Motherwell look to Fir Park supporters for inspiration before Ross County match

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 02.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

With their 5 point advantage in the league standings, Motherwell regulars crave to see their team collect full points from this match vs Ross County.

Insights:
  • Motherwell is in the worst form (0-3-3)

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Motherwell and Ross County.

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Motherwell form and stats

The Premiership stats playing at home this season for Motherwell are 7-3-4 (wins-draws-losses).

An away draw last time out for Motherwell, facing Rangers in a game that ended 2-2. The striker Woolery outperformed all teammates in that fixture and got a match rating of 7.83 out of 10. Woolery scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.

In the match before that, Motherwell hosted Aberdeen and drew the game 1-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Motherwell have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost four.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Motherwell, as the Premiership home game vs Dundee is only three days away.

Motherwell has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Motherwell have conceded 20 goals.

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Ross County form and stats

There's been little loot from Ross County's travels as they have only collected 12 points from 14 away games in the Premiership. Ross County only have 3 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 3 draws.

Ross County had fun at their own home (Fir Park) last time out, beating St. Johnstone 3-1. Hungbo and Charles-Cook (2) scored. Midfield player Charles-Cook was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.94/10. Charles-Cook scored two goals.

Prior to that match, the County manager Mackay faced defeat when travelling to Hibernian and losing 0-2.

We have checked recent matches where Ross County have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those seven games were two victories, zero draws and five defeats.

After this away game Ross County return home for a Premiership game against St. Mirren. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Ross County have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 14 league away games 16 goals have been scored. County's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 23 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The most recent reported meeting featuring both these teams is the Ross County - Motherwell 3-1 played earlier this season. Tillson (Ross County) was sent off by the referee when these teams met earlier this season. Last ten meetings featuring these teams: Motherwell won five, Ross County triumphed in five and we saw zero draws. nine games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Ross CountyR. Charles-Cook
R. Charles-Cook
13 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
7 goals
Ross CountyB. Spittal
B. Spittal
4 goals

Motherwell missing players

Ross County missing players

Motherwell Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 14 4 Played P 4 14 28
9 7 3 Won W 0 3 7
8 3 1 Drew D 2 3 9
11 4 0 Lost L 2 8 12
30 18 6 Scored S 2 16 41
42 20 1 Conceded C 4 23 47
96% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 93% 93%
86% 79% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 86% 86%
39% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 64% 64%
21% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 36%
7% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 25%
50% 43% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 71%
25% 43% 75% Clean Sheets C S 25% 14% 14%
29% 21% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 36% 21%
 
4.1 4.1 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.2 4.1 4.2
6.5 5.5 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 7.3 6.4
2.6 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.9 2.6
4 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.1 9.8 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.6 10.2
3.2 3.1 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4 3.9
33% 42% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 10% 29% 38%
 
14.6 14.2 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 19 16.1 15.4
5.8 6.1 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 4.9 5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  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 28 21 4 3 60 17 13 11 2 0 31 4 15 10 2 3 29 13 43 67
2 Rangers 28 19 7 2 58 24 15 11 4 0 32 9 13 8 3 2 26 15 34 64
3 Hearts 28 13 7 8 38 29 14 8 3 3 24 12 14 5 4 5 14 17 9 46
4 Hibernian 28 9 8 11 28 30 15 6 4 5 16 14 13 3 4 6 12 16 -2 35
5 Dundee United 28 9 8 11 23 29 14 7 1 6 13 15 14 2 7 5 10 14 -6 35
6 Motherwell 28 9 8 11 30 42 14 7 3 4 18 20 14 2 5 7 12 22 -12 35
7 Livingston 28 9 7 12 30 34 13 4 3 6 13 15 15 5 4 6 17 19 -4 34
8 St. Mirren 27 7 12 8 26 37 14 3 7 4 11 13 13 4 5 4 15 24 -11 33
9 Aberdeen 28 8 8 12 33 35 14 6 4 4 20 15 14 2 4 8 13 20 -2 32
10 Ross County 28 7 9 12 41 47 14 4 6 4 25 24 14 3 3 8 16 23 -6 30
11 St. Johnstone 28 5 8 15 18 35 14 2 5 7 11 18 14 3 3 8 7 17 -17 23
12 Dundee 27 5 6 16 23 49 13 3 4 6 13 22 14 2 2 10 10 27 -26 21

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.