Dundee fights St. Mirren in Premiership battle

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 31.July
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park (11506 seats)

It's a new Premiership campaign and Dundee are eager to get started here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park. St. Mirren are coming to visit and this should be a thrilling season kickoff.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Dundee form and stats

It's the first season at a new level for Dundee as they were promoted from Championship last season. Happy days that were secured through 12 wins, 9 draws and 6 losses from 27 games. The team scored 25 goals at home last season and conceded 17. It will be interesting to see how they perform at this level.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Dundee have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won three, drawn one and lost one.

Dundee have prepared for this season with three friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these three matches are 2 victories, 1 draws and 0 losses. In these games, Dundee have scored 8 goals and conceded 2 times.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Let's have a look at how St. Mirren performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 9th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 8 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 24 and conceded 41 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 2 and lost 11 with 11/28 goals scored/conceded.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by St. Mirren in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Mirren, one draw and one defeat.

It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. St. Mirren have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats from one fixture.

Head 2 Head

Dundee-St. Mirren H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Dundee four wins, St. Mirren five wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

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Total First Half Second Half
Dundee St. Mirren
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Dundee Last season St. Mirren
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 13   Played P   19 38
12 8   Won W   7 11
9 3   Drew D   4 12
6 2   Lost L   8 15
49 25   Scored S   22 37
40 17   Conceded C   22 45
96% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   95% 89%
89% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   58% 63%
63% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   42% 37%
44% 46%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 13%
19% 23%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 8%
70% 77%   BTTS BTTS   42% 45%
26% 23%   Clean Sheets C S   26% 29%
7% 0%   Failed to Score F T   37% 37%
 
6.2 6.2   Corners for (avg) C F   5.3 5
4.3 4   Corners against (avg) C A   5.3 5
1.4 1.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.6
0 0   Red cards R C   3 5
 
10.3 10.2   Shots (avg) S (   10.5 11
4.2 4.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.5 3.3
43% 46%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 29%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Aberdeen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Celtic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hearts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Hibernian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Livingston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Motherwell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Ross County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 St. Johnstone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 St. Mirren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hearts 27 17 6 4 63 24 14 11 1 2 44 16 13 6 5 2 19 8 39 57
2 Dundee 27 12 9 6 49 40 13 8 3 2 25 17 14 4 6 4 24 23 9 45
3 Raith Rovers 27 12 7 8 45 36 13 6 3 4 24 18 14 6 4 4 21 18 9 43
4 Dunfermline Athletic 27 10 9 8 38 34 14 9 3 2 24 13 13 1 6 6 14 21 4 39
5 Inverness CT 27 8 12 7 36 31 13 3 8 2 16 13 14 5 4 5 20 18 5 36
6 Queen of the South 27 9 5 13 38 51 13 4 3 6 17 24 14 5 2 7 21 27 -13 32
7 Arbroath 27 7 9 11 28 34 14 5 6 3 16 11 13 2 3 8 12 23 -6 30
8 Ayr United 27 6 11 10 31 37 13 3 6 4 11 12 14 3 5 6 20 25 -6 29
9 Greenock Morton 27 6 11 10 22 33 14 4 5 5 14 18 13 2 6 5 8 15 -11 29
10 Alloa Athletic 27 5 7 15 30 60 14 3 5 6 18 29 13 2 2 9 12 31 -30 22

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Aberdeen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Celtic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hearts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Hibernian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Livingston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Motherwell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Ross County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 St. Johnstone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 St. Mirren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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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.