Dundee United favourites for feisty fight facing Inverness CT

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Fri 21.February
Match begins: 19:05 (UTC)
Venue: Tannadice Park (14223 seats)

A key match in Championship as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Dundee United in 1st position and Inverness CT placed 2nd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Dundee United 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 United form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Tannadice Park as Dundee United, who have the most scored goals (49) in Championship, have scored 32 goals to get 29 points from 12 games. The overall stats in the Championship are 9-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

L. Shankland was the last player to score a league goal for Dundee United and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Dundee United haven't scored in 180 minutes.

Dundee United shared the glory with Alloa Athletic in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Before that game, the home loss against Arbroath with the scoreline 0-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Dundee United have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost two.

Dundee United are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Tannadice Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 32 goals in 12 matches. From these home matches, Dundee United have conceded only 8 goals.

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Inverness CT form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Inverness CT had fun at their own home (Tannadice Park) last time out, beating Livingston 1-0. S. Welsh scored. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Alloa Athletic in the Championship.

We have checked recent matches where Inverness CT have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were two victories, zero draws and four defeats.

Inverness CT find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 12 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. 13 goals have been conceded by Inverness CT in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Inverness CT - Dundee United 0-3 played earlier this season. Dundee United-Inverness CT H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Dundee United six wins, Inverness CT two wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
7 goals
Inverness CTA. Doran
A. Doran
5 goals
Inverness CTJ. White
J. White
5 goals

Dundee United missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Dundee United Inverness CT
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 1 Played P 2 11 22
17 9 1 Won W 1 5 11
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
4 1 0 Lost L 1 5 8
49 32 4 Scored S 2 12 30
18 8 0 Conceded C 1 13 24
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 95%
75% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 73% 77%
50% 58% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 36% 41%
25% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 23%
17% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 9%
38% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 27% 32%
46% 42% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 55% 50%
21% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 27% 23%
 
7 6.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 4.1 5.6
4.7 4 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 7.1 5.8
1.2 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
298 157 8 Total Shots T S 21 127 269
120 68 5 Shots on Target S O 9 54 117
39% 47% 80% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 22% 26%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dundee United has the fewest conceded goals (18)
  • Dundee United has the fewest conceded goals (8) at home
  • Dundee United has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7)
  • Dundee United has the most points (29) at home
  • Dundee United has the most scored goals (32) at home
  • Dundee United has the most scored goals (49)
  • Dundee United has the most scored goals in the first half (24)
  • Dundee United has the most scored goals in the second half (25)
  • Dundee United has the the best goal difference (+24) at home
  • Dundee United has the the best goal difference (+31)
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dundee United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Dundee United have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Inverness CT have scored away.
  • Dundee United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Inverness CT has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9)
  • Inverness CT has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2)
  • 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 24 17 3 4 49 18 12 9 2 1 32 8 12 8 1 3 17 10 31 54
2 Inverness CT 22 11 3 8 30 24 11 6 2 3 18 11 11 5 1 5 12 13 6 36
3 Ayr United 22 11 2 9 35 31 11 6 1 4 17 12 11 5 1 5 18 19 4 35
4 Dundee 23 9 6 8 29 31 11 6 1 4 15 14 12 3 5 4 14 17 -2 33
5 Dunfermline Athletic 23 9 4 10 36 32 12 6 2 4 21 14 11 3 2 6 15 18 4 31
6 Arbroath 23 9 4 10 21 25 11 5 3 3 12 10 12 4 1 7 9 15 -4 31
7 Greenock Morton 23 8 4 11 32 43 12 6 3 3 22 17 11 2 1 8 10 26 -11 28
8 Queen of the South 22 7 5 10 26 29 12 4 2 6 17 15 10 3 3 4 9 14 -3 26
9 Alloa Athletic 24 6 8 10 27 37 12 3 4 5 10 17 12 3 4 5 17 20 -10 26
10 Partick Thistle 24 6 5 13 30 45 11 2 2 7 12 21 13 4 3 6 18 24 -15 23

Read more about Championship

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.