Premiership preview: Can Motherwell edge out victory against Ross County?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 24.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Motherwell hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 8 points and a 10th position in the Premiership table. Visiting Ross County holds 7th place with 12 pts.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Motherwell form and stats

1 victory, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Motherwell have to build on here at Fir Park in the Premiership.

The Motherwell crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-5 to Rangers here at Fir Park in a Premiership match. Prior to that, an away loss at Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Europa League.

Motherwell were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Motherwell handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and four defeats.

Motherwell have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.

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Ross County form and stats

2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Ross County playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

I. Vigurs was the last player to score for the away team. County haven't scored a league goal in the last 318 minutes.

County's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Hibernian that finished 0-0. Before that, County secured a home win against Arbroath with the score 2-1.

We have checked recent matches where County have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were three victories, one draw and two defeats.

The attacking power of County when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Ross County - Motherwell 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Motherwell victories, two draws and four Ross County wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellA. Campbell
A. Campbell
2 goals
Ross CountyR. Stewart
R. Stewart
2 goals
MotherwellB. Mugabi
B. Mugabi
1 goals

Motherwell missing players

Ross County missing players

Motherwell Ross County
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 5 2 Played P 3 5 11
2 1 0 Won W 2 2 3
2 1 1 Drew D 1 1 3
5 3 1 Lost L 0 2 5
7 4 2 Scored S 3 3 7
13 9 3 Conceded C 1 4 16
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
44% 40% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 40% 55%
44% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 36%
22% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 18%
11% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
22% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 20% 27%
33% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 40% 36%
56% 40% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 45%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
103 56 25 Total Shots T S 30 38 100
22 14 7 Shots on Target S O 5 6 20
32% 29% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 50% 35%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell has the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Premiership
  • Motherwell have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Ross County has the most matches under the total-line (7) in Premiership
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 11 9 2 0 26 3 5 5 0 0 14 0 6 4 2 0 12 3 23 29
2 Celtic 10 8 1 1 25 7 5 4 0 1 14 5 5 4 1 0 11 2 18 25
3 Hibernian 11 6 3 2 16 10 5 2 2 1 7 6 6 4 1 1 9 4 6 21
4 Aberdeen 9 6 1 2 10 6 5 3 0 2 5 6 4 3 1 0 5 0 4 19
5 Kilmarnock 10 4 2 4 15 12 4 2 1 1 8 4 6 2 1 3 7 8 3 14
6 Dundee United 11 3 3 5 8 16 6 1 2 3 4 6 5 2 1 2 4 10 -8 12
7 Ross County 11 3 3 5 7 16 6 1 2 3 4 12 5 2 1 2 3 4 -9 12
8 Livingston 11 3 2 6 13 18 6 2 1 3 6 9 5 1 1 3 7 9 -5 11
9 St. Johnstone 11 3 1 7 9 16 5 1 0 4 1 5 6 2 1 3 8 11 -7 10
10 Motherwell 9 2 2 5 7 13 5 1 1 3 4 9 4 1 1 2 3 4 -6 8
11 St. Mirren 10 2 1 7 6 15 5 1 1 3 3 7 5 1 0 4 3 8 -9 7
12 Hamilton Academical 10 2 1 7 11 21 5 0 1 4 4 10 5 2 0 3 7 11 -10 7

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.