Premiership preview: Can Livingston edge out victory against Ross County?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Premiership: What this game might not have in elegance it should pay back in pace and attitude. Let's go: Livingston - Ross County!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Premiership

The visiting Ross County played their last game only four days ago, a Premiership match.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have played 4 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). Hopes of three in a row are alive for Livingston after consecutive victories at their own ground.

No payout for Livingston in their previous match, an away game at St. Mirren that ended in defeat 1-2. The penalty miss from Kelly in the defeat against St. Mirren was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen. Midfield player Holt got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, the max score being 10. Holt had 39 successful passes (of 46 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Kilmarnock in a game that was won 1-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Livingston handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Livingston has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. From these home matches, Livingston have conceded only 3 goals.

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Ross County form and stats

The visitors are W0-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.

Akio was the last player to score for the away team. Ross County haven't scored a league goal in the last 270 minutes.

This match can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Motherwell with 0-5 on the scoreboard. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Motherwell was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind. Baldwin, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.01. Baldwin hit one key pass and won 15 of 16 duels.

A 0-2 loss hosting Hibernian before that.

County are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

Goals are few and far between in Ross County's away league games. Only 1 goal from 4 travels. Ross County struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Livingston have won at least one point in the last 8 matches (5-3-0) versus Ross County.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
3 goals
LivingstonJ. Nouble
J. Nouble
2 goals
LivingstonA. Obileye
A. Obileye
1 goals

Livingston missing players

Ross County missing players

Livingston Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 4 9
4 3 1 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 1 0 Lost L 1 3 6
7 5 1 Scored S 1 1 4
11 3 0 Conceded C 2 7 18
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 89%
50% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 67%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 44%
12% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 33%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
38% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 25% 33%
38% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 22%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 75% 56%
 
3.2 2.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.8 3.1
6.8 7.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.5 7.6
2.4 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 2.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.6 9.8 10 Shots (avg) S ( 12 7.5 7.9
2.1 2.8 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 1.5 2
41% 45% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 17% 22%
 
12.6 12.8 3 Shots against (avg) S A 15 17 17.1
3.4 3.2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.5 5.1
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Livingston have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ross County have scored away.
  • Livingston have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Premiership
  • Ross County have yet to win a 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 8 7 0 1 27 4 4 4 0 0 10 1 4 3 0 1 17 3 23 21
2 Rangers 8 6 1 1 20 8 4 4 0 0 12 1 4 2 1 1 8 7 12 19
3 St. Mirren 8 5 0 3 10 9 5 4 0 1 6 2 3 1 0 2 4 7 1 15
4 Hibernian 8 4 2 2 11 7 4 2 2 0 7 4 4 2 0 2 4 3 4 14
5 Aberdeen 8 4 1 3 18 11 4 3 0 1 15 5 4 1 1 2 3 6 7 13
6 Motherwell 9 4 1 4 13 11 4 1 1 2 2 5 5 3 0 2 11 6 2 13
7 Hearts 8 4 1 3 13 12 4 3 0 1 9 8 4 1 1 2 4 4 1 13
8 Livingston 8 4 0 4 7 11 4 3 0 1 5 3 4 1 0 3 2 8 -4 12
9 St. Johnstone 8 3 1 4 9 11 4 1 1 2 3 2 4 2 0 2 6 9 -2 10
10 Ross County 9 1 2 6 4 18 5 1 1 3 3 11 4 0 1 3 1 7 -14 5
11 Kilmarnock 8 1 1 6 4 16 3 1 1 1 3 7 5 0 0 5 1 9 -12 4
12 Dundee United 8 0 2 6 4 22 4 0 0 4 1 15 4 0 2 2 3 7 -18 2

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.