Can Livingston defeat Motherwell in Tony Macaroni Arena clash?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 09.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

There has been no shortage of loss and gain for these two participants so far, holding positions near the middle of the Premiership table. Here's the Livingston - Motherwell latest:

Insights:
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Premiership

Both participants have had plentiful rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated fixture!

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have collected 18 points from their Premiership home games so far after 5-3-7. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Livingston to get some points in this home game.

Livingston are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 214 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Shinnie).

In their previous game, the manager Martindale led his Livingston to a defeat away at St. Johnstone. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Tony Macaroni Arena. Midfielder Holt was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.43 (out of ten) in that game. Holt had 41 successful passes (of 49 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Hearts.

Livingston are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 15 games. Livingston's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 19 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Motherwell form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Motherwell so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-8 (win-draw-lose).

Impressive finishing from Goss, Cornelius and Shields secured the home win 4-2 against St. Mirren in their previous game. Shields, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.4. Shields scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 1-2 defeat away at St. Johnstone before that.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Motherwell as they have only managed to score 13 times from 15 away games in the league. Motherwell's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 24 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Livingston and Motherwell have met before this season: Motherwell - Livingston 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Livingston one win, two draws and Motherwell seven victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
11 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
8 goals
LivingstonA. Forrest
A. Forrest
4 goals

Livingston missing players

Motherwell missing players

Livingston Motherwell
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
32 15 2 Played P 2 15 32
10 5 1 Won W 0 2 10
7 3 1 Drew D 1 5 9
15 7 0 Lost L 1 8 13
33 16 2 Scored S 2 13 36
41 19 1 Conceded C 4 24 48
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
72% 73% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 93% 84%
44% 47% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 41%
16% 13% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 13% 22%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
47% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 53%
25% 20% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 22%
34% 13% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 28%
 
3.9 4.6 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.3 4.3
5.5 5 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 7.3 6.1
2.7 3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.5 2.3
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 4
 
9.9 11.4 12 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.3 10.5
3.1 3.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.5 3.5
33% 32% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 25% 32%
 
13.1 12.3 13 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 14.5 13.8
4.2 3.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 5.2 5.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Motherwell have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Premiership
  • 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 31 24 4 3 69 18 15 13 2 0 37 4 16 11 2 3 32 14 51 76
2 Rangers 31 22 7 2 62 25 16 12 4 0 33 9 15 10 3 2 29 16 37 73
3 Hearts 32 15 9 8 45 32 16 10 3 3 28 12 16 5 6 5 17 20 13 54
4 Dundee United 32 10 10 12 29 35 15 7 2 6 15 17 17 3 8 6 14 18 -6 40
5 Motherwell 32 10 9 13 36 48 17 8 4 5 23 24 15 2 5 8 13 24 -12 39
6 Hibernian 32 9 11 12 30 34 17 6 6 5 17 15 15 3 5 7 13 19 -4 38
7 Ross County 32 9 10 13 44 52 16 5 7 4 27 25 16 4 3 9 17 27 -8 37
8 Livingston 32 10 7 15 33 41 15 5 3 7 16 19 17 5 4 8 17 22 -8 37
9 Aberdeen 32 9 9 14 38 41 15 7 4 4 23 16 17 2 5 10 15 25 -3 36
10 St. Mirren 32 8 12 12 30 46 15 3 7 5 12 15 17 5 5 7 18 31 -16 36
11 St. Johnstone 32 7 9 16 21 37 17 4 5 8 14 20 15 3 4 8 7 17 -16 30
12 Dundee 32 5 9 18 27 55 17 3 6 8 16 27 15 2 3 10 11 28 -28 24

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.