Tayport vs Wick Academy Prediction & Betting Tips

Two very different form samples

Wick Academy's last 20 matches, running from late February through to mid-September, show just three wins and a draw against sixteen defeats. They've shipped 50 goals in that spell while scoring only 16, which points to a side that's really been struggling for a long stretch, not just a couple of bad results.

Tayport: 3 completed matches; Wick Academy: 20 completed matches.

Tayport

3 matches

Win

66.7% 2 / 3

Draw

0% 0 / 3

Loss

33.3% 1 / 3

Scored

7

Conceded

5

Difference

+2

Wick Academy

20 matches

Win

15% 3 / 20

Draw

5% 1 / 20

Loss

80% 16 / 20

Scored

17

Conceded

53

Difference

-36

Tayport's sample is much smaller and considerably older, three cup ties from roughly a year before this fixture, with two wins and a loss, seven goals scored and five conceded. That's simply not enough, and not recent enough, to say much about where they stand heading into this game.

Wick's poor run is the clearest signal here, but we've got little current evidence on Tayport to weigh against it.

What the cup tie might turn on

Cup football doesn't always follow league form, and with barely any recent data on Tayport it's tough to say what shape they're actually in right now. What we can say is that Wick have lost the vast majority of their recent games by some margin, so if that pattern continues it would hand Tayport a real chance regardless of their own current level.

There's also the one-off nature of a cup tie to factor in. A team going through a rough patch can still raise their game for a single match, so Wick's numbers shouldn't be read as a guaranteed outcome here.