With their 10 point advantage in the league table, Dundee United fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Hamilton Academical.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
This stadium uses grass, unlike Hamilton Academical's home stadium. The visitors last 37 games on grass have ended in 8 wins, 4 draws and 25 losses.
Dundee United form and stats
Dundee United have collected 8 points from their Premiership home games so far after 2-2-3.
The home team returns to Tannadice Park after being equal after 90 minutes with St. Johnstone (after extra-time, 3-4 on penalties) (placed 8th) on their last time out; the League Cup game ended 0-0. Before that, Dundee United played out a Premiership draw 0-0 when visiting St. Mirren.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Dundee's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won three matches, drawn zero and lost zero.
Dundee have scored 6 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Dundee's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Hamilton Academical, who have the most conceded goals (33) in Premiership, have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-0-5 (7 played). It's looking increasingly bleak for Hamilton Academical who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Dundee United was the last time a defeat was avoided. A depressing four defeats in a row for Hamilton Academical in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Livingston.
Academical are travelling again after losing away to Stranraer in their previous match (1-2). Preceding that game, the 0-8 loss visiting Rangers's place.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Academical when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing four times, drawing zero and winning zero games.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Aberdeen in just four days.
Academical have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. There are big problems for the Academical defense as they have conceded 23 goals in 7 away games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Hamilton Academical - Dundee United 1-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Dundee won two games, four matches ended with a draw and Hamilton Academical has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  N. Clark 5 goals |   H. Odofin 3 goals |  R. Hughes 2 goals |
Dundee United missing players
Hamilton Academical missing players
| Dundee United | Hamilton Academical | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 10 | 6 | 5 | Scored | S | 2 | 9 | 13 |
| 17 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 23 | 33 |
| 79% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 86% | 75% |
| 43% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 86% | 58% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 57% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 57% | 42% |
| 43% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 71% | 58% |
| 29% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 14% | 8% |
| 50% | 43% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 131 | 65 | 25 | Total Shots | T S | 23 | 58 | 105 |
| 28 | 16 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 20 | 37 |
| 36% | 38% | 56% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 45% | 35% |
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals (23) away in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals (33) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the the worst goal difference (-14) away in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the the worst goal difference (-20) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hamilton Academical have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rangers | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 34 | 38 |
| 2 | Celtic | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 21 | 29 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 26 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 24 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 17 |
| 6 | Kilmarnock | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 7 | Motherwell | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -3 | 14 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -6 | 14 |
| 9 | Ross County | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -14 | 13 |
| 10 | Livingston | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 8 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 23 | -20 | 7 |
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