Motherwell favourites for feisty fight facing Ross County

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 14.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Life has been a bit difficult for Motherwell so far, and you could say the same about Ross County. These weathered teams would do anything for some much needed points here.

Insights:
  • Motherwell have the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals (14) in Premiership

Both sides have had ample time to rest since their previous competitive action. Let's have faith in that this will be an in-your-face game!

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Motherwell form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Motherwell, who have the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership, have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Fir Park. Motherwell are slowly digging their own grave here at Fir Park with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts.

The Motherwell club members got no joy from their last match, also played here at Fir Park: A 2-3 defeat against Hibernian (placed 7th). The talented striker Spittal bested all the other footballers in that game and got a match rating of 8.01 out of 10. Spittal hit three key passes.

1-1 away at Livingston before that.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Motherwell handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 10 latest league games highlights that 8 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.

With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Motherwell defense is not exactly impregnable. 16 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-2-6 (10 played).

Ross County aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 428 league minutes without a goal. White was the last player to find the net.

Ross County failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Livingston (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 0-2. Randall, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.03. Randall hit one key pass and won 5 of 10 duels.

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Aberdeen.

We have checked recent matches where Ross County have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 7 games were 2 victories, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Goals are few and far between in County's away league games. Only {5 goals} from 10 travels. Ross County have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date past history involving both these teams is the Ross County - Motherwell 0-5 played not long ago this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Motherwell victories, zero draws and four Ross County wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
9 goals
Ross CountyJ. White
J. White
4 goals
MotherwellC. Slattery
C. Slattery
3 goals

Motherwell missing players

Ross County missing players

Motherwell Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 9 2 Played P 2 10 21
5 1 0 Won W 0 2 4
4 2 2 Drew D 0 2 4
11 6 0 Lost L 2 6 13
25 9 2 Scored S 0 5 14
31 16 2 Conceded C 4 13 34
95% 89% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 90%
75% 78% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 67%
65% 78% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 43%
25% 22% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 19%
20% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
60% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 38%
25% 22% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 24%
20% 22% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 48%
 
5.3 4.9 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 2.6 3
5.1 3.4 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 6.3 6.6
2.5 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 3
 
12.1 12.6 17 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 6.8 7.7
3.4 3.1 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 1.8 2.3
37% 32% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 29%
 
11.2 8.4 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 17.8 16.5
3.7 3.1 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4 4.6
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell have the fewest points (5) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals (14) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the most matches under the total-line (12) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-20) in Premiership
  • Ross County is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 21 19 1 1 65 17 10 10 0 0 30 7 11 9 1 1 35 10 48 58
2 Rangers 21 15 4 2 48 20 11 9 2 0 30 7 10 6 2 2 18 13 28 49
3 Hearts 20 9 5 6 36 31 9 6 1 2 22 16 11 3 4 4 14 15 5 32
4 Aberdeen 21 9 2 10 35 32 11 7 1 3 26 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 3 29
5 Livingston 20 8 4 8 20 28 10 5 2 3 10 10 10 3 2 5 10 18 -8 28
6 St. Mirren 19 7 6 6 22 26 11 6 4 1 15 8 8 1 2 5 7 18 -4 27
7 Hibernian 21 8 2 11 27 35 10 5 2 3 16 12 11 3 0 8 11 23 -8 26
8 St. Johnstone 21 7 3 11 24 32 10 3 2 5 10 10 11 4 1 6 14 22 -8 24
9 Kilmarnock 21 5 5 11 17 35 10 5 3 2 13 14 11 0 2 9 4 21 -18 20
10 Motherwell 20 5 4 11 25 31 9 1 2 6 9 16 11 4 2 5 16 15 -6 19
11 Dundee United 20 5 4 11 23 35 11 4 1 6 15 20 9 1 3 5 8 15 -12 19
12 Ross County 21 4 4 13 14 34 11 2 2 7 9 21 10 2 2 6 5 13 -20 16

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.