Club members at Fir Park haven’t witnessed many victories this season, with Motherwell rotting in the 9th place. The visiting St. Johnstone will attempt to guard their higher league spot in this match.
- Motherwell have the fewest points (6) at home in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
It's no vacation for neither Motherwell nor St. Johnstone as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Motherwell form and stats
Motherwell's struggle is real here at Fir Park with only 6 points collected from 10 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-6. With eight home Premiership games in a row without a win, the Motherwell fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.
In their previous game, the manager Hammell led his Motherwell to a defeat away at St. Mirren. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Fir Park. Defender Lamie got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.13/10. Lamie won 9 of 15 duels.
Before that one, a strong away win at Arbroath. A Scottish Cup game. 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.
Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 12 latest league matches shows that 9 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.
Motherwell are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Aberdeen awaits in three days.
Motherwell have conceded 17 from these games.
St. Johnstone form and stats
4 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses. That’s the product of St. Johnstone playing as the away team in the Premiership this season. With the St. Johnstone losing streak of six defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.
There might be some fixture complaints from St. Johnstone as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-2 against Rangers. Johnstone goalkeeper Matthews could take pride in a super shift vs Rangers, but despite managing ten saves the loss could not be evaded.
The fixture before that was the Scottish Cup-duel against Rangers, a home loss (0-1). St. Johnstone are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.
After this away game St. Johnstone return home for a Premiership game against Celtic. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Johnstone have scored 14 goals in 12 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Here's what happened when the sides played each other previously this season; St. Johnstone - Motherwell 1-1. Head to head numbers (for the prior ten meetings): Motherwell won two games, three matches ended with a tie and St. Johnstone managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  K. van Veen 9 goals |  S. McKinstry 4 goals |   N. Clark 4 goals |
Motherwell missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Motherwell | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 26 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | 26 |
| 33 | 17 | 5 | Conceded | C | 4 | 24 | 38 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 73% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 74% |
| 59% | 70% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 61% |
| 23% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 26% |
| 18% | 10% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 59% | 70% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 23% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 23% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 35% |
| 5.4 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| 5 | 3.4 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 6 | 6.7 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11.7 | 12.2 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 8.8 | 9 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 37% | 33% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 39% | 43% |
| 11.2 | 8.9 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 15.8 | 14 |
| 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 5.6 | 4.6 |
- Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Motherwell have the fewest points (6) at home in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- St. Johnstone is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| 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 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 10 | 52 | 61 |
| 2 | Rangers | 23 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 53 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 31 | 55 |
| 3 | Hearts | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 38 |
| 4 | Livingston | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -6 | 31 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 35 | 37 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 23 | -2 | 30 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 23 | -8 | 30 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 23 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 35 | 43 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 33 | -8 | 29 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 24 | -12 | 24 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 16 | -7 | 20 |
| 10 | Dundee United | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -12 | 20 |
| 11 | Ross County | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 35 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -17 | 20 |
| 12 | Kilmarnock | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 41 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 24 | -22 | 20 |
