Championship match prediction: Little separates Greenock Morton and Dundee in quality

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Date: Sat 01.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cappielow Park (11589 seats)

Greenock Morton hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 26 points and a 7th position in the Championship table. Visiting Dundee holds 4th place with 29 pts.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Greenock Morton form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Greenock Morton are 6-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).

Greenock Morton drew their last game, 1-1 away at Dundee United (placed 1st). Heartbreak before that as Greenock Morton lost 0-3 at St. Johnstone's place.

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 Greenock Morton have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won 2 Drawn 3 Lost 1.

A decent goal production from Greenock Morton in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 10 league matches. Greenock Morton's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Dundee form and stats

The visitors are W3-D4-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.

G. Dorrans was the last player to score for the away team. Dundee haven't scored a league goal in the last 220 minutes.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Dundee, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-2 versus Dunfermline Athletic (placed 5th). A loss against Motherwell was the result prior to that, in a Scottish Cup home game.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Dundee playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were 4 Dundee wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Dundee find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 13 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. 16 goals have been conceded by Dundee in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Dundee - Greenock Morton 2-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 0 - 7 (Greenock Morton wins - draws - Dundee wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Greenock MortonR. McHugh
R. McHugh
6 goals
DundeeK. Hemmings
K. Hemmings
6 goals
DundeeD. Johnson
D. Johnson
5 goals

Greenock Morton missing players

Dundee missing players

Greenock Morton Dundee
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 3 11 21
8 6 2 Won W 2 3 8
2 1 1 Drew D 1 4 5
11 3 0 Lost L 0 4 8
29 19 5 Scored S 5 13 26
40 14 3 Conceded C 1 16 30
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
81% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 73% 76%
67% 70% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 36% 43%
38% 40% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 19%
33% 40% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 10%
67% 80% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 55% 52%
14% 20% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 18% 24%
19% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 27% 29%
 
5.5 6.8 5.7 Corners For (avg) C F 6.3 4.7 5.6
5.2 4.9 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 2.7 6 5.2
1.5 1.2 1.7 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2 1.8
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
160 86 26 Total Shots T S 40 102 218
59 31 11 Shots on Target S O 20 37 82
47% 58% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 35% 32%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dundee haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Greenock Morton has the most conceded goals in the second half (24)
  • Greenock Morton have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Greenock Morton have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Greenock Morton have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Greenock Morton 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 Dundee United 22 17 2 3 49 17 11 9 2 0 32 7 11 8 0 3 17 10 32 53
2 Inverness CT 21 11 2 8 29 23 10 6 1 3 17 10 11 5 1 5 12 13 6 35
3 Ayr United 21 11 1 9 34 30 11 6 1 4 17 12 10 5 0 5 17 18 4 34
4 Dundee 21 8 5 8 26 30 10 5 1 4 13 14 11 3 4 4 13 16 -4 29
5 Dunfermline Athletic 22 8 4 10 33 30 12 6 2 4 21 14 10 2 2 6 12 16 3 28
6 Arbroath 22 8 4 10 20 25 11 5 3 3 12 10 11 3 1 7 8 15 -5 28
7 Greenock Morton 21 8 2 11 29 40 10 6 1 3 19 14 11 2 1 8 10 26 -11 26
8 Queen of the South 20 7 4 9 22 24 11 4 2 5 15 12 9 3 2 4 7 12 -2 25
9 Alloa Athletic 22 6 6 10 26 36 11 3 3 5 10 17 11 3 3 5 16 19 -10 24
10 Partick Thistle 22 6 4 12 29 42 10 2 1 7 11 20 12 4 3 5 18 22 -13 22

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.