Football betting preview: Hamilton Academical with moderate expectations before welcoming Livingston

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 23.December
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Bermuda National Stadium (8500 seats)

Hamilton Academical hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 17 points and a 11th position in the Premiership table. Visiting Livingston holds 7th place with 18 pts.

Insights:
  • Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals (40) in Premiership
  • Livingston has the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premiership

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Premiership match only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Ross County.

This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Livingston's home stadium. The visitors last nine games on artifical turf have ended in 3 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses.

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Hamilton Academical form and stats

Hamilton Academical's struggle is real here at Bermuda National Stadium with only 5 points collected from 8 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-5.

Academical enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Ross County's place. The match ended 2-0 with Scott Martin and Ross Callachan scoring. Preceding that match was a defeat to Hibernian (0-4).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Academical as they have a new game in only three days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. Celtic are visiting.

Academical aren't scoring a lot here at Bermuda National Stadium in the league, with only 6 goals from 8 games. Hamilton Academical have conceded 15 from these games.

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Livingston form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Livingston so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).

Livingston are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the League Cup against Ross County (placed 12th). Prior to that result Livingston won their away game at St. Johnstone in the Premiership. The scoreline was 2-1.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Premiership trip to Kilmarnock.

Livingston have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. Livingston have conceded 13 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Livingston - Academical 1-2. Last ten meetings between the teams: Academical won three, Livingston won three and four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Hamilton AcademicalR. Callachan
R. Callachan
4 goals
LivingstonS. Pittman
S. Pittman
4 goals
Hamilton AcademicalH. Odofin
H. Odofin
3 goals

Hamilton Academical missing players

Livingston missing players

Hamilton Academical Livingston
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 8 2 Played P 2 8 17
5 1 0 Won W 1 2 5
2 2 1 Drew D 1 2 3
11 5 1 Lost L 0 4 9
21 6 1 Scored S 3 10 18
40 15 2 Conceded C 2 13 25
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
78% 62% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 76%
56% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 62% 47%
33% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 24%
28% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 12%
50% 38% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 53%
22% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 24%
28% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.2 1.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.3 8.6 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.8 9.4
3 3.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.4 3.1
35% 22% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 37% 35%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hamilton Academical has the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership
  • Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals (40) in Premiership
  • Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Premiership
  • Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Livingston has the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premiership
  • Livingston have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Livingston 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 18 16 2 0 50 5 9 9 0 0 31 1 9 7 2 0 19 4 45 50
2 Celtic 15 10 4 1 37 14 7 5 1 1 17 6 8 5 3 0 20 8 23 34
3 Hibernian 18 9 6 3 29 17 8 2 5 1 12 11 10 7 1 2 17 6 12 33
4 Aberdeen 16 9 4 3 23 17 9 6 1 2 16 11 7 3 3 1 7 6 6 31
5 Motherwell 18 6 3 9 22 25 9 2 1 6 9 17 9 4 2 3 13 8 -3 21
6 Dundee United 18 5 6 7 14 23 9 3 2 4 9 10 9 2 4 3 5 13 -9 21
7 Livingston 17 5 3 9 18 25 9 3 1 5 8 12 8 2 2 4 10 13 -7 18
8 St. Mirren 17 5 3 9 12 24 10 2 3 5 7 16 7 3 0 4 5 8 -12 18
9 Kilmarnock 17 5 2 10 18 22 8 3 1 4 11 10 9 2 1 6 7 12 -4 17
10 St. Johnstone 18 4 5 9 17 25 9 2 2 5 4 8 9 2 3 4 13 17 -8 17
11 Hamilton Academical 18 5 2 11 21 40 8 1 2 5 6 15 10 4 0 6 15 25 -19 17
12 Ross County 18 3 4 11 10 34 9 1 3 5 5 19 9 2 1 6 5 15 -24 13

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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.