National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Dundee or Motherwell that keep their silverware dream alive.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Dundee form and stats
Dundee have reached this League Cup stage through battling and winning against Ross County, Brora Rangers, Montrose and Forfar Athletic. Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.On the other hand, in the League Cup, Dundee has performed like this (both home and away): 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
The fans are hoping that Dundee will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-6 away loss in the Premiership game against Celtic. The goalie Adam Legzdins was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.03 out of ten. Legzdins stopped the opponent with eight saves. Dundee were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Dundee's goalkeeper Adam Legzdins was extremely busy against Celtic, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning eight saves.
In the match before that, Dundee hosted St. Mirren and drew the Premiership game 2-2.It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Dundee, who have participated in three training matches. Dundee have won 2 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 0 games.
Motherwell form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Queen of the South, Queen's Park, Airdrieonians and Annan Athletic in order to reach 2nd round of League Cup. Motherwell was sent out of League Cup in the 2nd round last season.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the League Cup stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away. Two points from the last two away games for Motherwell, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Motherwell has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to St. Johnstone for a Premiership game that ended a draw (1-1). Midfielder Callum Slattery was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.65. Slattery hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times. As mentioned above, Motherwell drew the match against St. Johnstone. Manager G. Alexander brought on Tony Watt to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
A 2-3 loss hosting Hibernian before that.It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Motherwell have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 0 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats from two fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the former ten meetings between these two sides are: zero wins for Dundee, one draw and nine wins for Motherwell. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  J. Cummings 1 goals |   B. Mugabi 1 goals |  T. Watt 1 goals |
Dundee missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Dundee | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 9 | ||
| 50 | 27 | Scored | S | 17 | 35 | ||
| 26 | 16 | Conceded | C | 14 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.4 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 10.1 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.6 | ||
| 42% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 38% | ||