Football betting preview: Livingston vs Motherwell

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 21.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Motherwell have journeyed here for an entertaining battle against the home team Livingston. Get smart on the fixture with this in-depth Premiership preview!

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Livingston form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, Livingston have managed 0 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 1 games.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Livingston, who played 1-1 against St. Mirren (after extra-time, 4-3 on penalties). That match was also played at this venue (Tony Macaroni Arena).

Ahead of that match, Livingston lost 1-2 at home to Aberdeen.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Livingston have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found seven games) they have won four times, drawn zero and lost three.

Livingston has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Motherwell form and stats

Playing away, Motherwell have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premiership this season.

Two away games in a row for Motherwell, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Dundee in the League Cup.

A 1-1 draw at St. Johnstone's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Motherwell have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those nine games were four victories, two draws and three defeats.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Motherwell has managed 1 goal and let in 1 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Livingston victories, three draws and five Motherwell wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
1 goals
MotherwellB. Mugabi
B. Mugabi
1 goals
MotherwellT. Watt
T. Watt
1 goals

Livingston missing players

Motherwell missing players

Livingston Motherwell
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 1 0 Scored S 0 1 3
5 2 0 Conceded C 0 1 4
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3.5 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6 4
4.5 2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 8 6
5 5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 3.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.5 12 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 9
0.5 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 5
100% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 30%
Livingston Last season Motherwell
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
12 6   Won W   6 12
9 4   Drew D   6 9
17 9   Lost L   7 17
42 20   Scored S   19 39
54 25   Conceded C   24 55
89% 89%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   89% 92%
79% 74%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   74% 71%
53% 47%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   42% 47%
21% 21%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 24%
8% 5%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   5% 11%
50% 47%   BTTS BTTS   42% 42%
29% 32%   Clean Sheets C S   37% 32%
32% 32%   Failed to Score F T   32% 34%
 
4.3 4.5   Corners for (avg) C F   5.1 4.9
3.9 4.3   Corners against (avg) C A   5.4 5.4
1.7 2.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.3 1.6
1 0   Red cards R C   2 4
 
9.2 9.7   Shots (avg) S (   10.9 10.5
3.1 2.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.9 2.9
36% 36%   Goal Efficiency G E   34% 35%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hibernian 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 4 6
2 Aberdeen 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
3 Hearts 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
4 Celtic 2 1 0 1 7 2 1 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 5 3
5 Rangers 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
6 Dundee United 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
7 St. Johnstone 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
8 Motherwell 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
9 St. Mirren 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 -1 1
10 Ross County 2 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 1
11 Dundee 2 0 1 1 2 8 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 6 -6 1
12 Livingston 2 0 0 2 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 -4 0

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.