National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Livingston or Ross County that keep their silverware dream alive.
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 Livingston and Ross County.
Livingston form and stats
Last season, Livingston's League Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.5W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the League Cup for Livingston.
Ahead of that match, Livingston won a home game hosting Dundee United (2-0).
The victory against St. Johnstone came after Scott Robinson's winning goal. The Livingston manager G. Holt was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 55th minute.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Livingston handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, zero draws and five defeats.
Ross County form and stats
Ross County 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 4 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away. It's all red in the travel logs of Ross County, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team. Recent form does not give County much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Livingston will be a tough nut to crack.
A loss against Rangers was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.
County are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, one draw and three defeats. From a total of seven matches.
A quick return to home after this game, as Ross County are hosting Hamilton Academical in the Premiership only three days away.
Ross County played one friendly in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these one match County scored 0 and conceded 2 goals.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Livingston victories, two draws and five Ross County wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Pittman 4 goals |  A. Forrest 3 goals |  J. Guthrie 2 goals |
Livingston missing players
Ross County missing players
| Livingston | Ross County | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 8 | 13 | ||
| 40 | 20 | Scored | S | 15 | 25 | ||
| 32 | 16 | Conceded | C | 25 | 44 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 40% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.6 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9.4 | 10.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 8.6 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.4 | ||
| 44% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 44% | ||