Game week two of the Championship season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's the Hamilton Academical - Greenock Morton preview:
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
5 - 3 - 3 with 19-8. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Greenock Morton when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Greenock Morton play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Last season, Hamilton Academical's league statistics were 6 wins, 9 draws and 15 losses, resulting in a 11th position in the Premiership. Over these 30 matches they scored 30 goals and conceded 50. Playing at home last season Hamilton Academical managed 4-3-9 (win-draw-lost) with 16 goals and 26 conceded. Academical are slowly digging their own grave here at Fountain of Youth Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Motherwell match.
Hamilton Academical drew their last game, 4-4 away at Raith Rovers (placed 4th). There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Raith Rovers as S. Want's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-4 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Albion Rovers (after extra-time, 6-5 on penalties) that ended 2-2.Greenock Morton form and stats
Let's have a look at how Greenock Morton performed last season in the Championship: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 6 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 45 and conceded 52 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 1 and lost 9 with 18/30 goals scored/conceded.
Greenock delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Dunfermline Athletic (placed 5th) in their previous match; a Championship game. The draw against Dunfermline Athletic came from a losing position. The Greenock manager G. MacPherson brought on L. McGrattan as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Clyde.Head 2 Head
Hamilton Academical-Greenock Morton H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Academical eight wins, Greenock Morton zero wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  L. McGrattan 1 goals | G. Oliver 1 goals |
Hamilton Academical missing players
Greenock Morton missing players
| Hamilton Academical | Greenock Morton | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 57% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| Hamilton Academical | Last season | Greenock Morton | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | ||
| 22 | 11 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | ||
| 34 | 13 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | ||
| 67 | 29 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 92% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 68% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | ||
| 42% | 26% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | ||
| 18% | 11% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | ||
| 16% | 5% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 47% | 37% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | ||
| 18% | 16% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | ||
| 42% | 53% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 4.3 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.7 | ||
| 5.9 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.7 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.4 | 8.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 13 | ||
| 2.7 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | ||
| 34% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 45% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Partick Thistle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Inverness CT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Hamilton Academical | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Raith Rovers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Dunfermline Athletic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Greenock Morton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Ayr United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Kilmarnock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Queen of the South | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Arbroath | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
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