hypothisising about what could or should have been - this is it.

The next two home games for us could completely turn our season if we emerge from it unscathed. It could, however, put the first nails in our SPL coffin and trigger WIDESPREAD calls for the managers head. We play our two relegation rivals, on our own patch and we should be looking to put our stamp on them. Our players ARE better and they simply MUST show that. The manager seems to be trying his best to hamper proceedings, but if the players really wanted it - they'd go out and do it.

So we look to the first of these two games and we see it is against the free-falling falkirk. Following a decent start to the season and decent results and showings against the "big teams" they've been humped recently by just about everyone.

Head to head
Of the eighteen games which have now been played between livingston and falkirk, Livingston have emerged with points eleven times. That's not good enough though, we will (should?) be looking to take our fifth win against the grangemouth unwashed. It's interesting to note that from the last four games at livingston, they have ended with two wins and SEVEN goals for livi...

Form
Both teams last six games have ended with five defeats. Of the last six home games, we've - remarkably - won twice! Falkirks away form is slightly better though, emerging victorious on three occasions. The worrying thing is that falkirk have scored ten goals on their travels, we've only managed five in the same period at home. However, falkirk have conceeded 11 compared to our 8.

Opposition

The falkirk team (main star pictured right) are rubbish. Nuff said.

Verdict
As said before we MUST MUST MUST win this game. On our side is that it's not quite as critical to falkirk if they lose, but for me this game has draw written all over it. A draw though, Is NOT good enough. We MUST pick up three points against our rivals, for both table places and on a psychological level.

Livingston 2 - 1 Falkirk. (two own goals from falkirk)