Football tips: Dundee United vs St. Johnstone - predictions and betting guide

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 09.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tannadice Park (14223 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Dundee United are in the 6th position while the guesting St. Johnstone worry at 11th.

Insights:
  • Dundee United has the most matches under the total-line (13) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership

Dundee United and St. Johnstone should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Dundee United form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, Dundee United have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 11 games.

N. Clark was the last player to score a league goal for Dundee United and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Dundee United haven't scored in 180 minutes.

Dundee travelled for their previous game, a trip to Aberdeen that ended 0-0. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Celtic (0-3).

Dundee has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. 11 goals have been conceded.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

There's been little loot from St. Johnstone's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 11 away games in the Premiership. St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws.

Johnstone are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Ross County (placed 12th). Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Hamilton Academical.

Johnstone find the net regularly in their away games. 15 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. Johnstone have conceded 20 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Dundee United and St. Johnstone have met before this season: St. Johnstone - Dundee 0-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Dundee victories, four draws and four St. Johnstone wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
8 goals
St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
5 goals
St. JohnstoneD. Wotherspoon
D. Wotherspoon
3 goals

Dundee United missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Dundee United St. Johnstone
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
6 4 3 Won W 0 2 4
8 3 0 Drew D 0 4 7
8 4 0 Lost L 3 5 11
17 12 6 Scored S 2 15 19
27 11 2 Conceded C 6 20 31
82% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
68% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 91% 64%
41% 45% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 36%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 27% 14%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 18% 9%
45% 64% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 73% 45%
27% 18% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
45% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 27% 45%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.9 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
8.6 8.6 7.7 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 10.6 11.3
2.1 2.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3.4 2.6
37% 46% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 41% 33%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee United has the most matches under the total-line (13) in Premiership
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 22 20 2 0 57 5 11 11 0 0 33 1 11 9 2 0 24 4 52 62
2 Celtic 19 13 4 2 45 15 9 7 1 1 22 6 10 6 3 1 23 9 30 43
3 Aberdeen 20 11 6 3 27 18 11 7 2 2 18 12 9 4 4 1 9 6 9 39
4 Hibernian 22 10 6 6 30 23 11 3 5 3 13 16 11 7 1 3 17 7 7 36
5 Livingston 20 8 3 9 25 26 9 3 1 5 8 12 11 5 2 4 17 14 -1 27
6 Dundee United 22 6 8 8 17 27 11 4 3 4 12 11 11 2 5 4 5 16 -10 26
7 Motherwell 22 6 5 11 23 31 11 2 2 7 9 19 11 4 3 4 14 12 -8 23
8 St. Mirren 21 6 4 11 15 28 11 2 3 6 7 18 10 4 1 5 8 10 -13 22
9 Kilmarnock 22 6 3 13 22 29 11 3 2 6 13 15 11 3 1 7 9 14 -7 21
10 Hamilton Academical 22 6 3 13 24 45 11 2 2 7 9 20 11 4 1 6 15 25 -21 21
11 St. Johnstone 22 4 7 11 19 31 11 2 3 6 4 11 11 2 4 5 15 20 -12 19
12 Ross County 22 4 5 13 13 39 11 1 4 6 6 22 11 3 1 7 7 17 -26 17

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.