Football match preview: St. Johnstone vs Motherwell

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 21.Oct
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

St. Johnstone are aiming to stop thinking about the league table ahead of this match vs Motherwell. Here's all you must know pre-match!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premiership
  • Motherwell have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership

Both squads have had sufficient rest since their last match. Let's trust this will be an enthusiastic fixture!

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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone have collected 2 points from their Premiership home games so far after 0-2-2.

St. Johnstone shared the glory with Aberdeen in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Mitov, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.42 out of 10 in that game. Mitov topped it up with a clean sheet.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Livingston.

Johnstone have scored {3 league goals} here from 4 matches, not a lot. St. Johnstone have conceded 7 from these games.

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Motherwell form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership, are W1-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. With the Motherwell losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

Two away games in a row for Motherwell, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Livingston. Attacker Bair got a player rating of 7.11 in the game. "Man of the match" Bair dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.

Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Celtic.

Goals are few and far between in Motherwell's away league games. Only {2 goals} from 4 travels.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - three - two (St. Johnstone wins - draws - Motherwell wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. JohnstoneM. Kucheryavyi
M. Kucheryavyi
2 goals
JohnstoneD. Costelloe
D. Costelloe
1 goals
MotherwellC. Slattery
C. Slattery
1 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Motherwell missing players

St. Johnstone Motherwell
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 4 8
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 3
4 2 1 Drew D 1 1 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 2 4
3 3 1 Scored S 1 2 7
11 7 1 Conceded C 1 4 9
75% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 62%
12% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 38%
12% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 25% 50%
25% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 12%
75% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 38%
 
4.1 4.5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 12 6 5.2
7 5.5 2 Corners against (avg) C A 7 7 5.6
2.8 3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.8 2.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
8.9 8.2 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13 8.2 10.8
1.9 2.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.2 4.2
20% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 15% 21%
 
15 13.8 7 Shots against (avg) S A 17 15.8 14
5.8 5.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of St. Johnstone's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Motherwell have scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.
  • Motherwell have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest points (2) at home in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the most conceded goals (7) at home in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the the worst goal difference (-4) at home in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the the worst goal difference (-8) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have yet to win a game.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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

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.