National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Hibernian or Dundee that keep their silverware dream alive.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership. Thankfully the previous game, versus St. Johnstone, was also a home game here at Easter Road Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Hibernian form and stats
Hibernian have not come this way in the League Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Cove Rangers, Brora Rangers, Dundee and Forfar Athletic. Hibernian participated in League Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.4W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the League Cup for Hibernian. Hibernian have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Hibernian, who played 2-2 against St. Johnstone. That match was also played at this venue (Easter Road Stadium). In the match before that, Hibernian hosted Celtic and drew the Premiership game 2-2.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Hibernian home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.
Dundee form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Cove Rangers, Brora Rangers and Hibernian in order to reach 2nd Round of League Cup. Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.The Championship season is young and Dundee have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the League Cup stats, they have 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
There might be some fixture complaints from Dundee as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Championship match against Ayr United (0-2). It was a League Cup defeat before that one as the away game against Hibernian wasn't a success with a 1-4 loss.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Dundee played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
Dundee has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. There are big problems for the Dundee defense as they have conceded 11 goals in 3 away games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Hibernian - Dundee 4-1. Hibernian-Dundee H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hibernian six wins, Dundee one win, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Nisbet 8 goals |  M. Boyle 3 goals |  C. Doidge 3 goals |
Hibernian missing players
Dundee missing players
| Hibernian | Dundee | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 42 | 25 | Scored | S | 15 | 29 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Conceded | C | 23 | 36 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 32% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 275 | 140 | Total Shots | T S | 99 | 219 | ||
| 101 | 55 | Shots on Target | S O | 38 | 82 | ||
| 42% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 33% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dunfermline Athletic | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | Hearts | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 3 | Raith Rovers | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| 4 | Ayr United | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Inverness CT | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Greenock Morton | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 7 | Dundee | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 5 |
| 8 | Queen of the South | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | Arbroath | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 2 |
| 10 | Alloa Athletic | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -9 | 1 |