Championship match preview and statistics: Dundee fight Inverness CT

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Date: Sat 04.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Dens Park (11506 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Dundee - Inverness CT!

Dundee and Inverness CT should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Dundee form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Dundee are 5-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).

Dundee manager J. McPake and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Dundee United (placed 1st) in the Championship. In the game before, an away victory match versus Partick Thistle with a 1-0 scoreline.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Dundee have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won 2 Drawn 1 Lost 1.

Dundee are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. Dundee have conceded 12 in these home matches.

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Inverness CT form and stats

4-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Inverness CT, who have the most clean sheets (10) in Championship, in their Championship matches away.

Inverness CT failed to get anything from their last game, a Championship home match vs Arbroath (placed 7th) that ended with defeat 0-1. A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Dunfermline Athletic.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Inverness CT in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Inverness CT, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Inverness CT have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. Inverness CT have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Inverness CT - Dundee 1-0 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 3 - 4 (Dundee wins - draws - Inverness CT wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

DundeeK. Hemmings
K. Hemmings
6 goals
DundeeD. Johnson
D. Johnson
5 goals
DundeeP. McGowan
P. McGowan
4 goals

Dundee missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Dundee Inverness CT
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 1 9 19
8 5 0 Won W 0 4 10
5 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
6 3 1 Lost L 1 4 7
26 13 0 Scored S 1 10 27
26 12 2 Conceded C 4 12 22
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
74% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 79%
47% 56% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 44% 47%
21% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 22% 26%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 11% 11%
58% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 32%
26% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 56% 53%
21% 22% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 21%
 
5.5 6.3 4 Corners For (avg) C F 6 4.7 6
5.2 4.6 0 Corners Against (avg) C A 6 7.1 5.8
1.8 1.6 3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 1.5
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
205 109 6 Total Shots T S 6 105 238
79 43 2 Shots on Target S O 3 43 100
33% 30% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 23% 27%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dundee have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Inverness CT has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (8)
  • Inverness CT has the most clean sheets (10)
  • Inverness CT has the most clean sheets (5) away
  • Inverness CT have won significantly less corners away then 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 Dundee United 19 15 1 3 43 15 10 9 1 0 31 6 9 6 0 3 12 9 28 46
2 Inverness CT 19 10 2 7 27 22 10 6 1 3 17 10 9 4 1 4 10 12 5 32
3 Dundee 19 8 5 6 26 26 9 5 1 3 13 12 10 3 4 3 13 14 0 29
4 Ayr United 19 9 1 9 32 30 10 5 1 4 16 12 9 4 0 5 16 18 2 28
5 Dunfermline Athletic 19 7 4 8 29 26 10 5 2 3 19 13 9 2 2 5 10 13 3 25
6 Queen of the South 18 7 4 7 20 20 9 4 2 3 13 8 9 3 2 4 7 12 0 25
7 Arbroath 19 7 4 8 17 20 9 4 3 2 9 7 10 3 1 6 8 13 -3 25
8 Partick Thistle 19 6 3 10 26 35 9 2 1 6 10 16 10 4 2 4 16 19 -9 21
9 Greenock Morton 18 6 1 11 23 36 9 5 1 3 16 12 9 1 0 8 7 24 -13 19
10 Alloa Athletic 19 4 5 10 20 33 9 2 2 5 7 16 10 2 3 5 13 17 -13 17

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The Scottish Championship is the second level of the Scottish Professional Football League. Ten teams play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures in a season from August to May. The winner in the league table promotes to the Premiership and a playoff can promote one more team.