Premiership match prediction: Little separates Motherwell and Livingston in quality

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 20.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

This should be another entertaining encounter at Fir Park in the Premiership. Motherwell is in 3rd place and receive Livingston in 4th spot. Read about the match here!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Premiership

Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their last game. Let's aim for an animated game!

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Motherwell form and stats

0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Motherwell have to build on here at Fir Park in the Premiership.

A good away victory last time out for Motherwell, who won 3-2 against Aberdeen (placed 7th). Spittal (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.41/10. Spittal scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and had 20 successful passes (of 24 total).

Ahead of that match, Motherwell lost 1-2 at home to St. Johnstone.

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 11 games. Motherwell has won 5 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.

At Fir Park, Motherwell has the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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Livingston form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.

Livingston go into this game after a win, the home game against Hibernian that ended 2-1. Defender Obileye was the best team player with a rating of 8.12. Obileye scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 2 of 3 duels.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Dundee United with the score of 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Livingston in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Livingston, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

1 goal so far away for Livingston, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

Motherwell have managed a streak of 6 consecutive games without losing (4-2-0) when playing Livingston.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
2 goals
LivingstonJ. Nouble
J. Nouble
2 goals
MotherwellC. Slattery
C. Slattery
1 goals

Motherwell missing players

Livingston missing players

Motherwell Livingston
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
3 1 0 Played P 0 1 3
2 0 0 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
5 1 0 Scored S 0 1 4
4 2 0 Conceded C 0 0 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 67%
67% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
67% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 67%
33% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 2.3
6.7 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 9 10.3
2.3 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 8.7
2.3 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3 4
71% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 33%
 
9.7 4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12 18
2.7 2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 5.7
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Premiership

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.