Dundee United - St. Johnstone: Premiership basement teams desperate for points and praise. Here are all the interesting data and tables before the match!
- Dundee United have the most conceded goals (20) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the most conceded goals (8) away in Premiership
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Dundee United form and stats
Three Premiership home games done for Dundee United, who are not happy collecting 0 points from these matches.
The club members are hoping that Dundee United will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the game against Rangers (placed 2nd). Midfield player McGrath got a match rating of 7.92 in that game, the max score being 10. McGrath served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.
0-0 away at Motherwell before that.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 14 games. Dundee has won 7 of these, drawn 1 and lost 6.
This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Dundee United have let the opposition score 13 times, an average of more than three per game.
St. Johnstone form and stats
St. Johnstone, who have the most conceded goals (8) away in Premiership, are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses). St. Johnstone has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Johnstone goalkeeper Remi Matthews is eager to challenge this, with his 189 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
St. Johnstone's last game was the home draw against Ross County (0-0). Gordon, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.65. Gordon won 9 of 14 duels.
Before that, St. Johnstone secured a home win against St. Mirren with the score 3-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by St. Johnstone in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for St. Johnstone, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Johnstone have another match that requires travelling in just four sleeps, a Premiership match versus Kilmarnock. A difficult timetable for the visitors!
St. Johnstone have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. The opposition has been scoring high and low on St. Johnstone's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 8 goals in 3 travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Dundee United victories, five draws and three St. Johnstone wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less. The games between these clubs have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Carey 2 goals |   L. Smith 1 goals |  D. Levitt 1 goals |
Dundee United missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Dundee United | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 20 | 13 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 57% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 29% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 4.7 | 5.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 5.6 | 7.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.3 | 6 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 3.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.4 | 10 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5.3 | 7.3 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 44% | 44% |
| 16.7 | 16.7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18 | 14.6 |
| 6.6 | 6.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 3.4 |
- All of St. Johnstone's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Dundee United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Dundee United have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Dundee United have lost all their home matches so far.
- Dundee United have the fewest points (0) at home in Premiership
- Dundee United have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most conceded goals (13) at home in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most conceded goals (20) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most conceded goals in the second half (13) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the the worst goal difference (-13) at home in Premiership
- Dundee United have the the worst goal difference (-17) in Premiership
- Dundee United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Dundee United is in the worst form (0-1-5)
- St. Johnstone have scored more than double the goals of Dundee United.
- St. Johnstone have the most conceded goals (8) away in Premiership
| 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 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 18 |
| 2 | Rangers | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Hearts | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | St. Mirren | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Livingston | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Ross County | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 5 |
| 11 | Kilmarnock | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | -9 | 4 |
| 12 | Dundee United | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -17 | 2 |
