Motherwell vs Hibernian betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 08.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Premiership: Motherwell are 4 points behind Hibernian, but fully intend to go all in. Let's get started!

Insights:
  • Motherwell have the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership
  • Hibernian have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

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.

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Motherwell form and stats

With 1 Premiership win, 2 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Motherwell are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Motherwell travelled for their previous game, a trip to Livingston that ended 1-1. Kelly, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.83 out of 10 in that game. Kelly saved two (!) penalties.

Prior to that, an away loss at Rangers.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Motherwell here at Fir Park in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 8 games). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.

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Hibernian form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hibernian so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-8 (win-draw-lose). A depressing six defeats in a row for Hibernian in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Ross County.

The attacking players of Hibernian have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 220 minutes.

Hibernian are travelling again after losing away to Hearts in their previous match (0-3). Newell got a match rating of 7.43 in that game, top player of the team. Newell hit four key passes.

Preceding that, the 0-4 home loss versus Celtic.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this club's 10 latest league matches have ended with three goals or more.

The attacking power of Hibernian when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. For Hibernian, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Hibernian have won or drawn the last 6 games (3-3-0) versus Motherwell.

The latest archived result involving both these sides is the Hibernian - Motherwell 1-0 played earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
9 goals
HibernianM. Boyle
M. Boyle
5 goals
HibernianJ. Campbell
J. Campbell
4 goals

Motherwell missing players

Hibernian missing players

Motherwell Hibernian
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 8 2 Played P 3 10 20
5 1 1 Won W 1 2 7
4 2 0 Drew D 0 0 2
10 5 1 Lost L 2 8 11
23 7 2 Scored S 2 8 24
28 13 2 Conceded C 2 21 33
95% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
74% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 60% 70%
63% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 55%
21% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 35%
16% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 30% 15%
58% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
26% 25% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 20% 30%
21% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 40% 30%
 
5.4 4.9 3 Corners for (avg) C F 8.7 7.3 6.5
5.3 3.6 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.4 4.6
2.5 2.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.2 2.3
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
12.1 12.6 7.5 Shots (avg) S ( 19.7 15.9 16.2
3.4 3.1 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.5 5
36% 28% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 18% 24%
 
11.4 8.4 4 Shots against (avg) S A 8.3 11.6 10.4
3.7 3 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.3 4.2 3.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell have the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership
  • Motherwell have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Premiership

  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 20 18 1 1 63 17 9 9 0 0 28 7 11 9 1 1 35 10 46 55
2 Rangers 20 14 4 2 46 20 11 9 2 0 30 7 9 5 2 2 16 13 26 46
3 Hearts 19 9 4 6 35 30 9 6 1 2 22 16 10 3 3 4 13 14 5 31
4 Aberdeen 20 8 2 10 33 32 10 6 1 3 24 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 1 26
5 St. Mirren 18 7 5 6 21 25 10 6 3 1 14 7 8 1 2 5 7 18 -4 26
6 Livingston 19 7 4 8 18 28 10 5 2 3 10 10 9 2 2 5 8 18 -10 25
7 St. Johnstone 20 7 3 10 24 30 10 3 2 5 10 10 10 4 1 5 14 20 -6 24
8 Hibernian 20 7 2 11 24 33 10 5 2 3 16 12 10 2 0 8 8 21 -9 23
9 Kilmarnock 20 5 5 10 17 33 10 5 3 2 13 14 10 0 2 8 4 19 -16 20
10 Motherwell 19 5 4 10 23 28 8 1 2 5 7 13 11 4 2 5 16 15 -5 19
11 Dundee United 19 5 4 10 23 33 10 4 1 5 15 18 9 1 3 5 8 15 -10 19
12 Ross County 20 4 4 12 14 32 10 2 2 6 9 19 10 2 2 6 5 13 -18 16

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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.