Premiership match information and stats: Motherwell against Hibernian

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 26.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

The league standings tells us that 2 points split the two competitors in this Premiership fixture. Motherwell carry both the points- and home advantage.

Insights:
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Motherwell have less rest than Hibernian in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Scottish Cup game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Greenock Morton, was also a home game here at Fir Park. The away team is better rested.

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Motherwell form and stats

22 points is a decent return from 11 Premiership games here at Fir Park for Motherwell. The data says 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. Ever since the Rangers game Motherwell has been unbeatable here at Fir Park producing five straight wins.

In the game before, an away victory in the Premiership match versus Ross County with a 1-3 scoreline. 1-3 away at Ross County before that. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Ross County (1-3).

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

A decent goal production from Motherwell in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. 15 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

Prior to that result Hibernian won their away game at Celtic in the Premiership. The scoreline was 0-2. A 0-2 draw at Celtic's stadium before that. It was a Premiership defeat before that one as the away game against Celtic wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

After this away game Hibernian return home for a Premiership game against Livingston. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Hibernian are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 11 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Hibernian have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The squads have faced each other previously this season, with the result Hibernian - Motherwell 1-1 entered in the official records. Last ten meetings between these contenders: Motherwell won two, Hibernian were winners in four and we saw four draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
7 goals
HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
5 goals
MotherwellB. Mugabi
B. Mugabi
2 goals

Motherwell missing players

Hibernian missing players

Motherwell Hibernian
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 3 11 21
9 7 3 Won W 0 3 8
4 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
8 3 0 Lost L 2 5 8
26 17 5 Scored S 1 12 24
30 15 1 Conceded C 4 14 24
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 91% 95%
86% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 64% 62%
43% 45% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 45% 43%
19% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 24%
10% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 5%
52% 45% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 55% 43%
29% 45% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 9% 29%
19% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 45% 33%
 
4.3 3.6 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 4.5 5.4
6.5 5.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 10.3 5.3 5.1
2.6 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2
3 3 1 Red cards R C 1 6 6
 
9.7 9.2 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 11.1 11.4
3.4 3.4 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3.7 3.6
37% 46% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 29% 32%
 
15.3 15.6 11.7 Shots against (avg) S A 19.3 11.1 10.6
6 6.4 6.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.2 3.9
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 21 16 4 1 44 15 11 8 3 0 22 7 10 8 1 1 22 8 29 52
2 Celtic 21 15 3 3 44 12 10 8 2 0 24 2 11 7 1 3 20 10 32 48
3 Hearts 21 11 6 4 31 18 11 7 3 1 20 8 10 4 3 3 11 10 13 39
4 Motherwell 21 9 4 8 26 30 11 7 1 3 17 15 10 2 3 5 9 15 -4 31
5 Hibernian 21 8 5 8 24 24 10 5 2 3 12 10 11 3 3 5 12 14 0 29
6 Aberdeen 21 8 4 9 26 25 11 6 2 3 16 10 10 2 2 6 10 15 1 28
7 Dundee United 21 7 4 10 17 25 11 5 0 6 8 13 10 2 4 4 9 12 -8 25
8 Livingston 21 6 5 10 18 26 10 3 2 5 9 11 11 3 3 5 9 15 -8 23
9 St. Mirren 21 4 10 7 20 32 10 1 6 3 7 9 11 3 4 4 13 23 -12 22
10 Ross County 21 5 6 10 30 36 10 3 3 4 17 18 11 2 3 6 13 18 -6 21
11 Dundee 21 4 4 13 18 39 10 3 3 4 12 16 11 1 1 9 6 23 -21 16
12 St. Johnstone 21 3 5 13 11 27 11 1 3 7 9 17 10 2 2 6 2 10 -16 14

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.