Championship preview and numbers: Inverness CT - Queen of the South at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tulloch Caledonian Stadium (7750 seats)

Inverness CT - Queen of the South. 2nd position meets 9th position. Everything can happen - get a comprehensive match preview here!

Insights:
  • Inverness CT haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Queen of the South have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Championship

13-8-13 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Queen of the South when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 34 matches are 51-54 (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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Inverness CT form and stats

Inverness CT have collected 19 points from their Championship home games so far after 6-1-3.

Inverness CT drew their last game, also a home match. Raith Rovers (placed 4th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. The hometeam coach Dodds made a successful contribution in the game against Raith Rovers, bringing on McAlear who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.

Before that, Inverness played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Arbroath.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Inverness CT's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played eight games, won four matches, drawn zero and lost four.

Inverness CT are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 10 games. Inverness CT are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 10 matches.

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Queen of the South form and stats

There's been little loot from Queen of the South's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 9 away games in the Championship. Queen of the South only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Visiting Queen of the South has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Queen of the South have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 222 minutes ago. Todd was the goal scorer.

Queen of the South failed to get anything from their last game, a Championship home match vs Kilmarnock (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 0-2.

A 0-3 loss hosting Hamilton Academical before that.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Queen of the South when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing zero and winning two games.

Queen of the South are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 9 games (in the league).

Head 2 Head

Here's what happened when the squads played each other earlier this season; Queen of the South - Inverness 1-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Inverness CT victories, one draw and two Queen of the South wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Queen of the SouthL. Connelly
L. Connelly
6 goals
Inverness CTB. McKay
B. McKay
5 goals

Inverness CT missing players

Queen of the South missing players

Inverness CT Queen of the South
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 2 9 20
10 6 2 Won W 0 2 4
6 1 0 Drew D 1 2 5
4 3 1 Lost L 1 5 11
27 13 4 Scored S 1 12 19
15 8 2 Conceded C 5 18 31
85% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
55% 60% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 70%
40% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 50%
15% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 44% 20%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 15%
50% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 45%
45% 40% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 25%
20% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 22% 40%
 
4.6 5.1 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 5.2 5.2
4.2 4.1 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 7 6.2
1.6 1.4 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.4 8.5 8.7 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 7.6 9.1
3.6 4 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.8 3.4
38% 32% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 35% 28%
 
7 6.1 5.7 Shots against (avg) S A 19 14.3 12.9
2.5 2.8 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 5.1 4.3
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Inverness CT haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Queen of the South have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Queen of the South have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Championship
  • Queen of the South have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Championship
  • Queen of the South have the most matches over the total-line (10) in Championship
  • Queen of the South haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 21 10 8 3 33 15 10 4 5 1 15 7 11 6 3 2 18 8 18 38
2 Inverness CT 20 10 6 4 27 15 10 6 1 3 13 8 10 4 5 1 14 7 12 36
3 Kilmarnock 20 11 3 6 26 14 9 4 1 4 11 8 11 7 2 2 15 6 12 36
4 Raith Rovers 21 9 8 4 28 20 10 5 4 1 16 12 11 4 4 3 12 8 8 35
5 Partick Thistle 19 9 5 5 32 18 9 5 2 2 12 6 10 4 3 3 20 12 14 32
6 Hamilton Academical 21 6 6 9 24 36 11 3 2 6 10 21 10 3 4 3 14 15 -12 24
7 Ayr United 20 5 6 9 19 32 11 4 4 3 13 14 9 1 2 6 6 18 -13 21
8 Greenock Morton 20 3 8 9 22 31 10 1 5 4 15 19 10 2 3 5 7 12 -9 17
9 Queen of the South 20 4 5 11 19 31 11 2 3 6 7 13 9 2 2 5 12 18 -12 17
10 Dunfermline Athletic 20 2 9 9 18 36 10 1 5 4 10 18 10 1 4 5 8 18 -18 15

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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.