Fir Park: Motherwell vs Livingston Premiership news and facts

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Motherwell are flying at 4th, while Livingston are bringing up the rear 8 points behind in the table. Will they crop the gap?

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

Both teams have had adequate rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's trust this will be an energetic game!

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Motherwell form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, Motherwell have managed 6 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 10 games. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Motherwell, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

A nice win for Motherwell last time playing, versus St. Johnstone. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Veen and Cornelius scoring for the victors. Goalkeeper Kelly got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.43 out of ten. Kelly topped it up with a clean sheet.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Celtic (0-1).

The manager Alexander will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Ross County in only three days.

The Motherwell fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 15 goals in 10 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Livingston form and stats

The visitors are W3-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.

Livingston's last game was the home draw against Ross County (1-1). Obileye was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.05. The defender Obileye scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 5 of 5 duels.

Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Dundee United.

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

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 13 goals have been conceded by Livingston in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved played each other earlier on this season: Livingston - Motherwell 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Motherwell six wins, two draws and Livingston two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellT. Watt
T. Watt
9 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
5 goals
LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
4 goals

Motherwell missing players

Livingston missing players

Motherwell Livingston
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 10 3 Played P 3 10 19
8 6 2 Won W 0 3 5
4 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
7 3 1 Lost L 2 4 9
23 15 5 Scored S 0 8 15
26 14 3 Conceded C 6 13 24
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 89%
84% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 63%
37% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 37%
16% 30% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 11%
11% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 5%
47% 40% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 37%
32% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 40% 32%
21% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 42%
 
4.2 3.5 2 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 2.5 3.5
6.8 5.8 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 6.2 5.6
2.7 2.6 4.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.4 2.5
3 3 1 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
9.4 9 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 2 6.2 8.5
3.4 3.2 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1.9 2.5
36% 47% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 42% 32%
 
16.2 16.4 13.3 Shots against (avg) S A 15.3 15.6 14.3
6.2 6.6 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.7 4.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Livingston have won significantly less corners away then at 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 19 15 3 1 41 14 10 7 3 0 20 7 9 8 0 1 21 7 27 48
2 Celtic 18 13 2 3 39 11 9 7 2 0 22 2 9 6 0 3 17 9 28 41
3 Hearts 19 9 6 4 27 17 9 5 3 1 16 7 10 4 3 3 11 10 10 33
4 Motherwell 19 8 4 7 23 26 10 6 1 3 15 14 9 2 3 4 8 12 -3 28
5 Dundee United 19 7 4 8 15 20 9 5 0 4 6 8 10 2 4 4 9 12 -5 25
6 Aberdeen 18 7 3 8 23 22 9 5 1 3 13 8 9 2 2 5 10 14 1 24
7 Hibernian 18 6 5 7 20 21 9 4 2 3 11 10 9 2 3 4 9 11 -1 23
8 Livingston 19 5 5 9 15 24 9 2 2 5 7 11 10 3 3 4 8 13 -9 20
9 St. Mirren 18 3 9 6 18 29 9 1 5 3 7 9 9 2 4 3 11 20 -11 18
10 Dundee 19 4 4 11 17 35 10 3 3 4 12 16 9 1 1 7 5 19 -18 16
11 Ross County 18 3 6 9 24 32 9 2 3 4 14 17 9 1 3 5 10 15 -8 15
12 St. Johnstone 18 3 5 10 9 20 9 1 3 5 7 12 9 2 2 5 2 8 -11 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.