Premiership match prediction: Little separates Livingston and Motherwell in quality

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Mon 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Get set for Premiership and Livingston - Motherwell. In this preview and news article you'll get stats, previous results, analysis, tendencies and stories!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Premiership
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

This looks to be an engaging fixture with lots of fun and excitement as both participants are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's start!

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Livingston form and stats

5 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Livingston have to build on here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the Premiership.

The home fans saw a 1-1 draw versus St. Mirren last time out and are looking for a win here. Midfield player Kelly got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, the max score being 10. Kelly hit one key pass.

Heartbreak before that as Livingston lost 0-4 at Hibernian's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Livingston perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Livingston as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Livingston has won 2 of these, drawn 6 and lost 2.

Livingston has scored {9 goals-1} so far and conceded {9 goals-2} from 9 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Motherwell form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Motherwell are travelling again after losing away to Rangers in their previous match (0-3). McGinn was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.83. The defender McGinn won 6 of 6 duels.

A draw for Motherwell before that, at their own venue hosting Kilmarnock (2-2).

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Motherwell in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Motherwell, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 9 of this team's 12 most recent league matches have ended with three goals or more.

Motherwell are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 10 away games so far. 14 goals have been conceded by Motherwell in these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Motherwell have managed a sequence of 7 consecutive matches without losing (5-2-0) when facing Livingston.

These sides met each other before this campaign: Motherwell - Livingston 1-0.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
8 goals
LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
4 goals
LivingstonS. Kelly
S. Kelly
3 goals

Livingston missing players

Motherwell missing players

Livingston Motherwell
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 10 18
7 5 1 Won W 1 4 5
3 1 0 Drew D 1 1 3
8 3 1 Lost L 1 5 10
17 9 1 Scored S 2 15 22
27 9 1 Conceded C 2 14 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
67% 56% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 70% 72%
50% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 67%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 22%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 30% 17%
50% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 56%
22% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 28%
28% 22% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 20% 22%
 
3.7 4.3 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 5.9 5.4
6.9 5.6 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6.3 6.6 5.3
2.3 2.1 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.8 2.5
5 1 0 Red cards R C 2 2 2
 
9.7 10.7 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 11.3 11.9
2.6 2.9 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.6 3.4
36% 35% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 42% 36%
 
16 14.3 4 Shots against (avg) S A 12 13.8 11.4
4.7 4 0.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.9 3.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Premiership
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Motherwell 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 19 18 0 1 61 15 9 9 0 0 28 7 10 9 0 1 33 8 46 54
2 Rangers 19 14 3 2 44 18 10 9 1 0 28 5 9 5 2 2 16 13 26 45
3 Hearts 18 8 4 6 32 30 8 5 1 2 19 16 10 3 3 4 13 14 2 28
4 Aberdeen 19 8 1 10 33 32 9 6 0 3 24 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 1 25
5 St. Mirren 17 7 4 6 21 25 10 6 3 1 14 7 7 1 1 5 7 18 -4 25
6 St. Johnstone 19 7 3 9 24 29 9 3 2 4 10 9 10 4 1 5 14 20 -5 24
7 Livingston 18 7 3 8 17 27 9 5 1 3 9 9 9 2 2 5 8 18 -10 24
8 Hibernian 19 7 2 10 24 30 10 5 2 3 16 12 9 2 0 7 8 18 -6 23
9 Kilmarnock 19 5 4 10 17 33 9 5 2 2 13 14 10 0 2 8 4 19 -16 19
10 Motherwell 18 5 3 10 22 27 8 1 2 5 7 13 10 4 1 5 15 14 -5 18
11 Dundee United 18 4 4 10 22 33 10 4 1 5 15 18 8 0 3 5 7 15 -11 16
12 Ross County 19 4 3 12 14 32 10 2 2 6 9 19 9 2 1 6 5 13 -18 15

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.