Balanced ball game between Livingston and Motherwell expected

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 07.Oct
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Livingston are aiming to take no notice of the league table ahead of this game against Motherwell. Here's everything you should know before the game!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the most conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premiership
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Livingston form and stats

Three Premiership home games done for Livingston, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches.

The Livingston coach Martindale and his gang return home after a 1-1 draw away versus St. Johnstone (placed 12th). Nouble, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the champion performer for the side in that fixture, scoring a rating of 7.83 (out of 10). Nouble dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.

Before that, a loss in the away fixture against Rangers in the League Cup.

Livingston has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {1 goals} from 3 games. Livingston have conceded 4 in these home matches.

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Motherwell form and stats

Motherwell are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Celtic with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Motherwell were so close to getting something from the game against Celtic, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal seven minutes into overtime. Attacker Spittal got a player rating of 8.32 in the game. "Man of the match" Spittal scored one goal and hit three key passes.

Prior to that match, the Motherwell manager Kettlewell faced defeat when travelling to Rangers and losing 0-1.

The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Motherwell are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Motherwell have pulled off a sequence of 10 consecutive games without defeat (6-4-0) when facing Livingston.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
2 goals
LivingstonS. Kelly
S. Kelly
1 goals
LivingstonL. de Lucas Pérez
L. de Lucas Pérez
1 goals

Livingston missing players

Motherwell missing players

Livingston Motherwell
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 1 3 7
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 3
4 2 1 Drew D 1 1 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 3
6 1 0 Scored S 1 2 7
12 4 0 Conceded C 1 2 7
86% 67% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
86% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 33% 57%
43% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 43%
29% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 57%
14% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 14%
43% 67% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
3.7 5 7 Corners for (avg) C F 12 6.3 5.3
5.4 4.3 7 Corners against (avg) C A 7 8.3 6
3 3.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.4 13.3 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13 10 11.9
2.7 2.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.7 4.6
32% 12% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 18% 22%
 
13.7 11 11 Shots against (avg) S A 17 17.3 14.4
4.3 3.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.3 3.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Premiership
  • Livingston have the most conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premiership
  • Livingston have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Livingston have yet to win a game at home.
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 7 6 1 0 16 4 3 2 1 0 7 2 4 4 0 0 9 2 12 19
2 St. Mirren 7 4 3 0 11 7 3 2 1 0 5 3 4 2 2 0 6 4 4 15
3 Rangers 7 4 0 3 10 5 4 2 0 2 6 4 3 2 0 1 4 1 5 12
4 Hearts 7 3 1 3 5 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 0 2 3 2 2 10
5 Motherwell 7 3 1 3 7 7 4 2 0 2 5 5 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 10
6 Hibernian 7 2 2 3 11 10 4 1 1 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 8
7 Aberdeen 7 2 2 3 10 10 3 1 0 2 5 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 8
8 Kilmarnock 7 1 4 2 7 8 4 1 2 1 4 4 3 0 2 1 3 4 -1 7
9 Dundee 7 1 4 2 7 10 3 1 2 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 7
10 Livingston 7 1 4 2 6 12 3 0 2 1 1 4 4 1 2 1 5 8 -6 7
11 Ross County 7 2 1 4 6 12 4 1 1 2 3 4 3 1 0 2 3 8 -6 7
12 St. Johnstone 7 0 3 4 3 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 3 0 1 2 0 4 -8 3

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.