Game week two of the Premiership season and the squads have taken their learnings from the first game. Here's our Dundee United - Livingston preview:
Dundee United have less rest than Livingston in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Europa Conference League game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus AZ, was also a home game here at Tannadice Park. The away team is better rested.
Dundee United form and stats
Last season, Dundee United's league results were 18 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses, leading to 1st spot in the Premiership. During these 28 matches they scored 52 goals and gave away 22. Performing as the host team in the previous season Dundee United managed 10-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 35 goals and 10 conceded.
Dundee's previous match was a Europa Conference League game also played at home, finishing 1-0 vs AZ. The home team hope to to repeat that performance. The goalie Birighitti was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.03 out of ten. Birighitti topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that, Dundee United played out a Premiership draw 1-1 when visiting Kilmarnock.This is expected to be a close game, with Dundee United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Dundee United as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Dundee has won 7 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.
Dundee United are traveling soon after this match as the Europa Conference League match at AZ awaits in four days.
Livingston form and stats
Livingston failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Rangers (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 1-2. Nouble, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.45. Nouble scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Livingston playing away and similar expectations, we found 9 relevant matches. Results were 4 Livingston wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dundee United two wins, two draws and Livingston six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Levitt 1 goals |   J. Nouble 1 goals |
Dundee United missing players
Livingston missing players
| Dundee United | Livingston | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 18 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 6 |
