Football preview: Hamilton Academical vs Partick Thistle - predictions and statistics

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 08.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fountain of Youth Stadium (6078 seats)

Which team will go home victorious when Partick Thistle go to play Hamilton Academical? In this game guide you'll learn all the relevant information and data necessary to enjoy the game more.

Insights:
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals (34) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most clean sheets (11) in Championship

This ground has artifical turf, which is not Partick Thistle's familiar surface at their own pitch. When appearing on artifical turf Partick Thistle have performed like this: Played 21 matches with the output 10 wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats with the goal production 35-19 (scored/conceded).

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Hamilton Academical form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Championship this season. Hamilton Academical have only managed 3 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses from their games here at Fountain of Youth Stadium.

A good away victory last time out for Hamilton Academical, who won 3-0 against Queen of the South (placed 8th).

Preceding that match was the home game against Kilmarnock that was lost 2-3.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Hamilton Academical here at Fountain of Youth Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 10 games). Academical have conceded 19 from these games.

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Partick Thistle form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Partick Thistle playing as the away team in the Championship this season.

Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Raith Rovers in their previous game. Late drama in the previous game, when Turner scored the winning goal six minutes into stoppage time to defeat Raith Rovers.

A 0-2 loss hosting Arbroath before that.

The Partick manager McCall has got the team scoring on the road, with 18 away goals in 9 league matches. Partick Thistle have conceded 10 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other before in this season, with the result Partick Thistle - Academical 1-0 logged in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Academical victory, four draws and five Partick Thistle wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Partick ThistleB. Graham
B. Graham
8 goals
Partick ThistleZ. Rudden
Z. Rudden
7 goals
AcademicalA. Ryan
A. Ryan
5 goals

Hamilton Academical missing players

Partick Thistle missing players

Hamilton Academical Partick Thistle
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 1 9 18
6 3 0 Won W 1 4 9
5 1 0 Drew D 0 2 4
9 6 2 Lost L 0 3 5
22 8 2 Scored S 1 18 30
34 19 5 Conceded C 0 10 16
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 78%
75% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 61%
50% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 50%
20% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 56% 39%
15% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 17%
50% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 28%
20% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 56% 61%
35% 40% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 33%
 
5.8 5.4 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.8 5.8
5.1 5.2 6 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5 4.8
2 2.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 1.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10 10.2 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12 11.1 10.7
3.8 3.7 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.7 4.4
29% 22% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 43% 38%
 
8.6 9.5 11 Shots against (avg) S A 9 9.9 8.9
3.6 3.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.2 2.9
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals (34) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical have the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in Championship
  • Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Partick Thistle have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Partick Thistle have scored at least twice as many goals away as Hamilton Academical have scored home.
  • Partick Thistle have the most clean sheets (11) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle 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 Arbroath 20 10 8 2 33 14 10 4 5 1 15 7 10 6 3 1 18 7 19 38
2 Inverness CT 19 10 5 4 26 14 9 6 0 3 12 7 10 4 5 1 14 7 12 35
3 Raith Rovers 20 9 7 4 27 19 10 5 4 1 16 12 10 4 3 3 11 7 8 34
4 Kilmarnock 19 10 3 6 24 14 9 4 1 4 11 8 10 6 2 2 13 6 10 33
5 Partick Thistle 18 9 4 5 30 16 9 5 2 2 12 6 9 4 2 3 18 10 14 31
6 Hamilton Academical 20 6 5 9 22 34 10 3 1 6 8 19 10 3 4 3 14 15 -12 23
7 Ayr United 19 4 6 9 18 32 10 3 4 3 12 14 9 1 2 6 6 18 -14 18
8 Queen of the South 19 4 5 10 19 29 10 2 3 5 7 11 9 2 2 5 12 18 -10 17
9 Dunfermline Athletic 19 2 9 8 18 31 10 1 5 4 10 18 9 1 4 4 8 13 -13 15
10 Greenock Morton 19 2 8 9 17 31 9 0 5 4 10 19 10 2 3 5 7 12 -14 14

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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.