Championship duel: Close contest expected between Hamilton Academical and Inverness CT

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Tue 21.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Fountain of Youth Stadium (6078 seats)

Inverness CT have restored their energy after their 0-3-game against Hamilton Academical and are ready to go again when travelling to Hamilton Academical. Get all the details!

Insights:
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals (22) in Championship
  • Inverness CT have the most points from losing position (11) in Championship

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Inverness CT have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-2-5 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Hamilton Academical and Inverness CT.

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Hamilton Academical form and stats

Hamilton Academical's struggle is real here at Fountain of Youth Stadium with only 9 points collected from 11 Championship games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-6. When Hamilton Academical hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Hamilton Academical, Arbroath and Cove Rangers), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

It's back home for Hamilton Academical, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Inverness CT away with the result 3-0. Smith, Bolle and Tiehi found the net in that victory.

Before that match, a home loss in the Scottish Cup against Hearts.

It should be considered that a glance at the 10 most recent league games reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Hamilton Academical, as the Championship home game vs Queen's Park is only four days away.

With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Academical defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Inverness CT form and stats

As the visiting team in Championship matches, Inverness CT have produced an overall stat of 5-2-4 so far. When Inverness CT is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Arbroath, Inverness CT and Cove Rangers is teams we like to compare Hamilton Academical with.

The manager Dodds was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Tulloch Caledonian Stadium. Inverness CT suffered a 0-3 loss to Hamilton Academical (placed 10th). That defeat was their first after five consecutive league rounds winning points.

Ahead of that, the Scottish Cup victory away at Livingston.

Observe that 8 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Inverness manager Dodds as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Dundee.

Inverness CT have scored 16 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. Inverness CT have conceded 20 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent registered meeting involving both these participants is the Inverness CT - Hamilton Academical 0-3 played earlier this season. Data for the previous ten meetings between these two contenders are: six wins for Academical, two draws and two wins for Inverness CT. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

Inverness CTB. McKay
B. McKay
11 goals
Hamilton AcademicalA. Winter
A. Winter
4 goals
Inverness CTN. Shaw
N. Shaw
4 goals

Hamilton Academical missing players

Inverness CT missing players

Hamilton Academical Inverness CT
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 11 2 Played P 3 11 24
5 2 1 Won W 2 5 8
6 3 1 Drew D 1 2 8
13 6 0 Lost L 0 4 8
22 11 5 Scored S 5 16 34
40 18 4 Conceded C 1 20 35
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 91% 92%
67% 73% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 73% 67%
38% 27% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 64% 50%
29% 18% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 55% 42%
12% 18% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 36% 25%
38% 45% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 55% 54%
21% 18% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 36% 25%
42% 36% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 18% 29%
 
5.5 6.5 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 3.2 4.1
5.7 5.4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5 8 6.8
2 2.2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 1.8 1.5
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.3 7.4 4.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.1 7.4
3 3.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.4
30% 30% 83% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 46% 41%
 
9.8 10.7 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.3 11.5 9
4.2 4.5 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 5.3 4.2
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest matches over the total-line (9) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals (22) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Inverness CT have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Inverness CT have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Inverness CT have the most points from losing position (11) in Championship
  • 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 Queen's Park 25 13 5 7 49 34 12 7 3 2 23 13 13 6 2 5 26 21 15 44
2 Dundee 24 12 6 6 40 27 11 7 1 3 24 13 13 5 5 3 16 14 13 42
3 Ayr United 24 11 6 7 46 32 13 5 5 3 22 14 11 6 1 4 24 18 14 39
4 Greenock Morton 24 10 7 7 35 28 11 7 1 3 20 9 13 3 6 4 15 19 7 37
5 Partick Thistle 24 11 3 10 43 38 13 7 2 4 29 19 11 4 1 6 14 19 5 36
6 Raith Rovers 25 9 7 9 33 33 12 5 4 3 22 18 13 4 3 6 11 15 0 34
7 Inverness CT 24 8 8 8 34 35 13 3 6 4 18 15 11 5 2 4 16 20 -1 32
8 Cove Rangers 25 6 8 11 32 51 14 5 4 5 19 23 11 1 4 6 13 28 -19 26
9 Arbroath 25 4 10 11 24 40 12 1 4 7 8 20 13 3 6 4 16 20 -16 22
10 Hamilton Academical 24 5 6 13 22 40 11 2 3 6 11 18 13 3 3 7 11 22 -18 21

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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.