After league round 1 it's Motherwell - Hibernian 1-0 in points. Who will conquer the points in this second Premiership fixture of the season?
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa Conference League game only three days ago.
Motherwell form and stats
Motherwell travelled for their previous game, a trip to Dundee that ended 1-1. Spittal (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.32/10. Spittal hit four key passes.
A win at home before that one, as expected. The team were big favourites against East Fife and won 3-0. This is expected to be a close game, with Motherwell perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Motherwell as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Motherwell has won 8 of these, drawn 1 and lost 3.
Hibernian form and stats
The followers enjoyed Hibernian's previous fixture versus Luzern, a Europa Conference League win (3-1) played at home. Newell got a match rating of 8.34 in that game, top player of the team. Newell scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A loss against St. Mirren was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Hibernian playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 1 Hibernian win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Hibernian manager Johnson as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Luzern.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - three - five (Motherwell wins - draws - Hibernian wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Bair 1 goals |   C. Doidge 1 goals |  A. Le Fondre 1 goals |
Motherwell missing players
Hibernian missing players
| Motherwell | Hibernian | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
