Premiership match prediction: Little separates Ross County and St. Mirren in quality

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 21.Oct
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Global Energy Stadium (6541 seats)

Ross County will cross fingers that their home advantage is enough to get at least a draw from this difficult meeting, vs sparky St. Mirren.

Insights:
  • Ross County have the most conceded goals in the first half (7) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Ross County form and stats

1 victory, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Ross County have to build on here at Global Energy Stadium in the Premiership.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 211 minutes without scoring a league goal. Murray was the last player to find the net.

The Ross County crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Hearts here at Global Energy Stadium. The attacking player Dhanda won the honour of being "man of the match" for Ross County with a rating of 7.13/10. Dhanda hit two key passes.

Before that result, a home defeat in the League Cup against Aberdeen.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ross County as they are travelling to their away game against Dundee in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.

County have scored {3 league goals} here from 4 matches, not a lot.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Playing away, St. Mirren have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premiership this season.

The manager Robinson was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground The Smisa Stadium. St. Mirren suffered a 0-3 loss to Rangers (placed 2nd). Until that defeat this side had gained at least a draw from seven league fixtures in a row.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Kilmarnock that ended 1-1.

St. Mirren has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games.

Head 2 Head

Data for the preceeding ten meetings between these two squads are: two wins for Ross County, two draws and six wins for St. Mirren. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

CountyS. Murray
S. Murray
2 goals
Ross CountyC. Randall
C. Randall
1 goals
Ross CountyJ. White
J. White
1 goals

Ross County missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Ross County St. Mirren
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 4 2 Played P 1 4 8
2 1 0 Won W 0 2 4
1 1 0 Drew D 1 2 3
4 2 2 Lost L 0 0 1
6 3 0 Scored S 1 6 11
12 4 3 Conceded C 1 4 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 75%
29% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 50%
29% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 25%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 12%
29% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 62%
29% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
43% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 12%
 
5.1 5.2 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.5 4.1
6.4 5.5 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.8 5.9
3 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.1 13 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.2 9.5
3.4 4 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.4
25% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 43% 41%
 
14.9 14.5 20.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.8 11.8
5.7 4.5 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4.5 4.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County have the most conceded goals in the first half (7) in Premiership
  • Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game away.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • St. Mirren 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 8 7 1 0 19 5 4 3 1 0 10 3 4 4 0 0 9 2 14 22
2 Rangers 8 5 0 3 13 5 4 2 0 2 6 4 4 3 0 1 7 1 8 15
3 St. Mirren 8 4 3 1 11 10 4 2 1 1 5 6 4 2 2 0 6 4 1 15
4 Hearts 8 3 2 3 7 5 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 2 0 2 3 2 2 11
5 Motherwell 8 3 1 4 7 9 4 2 0 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 2 4 -2 10
6 Livingston 8 2 4 2 8 12 4 1 2 1 3 4 4 1 2 1 5 8 -4 10
7 Hibernian 8 2 3 3 13 12 4 1 1 2 6 6 4 1 2 1 7 6 1 9
8 Aberdeen 8 2 3 3 10 10 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 9
9 Kilmarnock 8 1 4 3 8 11 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 0 2 2 4 7 -3 7
10 Dundee 7 1 4 2 7 10 3 1 2 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 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 8 0 4 4 3 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 4 0 2 2 0 4 -8 4

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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.