Hibernian vs Livingston match preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 22.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Easter Road Stadium (20421 seats)

Hibernian and Livingston have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the Premiership.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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Hibernian form and stats

5 victories, 6 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Hibernian have to build on here at Easter Road Stadium in the Premiership.

A strong away win for Hibernian against Kilmarnock the last match. Ahead of that match, Hibernian won a home game hosting Ross County (3-0).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Hibernian have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won one, drawn three and lost one.

Hibernian have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Easter Road Stadium with 24 goals in 13 league matches. Hibernian have conceded 18 in these home matches.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-4-8 (14 played). Livingston has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Livingston, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Rangers (placed 2nd). Before that, Livingston secured a home win against St. Mirren with the score 2-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Livingston in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Livingston, three draws and three defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Livingston's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 14 league matches away. Livingston have conceded 29 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Livingston - Hibernian 2-0 played earlier this season. Hibernian-Livingston H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hibernian five wins, Livingston two wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

HibernianC. Doidge
C. Doidge
10 goals
LivingstonL. Dykes
L. Dykes
10 goals
LivingstonS. Lawless
S. Lawless
8 goals

Hibernian missing players

Livingston missing players

Hibernian Livingston
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
27 13 2 Played P 2 14 27
9 5 0 Won W 0 2 10
9 6 2 Drew D 1 4 7
9 2 0 Lost L 1 8 10
39 24 4 Scored S 3 21 38
42 18 4 Conceded C 4 29 35
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
93% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 93% 78%
67% 85% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 79% 56%
30% 46% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 50% 30%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 21% 11%
63% 69% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 79% 48%
19% 23% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
22% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 21% 30%
 
4.6 5.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.3 4.6
6.3 4.8 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.5 4.5
1.8 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.9 1.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
253 148 31 Total Shots T S 20 108 226
112 65 15 Shots on Target S O 9 47 103
35% 37% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 45% 37%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian has the most dropped points from leading position (21)
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Livingston has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
  • 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 Celtic 27 24 1 2 79 16 13 12 0 1 42 6 14 12 1 1 37 10 63 73
2 Rangers 26 20 3 3 61 16 13 11 1 1 33 6 13 9 2 2 28 10 45 63
3 Aberdeen 27 11 8 8 34 31 13 6 3 4 19 16 14 5 5 4 15 15 3 41
4 Motherwell 26 13 2 11 35 34 13 6 1 6 18 20 13 7 1 5 17 14 1 41
5 Livingston 27 10 7 10 38 35 13 8 3 2 17 6 14 2 4 8 21 29 3 37
6 Hibernian 27 9 9 9 39 42 13 5 6 2 24 18 14 4 3 7 15 24 -3 36
7 Kilmarnock 27 9 5 13 28 35 14 6 4 4 18 13 13 3 1 9 10 22 -7 32
8 St. Johnstone 26 7 10 9 25 44 14 4 5 5 16 24 12 3 5 4 9 20 -19 31
9 Ross County 27 6 8 13 26 54 13 5 3 5 17 22 14 1 5 8 9 32 -28 26
10 St. Mirren 26 5 7 14 21 35 13 4 5 4 12 13 13 1 2 10 9 22 -14 22
11 Hamilton Academical 27 4 8 15 28 50 14 3 2 9 15 26 13 1 6 6 13 24 -22 20
12 Hearts 27 3 10 14 27 49 14 2 6 6 18 22 13 1 4 8 9 27 -22 19

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.