Possible nail-biting contest in Hamilton Academical - Greenock Morton game

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 14.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fountain of Youth Stadium (6078 seats)

Hamilton Academical hope to sell some tickets for this fixture despite that the season has been strenuous up to now with 11 points and a 10th position in the Championship table. Opponents Greenock Morton hold 5th place with 30 pts.

Insights:
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals (16) in Championship
  • Greenock Morton have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Championship

Greenock Morton play their home fixtures on grass, while this fixture will take part on artifical turf. Recent data for Greenock Morton when playing on artifical turf are 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats from 15 matches. They have created {12 goals} and conceded 16 times in these fixtures.

The hosts Academical saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Challenge Cup. This match was also played here at Fountain of Youth Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Greenock Morton have had more rest.

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Hamilton Academical form and stats

Hamilton Academical's struggle is real here at Fountain of Youth Stadium with only 5 points collected from 9 Championship games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-6. There's also a terrible streak running regardless of playing venue as Hamilton Academical have lost seven games in a row.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 460 minutes without scoring a league goal. Ecrepont (own goal) was the last player to find the net.

Hamilton Academical's previous fixture was a Challenge Cup game also played at their own arena, ending 3-2 versus Clyde. The home team are looking to continue in that form.

A Championship defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Ayr United.

Some information for those who like to bet on "both teams to score yes/no: This club have played 5 league rounds in a row with only one (or none) side finding the net.

Academical have conceded 17 from these games.

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Greenock Morton form and stats

3-5-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Greenock Morton, who have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Championship, in their Championship matches away.

There might be some fixture complaints from Greenock Morton as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 1-2 against Partick Thistle. That defeat stopped this club's string of league matches in a row without losing; ten games in total!

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Raith Rovers that ended 2-2.

Both teams to score? This team's latest statistics suggest that, having finished 5 league games in a row with one or more goals from each side.

Greenock Morton have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 13 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Greenock have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The latest reported meeting involving both these sides is the Greenock Morton - Hamilton Academical 5-0 played not long ago this season. Hamilton Academical-Greenock Morton H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hamilton Academical five wins, Greenock Morton two wins, three draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Greenock MortonR. Muirhead
R. Muirhead
7 goals
Greenock MortonG. Gillespie
G. Gillespie
5 goals

Hamilton Academical missing players

Greenock Morton missing players

Hamilton Academical Greenock Morton
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 9 1 Played P 4 11 19
2 1 0 Won W 1 3 8
5 2 0 Drew D 2 5 6
13 6 1 Lost L 1 3 5
16 9 1 Scored S 6 13 28
39 17 2 Conceded C 6 16 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 89%
70% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 74%
40% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 55% 58%
35% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 18% 21%
15% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 11%
40% 44% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 82% 63%
10% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 37%
50% 44% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 9% 11%
 
5.9 7.2 10 Corners for (avg) C F 4.2 5.1 4.8
5 3.9 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.7 5.8
1.9 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.9 2.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.8 7.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 8.8 8 7.1
3 3.2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3 3.2
27% 31% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 39% 47%
 
10.2 10.6 14 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 9.1 7.4
4.7 4.8 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 3.5 2.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Greenock Morton have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest points (5) at home in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals (16) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the the worst goal difference (-23) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Hamilton Academical is in the worst form (0-0-6)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Queen's Park 20 12 3 5 44 27 10 6 2 2 20 12 10 6 1 3 24 15 17 39
2 Ayr United 20 10 5 5 39 27 11 5 4 2 20 11 9 5 1 3 19 16 12 35
3 Dundee 20 10 5 5 33 25 9 5 1 3 18 13 11 5 4 2 15 12 8 35
4 Partick Thistle 21 10 3 8 42 36 11 7 2 2 29 17 10 3 1 6 13 19 6 33
5 Greenock Morton 19 8 6 5 28 21 8 5 1 2 15 5 11 3 5 3 13 16 7 30
6 Inverness CT 20 8 5 7 30 28 10 3 4 3 16 10 10 5 1 4 14 18 2 29
7 Raith Rovers 21 8 4 9 26 27 11 5 3 3 20 16 10 3 1 6 6 11 -1 28
8 Cove Rangers 20 5 6 9 28 40 11 5 2 4 16 15 9 0 4 5 12 25 -12 21
9 Arbroath 21 3 8 10 18 34 11 1 4 6 7 18 10 2 4 4 11 16 -16 17
10 Hamilton Academical 20 2 5 13 16 39 9 1 2 6 9 17 11 1 3 7 7 22 -23 11

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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.