Open game expected at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park: Dundee vs St. Mirren preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 09.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park (11506 seats)

Dundee - St. Mirren: Premiership cellar sides desperate for points and greatness. Check out all the available statistics and information before the match!

Insights:
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals (50) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Dundee form and stats

Dundee's results here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park in the Premiership have been very modest with 3 victories, 5 draws and 6 defeats. When Dundee hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Aberdeen, Dundee and St. Johnstone), they have won 2 of 2 matches!

Dundee travelled for their previous game, a trip to Motherwell that ended 1-1. McMullan (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.4/10. McMullan scored one goal, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Before that, Dundee drew at home versus Hibernian.

This is expected to be a close game, with Dundee perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Dundee as a small favourite), we find ten games. Dundee has won four of these, drawn four and lost two.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Scottish Cup game versus Rangers in only four days. This game is also played here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Dundee here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (13 from 14 games). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Dundee have conceded 22 from these games.

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St. Mirren form and stats

As the visiting team matches, St. Mirren have produced an overall stat of 4-5-6 so far. It's a growing despair in St. Mirren as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

The attacking players of Mirren have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 282 minutes.

It might be tough going out on the road again for St. Mirren, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Ross County (placed 6th). Shaughnessy was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 6.84. The defender Shaughnessy won 7 of 11 duels.

Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Celtic's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by St. Mirren in our archives, and the results are: three wins for St. Mirren, five draws and two defeats.

St. Mirren have another match away in just three nights, a Scottish Cup game versus Hearts. A hard fixture list for them!

Mirren have conceded 27 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Here's what happened when the sides met earlier this season; St. Mirren - Dundee 0-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Dundee won three games, two matches ended with a draw and St. Mirren managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Top Goalscorers

St. MirrenE. Brophy
E. Brophy
6 goals
St. MirrenC. Ronan
C. Ronan
6 goals
DundeeD. Mullen
D. Mullen
5 goals

Dundee missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Dundee St. Mirren
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 2 Played P 2 15 29
5 3 2 Won W 0 4 7
8 5 0 Drew D 1 5 12
16 6 0 Lost L 1 6 10
24 13 3 Scored S 1 15 26
50 22 1 Conceded C 4 27 40
86% 79% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 93% 83%
62% 57% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 73% 66%
52% 57% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 47% 38%
31% 36% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 24%
17% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 14%
41% 36% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 47% 48%
24% 36% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 28%
48% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 41%
 
4.6 5.5 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 4.3 5
6.9 7.4 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 6.6 5.7
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.7
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 3 6
 
9.4 11 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14 10.3 10.4
3.3 4.1 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.6 3.5
25% 23% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 10% 28% 26%
 
14.9 14.3 13.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14 16.1 14.8
5.1 4.2 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.3 5.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dundee have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals (50) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals in the first half (27) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-26) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Premiership
  • Dundee have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 29 22 4 3 62 17 14 12 2 0 33 4 15 10 2 3 29 13 45 70
2 Rangers 30 21 7 2 60 24 16 12 4 0 33 9 14 9 3 2 27 15 36 70
3 Hearts 30 14 8 8 42 31 15 9 3 3 26 12 15 5 5 5 16 19 11 50
4 Hibernian 30 9 10 11 28 30 16 6 5 5 16 14 14 3 5 6 12 16 -2 37
5 Livingston 29 10 7 12 32 35 14 5 3 6 15 16 15 5 4 6 17 19 -3 37
6 Ross County 30 9 9 12 43 47 15 5 6 4 26 24 15 4 3 8 17 23 -4 36
7 Dundee United 30 9 9 12 26 33 15 7 2 6 15 17 15 2 7 6 11 16 -7 36
8 Motherwell 30 9 9 12 31 44 16 7 4 5 19 22 14 2 5 7 12 22 -13 36
9 St. Mirren 29 7 12 10 26 40 14 3 7 4 11 13 15 4 5 6 15 27 -14 33
10 Aberdeen 30 8 8 14 33 38 14 6 4 4 20 15 16 2 4 10 13 23 -5 32
11 St. Johnstone 30 5 9 16 18 36 15 2 5 8 11 19 15 3 4 8 7 17 -18 24
12 Dundee 29 5 8 16 24 50 14 3 5 6 13 22 15 2 3 10 11 28 -26 23

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.