National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Motherwell or St. Johnstone that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership. That game, against Hibernian, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for St. Johnstone.
Motherwell form and stats
Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.Motherwell manager S. Robinson and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus St. Johnstone in the Premiership. Before that game, the home loss against Celtic with the scoreline 1-4.
This is expected to be a close game, with Motherwell perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Motherwell as a small favourite), we find eight games. Motherwell has won five of these, drawn one and lost two.
Motherwell have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Motherwell scored 0 goals and let in 4 goals during these one game.
St. Johnstone form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Peterhead, Dundee United, Kelty Hearts and Brechin City in order to reach 2nd Round of League Cup. Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the group stage.Total League Cup statistics for St. Johnstone: 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Hibernian in their previous outing. The Premiership match ended in a draw 2-2. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Motherwell in the Premiership.
As mentioned above, St. Johnstone drew the match against Hibernian. Manager C. Davidson brought on David Wotherspoon to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by St. Johnstone in our archives, and the results are: one win for St. Johnstone, four draws and six defeats.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Motherwell five wins, one draw and St. Johnstone four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. May 4 goals |   M. O'Hara 3 goals |  D. Wotherspoon 3 goals |
Motherwell missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Motherwell | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 34 | 23 | Scored | S | 16 | 31 | ||
| 43 | 25 | Conceded | C | 16 | 26 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 56% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 36% | ||
| 40% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 44% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 288 | 163 | Total Shots | T S | 126 | 306 | ||
| 97 | 61 | Shots on Target | S O | 40 | 88 | ||
| 35% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 35% | ||