Motherwell vs St. Mirren preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 16.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Motherwell battle St. Mirren, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership, for kudos and football prosperity.

Insights:
  • Motherwell have the most points from losing position (3) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership

Both sides have had plenty of rest since their previous match. Let's have faith in that this will be an active game!

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Motherwell form and stats

Perfect Premiership season at home so far for Motherwell 2 wins from 2 appearances.

Happy days for Motherwell in their previous game, a fixture away at Hearts (placed 8th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Midfield player Miller got a match rating of 8.05 in that game, the max score being 10. Miller hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Before that, Motherwell had a home game versus Kilmarnock which ended with a victory 2-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Motherwell perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Motherwell as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Motherwell has won 8 of these, drawn 1 and lost 3.

Early season league goal statistics from Motherwell's 2 home games: {4 goals}, 2 conceded.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Four points from two away games for St. Mirren, meaning one draw and one victory in the Premiership so far.

Mirren are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Livingston (placed 7th). As mentioned above, St. Mirren drew the match against Livingston. Manager Robinson brought on Nachmani to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Gogić, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.64. Gogić served one assist, hit two key passes and won 10 of 14 duels.

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Aberdeen.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by St. Mirren in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for St. Mirren, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

St. Mirren have the goal stats of 4-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Motherwell four wins, four draws and St. Mirren two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellC. Slattery
C. Slattery
1 goals
MotherwellH. Paton
H. Paton
1 goals
MotherwellC. Wilkinson
C. Wilkinson
1 goals

Motherwell missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Motherwell St. Mirren
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 0 2 4
3 2 0 Won W 0 1 2
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
6 4 0 Scored S 0 4 8
3 2 0 Conceded C 0 3 6
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
75% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 75%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 25%
75% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
25% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
5.8 3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.5 4.2
7.8 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4 3.5
3.2 3.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.5 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 11.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8 11
4.2 5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4
35% 40% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 50%
 
12.8 8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 13.5 9.5
1.8 2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.5 3.8
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell have the most points (6) at home in Premiership
  • Motherwell have the most points from losing position (3) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership

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.