Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Hibernian & St. Mirren face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Hibernian nor St. Mirren as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Hibernian form and stats
Hibernian's last game was hosting St. Johnstone and winning 2-0. Miller, defender, was given a rating of 8.35/10 in that game, top of the team. Miller scored one goal, hit two key passes and won 13 of 24 duels.
A 2-2 draw away in the Premiership before that, with Kilmarnock the opponent.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Hibernian have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 8 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 2 and lost 3.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Hibernian as they have a new game in only three days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. Dundee are visiting.
Hibernian have prepared for this season with four friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these four matches are 3 victories, 0 draws and 1 losses. In these games, Hibernian have scored {8 goals} and conceded 6 times.
St. Mirren form and stats
Impressive finishing from Strain secured the home win 1-0 against Hearts in their previous game. Strain got a match rating of 8.43 in that game, top player of the team. Strain scored one goal and hit three key passes.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Motherwell at their stadium, the result 1-0.St. Mirren are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Mirren have another game away in just three sleeps, a Premiership fixture versus Kilmarnock. A rough schedule for the visitors!
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. St. Mirren have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats from five fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the last ten meetings): Hibernian won five games, two matches ended in a draw and St. Mirren have three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Le Fondre 3 goals |  C. Doidge 2 goals |  D. Vente 2 goals |
Hibernian missing players
St. Mirren missing players
| Hibernian | St. Mirren | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 44 | 27 | Scored | S | 17 | 37 | ||
| 41 | 21 | Conceded | C | 18 | 30 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 72% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 8% | ||
| 68% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 43% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 24% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.9 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.1 | 11.3 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.2 | ||
| 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 35% | ||
| 11.4 | 12.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 10.3 | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.6 | ||
