Another action-packed fixture in Premiership as Motherwell welcome Dundee United

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 03.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Season ticket holders at Fir Park haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Motherwell languishing in the 10th position so far. The guesting Dundee United will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Dundee United is in the worst form (0-3-3)

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premiership game only four days ago.

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Motherwell form and stats

With 2 Premiership wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Motherwell are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Motherwell enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Ross County's place. The match ended 2-1 with Devante Cole and Bevis Mugabi scoring. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Aberdeen (0-2).

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

Motherwell are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Celtic awaits in three days.

Motherwell aren't scoring a lot here at Fir Park in the league, with only 10 goals from 12 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 20 goals have been conceded.

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Dundee United form and stats

Dundee United, who have the fewest scored goals (5) away in Premiership, have only collected 12 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-6-4 (12 played). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in ten away games in a row.

Dundee's previous game was their home loss versus Hibernian (0-2). Preceding that, the 1-5 home loss versus St. Mirren.

We have checked recent matches where Dundee have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were two victories, three draws and one defeat.

Dundee United has another fixture away, a Premiership game, against Ross County in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

Goals are few and far between in Dundee's away league games. Only 5 goals from 12 travels. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 16 goals have been conceded by Dundee in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Dundee United - Motherwell 1-1, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Motherwell victories, one draw and six Dundee United wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
8 goals
MotherwellD. Cole
D. Cole
4 goals
MotherwellM. O'Hara
M. O'Hara
3 goals

Motherwell missing players

Dundee United missing players

Motherwell Dundee United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 4 12 26
5 2 1 Won W 1 2 6
7 3 1 Drew D 2 6 10
12 7 1 Lost L 1 4 10
21 10 3 Scored S 3 5 20
36 20 3 Conceded C 6 16 36
92% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 67% 81%
71% 58% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 58% 69%
42% 42% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 42%
21% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 15%
8% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
38% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 25% 46%
25% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 42% 27%
46% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 67% 46%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.7 1.7
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.2 10.8 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 8.2 8.3
2.9 3 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 1.8 2.1
30% 28% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 24% 37%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee United has the fewest scored goals (5) away in Premiership
  • Dundee United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Dundee United is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  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 26 23 3 0 66 7 12 12 0 0 38 1 14 11 3 0 28 6 59 72
2 Celtic 24 14 7 3 51 20 13 8 3 2 26 9 11 6 4 1 25 11 31 49
3 Aberdeen 25 12 8 5 31 24 13 8 2 3 21 14 12 4 6 2 10 10 7 44
4 Hibernian 26 12 7 7 35 25 13 4 5 4 15 17 13 8 2 3 20 8 10 43
5 Livingston 25 10 6 9 32 29 13 5 3 5 15 15 12 5 3 4 17 14 3 36
6 St. Mirren 23 8 5 10 23 26 10 2 4 4 8 13 13 6 1 6 15 13 -3 29
7 Dundee United 26 6 10 10 20 36 14 4 4 6 15 20 12 2 6 4 5 16 -16 28
8 St. Johnstone 26 6 9 11 25 35 13 3 4 6 5 11 13 3 5 5 20 24 -10 27
9 Kilmarnock 25 7 3 15 26 33 12 4 2 6 17 15 13 3 1 9 9 18 -7 24
10 Motherwell 24 5 7 12 21 36 12 2 3 7 10 20 12 3 4 5 11 16 -15 22
11 Ross County 26 5 5 16 19 50 13 2 4 7 11 25 13 3 1 9 8 25 -31 20
12 Hamilton Academical 24 5 4 15 21 49 12 2 3 7 9 20 12 3 1 8 12 29 -28 19

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.