This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, Livingston holding 10th place and St. Mirren lying 11th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Livingston form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Livingston have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at Tony Macaroni Arena. The Livingston manager G. Holt might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Livingston's previous game was a League Cup match also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Airdrieonians. The home side are looking to build on that result. In the preceding match a 4-0 victory visiting Stenhousemuir.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Livingston matches with similar probabilities have ended with four wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from four games).
Livingston aren't scoring a lot here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, with only 6 goals from 7 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Livingston defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
St. Mirren form and stats
1-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for St. Mirren, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premiership, in their Premiership matches away. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on J. Goodwin, the Mirren manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
St. Mirren play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Queen's Park. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Greenock Morton (after extra-time, 6-5 on penalties).
Mirren made it very difficult for themselves in their last game, J. Shaughnessy receiving a red card in the 49th minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, St. Mirren won the match 1-0! J. Obika came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Queen's Park last time out, making the manager J. Goodwin feel like a tactical genius.
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Mirren playing away, we found four games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and four home wins.
The attacking power of St. Mirren when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. In the opposite end, Mirren have conceded 8 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Livingston and St. Mirren have met before this season: St. Mirren - Livingston 1-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Livingston won five games, two matches ended with a draw and St. Mirren has three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  S. Pittman 3 goals |  A. Forrest 3 goals |  J. Guthrie 2 goals |
Livingston missing players
St. Mirren missing players
| Livingston | St. Mirren | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 79% | 71% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 60% | 55% |
| 50% | 43% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 45% |
| 29% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 36% |
| 21% | 43% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 20% | 27% |
| 29% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 45% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.6 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 134 | 71 | 27 | Total Shots | T S | 19 | 52 | 114 |
| 41 | 18 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 15 | 28 |
| 34% | 33% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 20% | 21% |
- Livingston has the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premiership
- Livingston has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
- Livingston have scored more than double the goals of St. Mirren.
- St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Premiership
- St. Mirren has the fewest points (3) away in Premiership
- St. Mirren has the fewest scored goals (3) away in Premiership
- St. Mirren has the fewest scored goals (6) in Premiership
- St. Mirren has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
- St. Mirren have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Mirren 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 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 34 | 38 |
| 2 | Celtic | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 21 | 29 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 26 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 24 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 17 |
| 6 | Kilmarnock | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 7 | Motherwell | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -3 | 14 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -6 | 14 |
| 9 | Ross County | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -14 | 13 |
| 10 | Livingston | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 8 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 23 | -20 | 7 |