It's round two of the Premiership campaign and a lot to play for. Read our complete preview of Motherwell-St. Johnstone!
Both teams have had enough days rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's trust this will be an energetic match!
Motherwell form and stats
The season before, Motherwell's league statistics were 14 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses, ending with 3rd spot in the Premiership. From these 30 matches they scored 41 goals and gave away 38. Performing as the host team in the previous season Motherwell produced 7-1-7 (win-draw-lost) with 23 goals and 23 conceded.
A strong away win for Motherwell against St. Mirren the last match, as van Veen were on target. Motherwell goalkeeper Kelly did an outstanding job against St. Mirren with six saves, so vital to securing the victory. Goalkeeper Kelly got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.45 out of ten. Kelly topped it up with a clean sheet.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Motherwell have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 2 and lost 3.
St. Johnstone form and stats
The attacking players of Johnstone have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 253 minutes.
St. Johnstone might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Hibernian proved too strong as St. Johnstone slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at McDiarmid Park. Considine was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.13. The defender Considine won 4 of 4 duels.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with St. Johnstone playing away and similar expectations, we found 11 relevant matches. Results were 5 St. Johnstone wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head numbers (for the last ten meetings): Motherwell won four games, two matches ended with a draw and St. Johnstone managed four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  K. van Veen 1 goals |
Motherwell missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Motherwell | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 1 |
