Premiership preview and statistics: Livingston - Ross County at Tony Macaroni Arena

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 09.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

With their 10 point advantage in the league table, Livingston fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Ross County.

Insights:
  • Livingston has the most matches over the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the fewest scored goals (13) in Premiership

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

Livingston have played 9 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-5 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.

A strong away win for Livingston against Hibernian the last match, as Jon Guthrie, Joshua Mullin and Scott Robinson were on target. In the game before, an away victory match versus Kilmarnock with a 2-1 scoreline.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Aberdeen are coming to town in four days.

Livingston aren't scoring a lot here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, with only 8 goals from 9 games. Livingston's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County, who have the fewest scored goals (13) in Premiership, have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 3-1-7 (11 played).

There were no winners in County's previous match, a Premiership home game that ended 1-1 vs St. Johnstone (placed 11th). Prior to that result County won their away game at Hibernian. The scoreline was 2-0.

The attacking power of County when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 11 league matches away. County struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 17 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Ross County - Livingston 1-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Livingston wins - draws - Ross County wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonJ. Guthrie
J. Guthrie
5 goals
LivingstonS. Pittman
S. Pittman
4 goals
LivingstonS. Robinson
S. Robinson
3 goals

Livingston missing players

Ross County missing players

Livingston Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 3 Played P 3 11 22
8 3 1 Won W 0 3 4
3 1 0 Drew D 1 1 5
9 5 2 Lost L 2 7 13
25 8 4 Scored S 2 7 13
26 12 5 Conceded C 7 17 39
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
80% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 77%
50% 33% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 27% 36%
20% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 18% 23%
10% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
50% 33% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 27% 32%
30% 44% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 23%
25% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 45% 50%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 2 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.7 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 5
 
9.8 9.9 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 14.7 8.5 8.8
3.3 2.8 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 1.8 2.2
38% 32% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 35% 27%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston has the fewest matches under the total-line (9) in Premiership
  • Livingston has the most matches over the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the fewest scored goals (13) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (25) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-26) in Premiership
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County 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 Rangers 22 20 2 0 57 5 11 11 0 0 33 1 11 9 2 0 24 4 52 62
2 Celtic 19 13 4 2 45 15 9 7 1 1 22 6 10 6 3 1 23 9 30 43
3 Aberdeen 20 11 6 3 27 18 11 7 2 2 18 12 9 4 4 1 9 6 9 39
4 Hibernian 22 10 6 6 30 23 11 3 5 3 13 16 11 7 1 3 17 7 7 36
5 Livingston 20 8 3 9 25 26 9 3 1 5 8 12 11 5 2 4 17 14 -1 27
6 Dundee United 22 6 8 8 17 27 11 4 3 4 12 11 11 2 5 4 5 16 -10 26
7 Motherwell 22 6 5 11 23 31 11 2 2 7 9 19 11 4 3 4 14 12 -8 23
8 St. Mirren 21 6 4 11 15 28 11 2 3 6 7 18 10 4 1 5 8 10 -13 22
9 Kilmarnock 22 6 3 13 22 29 11 3 2 6 13 15 11 3 1 7 9 14 -7 21
10 Hamilton Academical 22 6 3 13 24 45 11 2 2 7 9 20 11 4 1 6 15 25 -21 21
11 St. Johnstone 22 4 7 11 19 31 11 2 3 6 4 11 11 2 4 5 15 20 -12 19
12 Ross County 22 4 5 13 13 39 11 1 4 6 6 22 11 3 1 7 7 17 -26 17

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.