Motherwell vs St. Johnstone match preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 12.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

St. Johnstone have traveled here for an interesting fight against the hosts Motherwell. Prepare for the match with this Premiership preview!

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Motherwell form and stats

Three Premiership home games done for Motherwell, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches.

A. Campbell was the last player to score a league goal for Motherwell and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Motherwell haven't scored in 325 minutes.

No payout for Motherwell in their previous match, an away game at Celtic that ended in defeat 0-3. Before that game, the 5-1 home victory against Glentoran.

Motherwell have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. Motherwell have conceded 4 in these home matches.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

Things could have gone better for St. Johnstone in their Premiership away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.

Stevie May scored in St. Johnstone's previous match, the home game against St. Mirren that ended 1-0. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Hibernian.

World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager C. Davidson when Stevie May scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 67th minute.

Johnstone find the net regularly in their away games. 3 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. In the opposite end, Johnstone have conceded 5 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Motherwell five wins, one draw and St. Johnstone four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellA. Campbell
A. Campbell
1 goals
St. JohnstoneL. Craig
L. Craig
1 goals
St. JohnstoneD. Wotherspoon
D. Wotherspoon
1 goals

Motherwell missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Motherwell St. Johnstone
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 3 6
0 0 0 Won W 1 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 3
2 2 0 Scored S 2 3 4
8 4 1 Conceded C 1 5 7
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
33% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 50%
33% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 33%
17% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
17% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 33%
17% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
83% 67% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 50%
 
7.3 7.7 7 Corners for (avg) C F 1 2 4.5
6 6 8 Corners against (avg) C A 11 6.7 4.5
1.7 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
81 43 19 Total Shots T S 16 28 60
16 11 5 Shots on Target S O 5 11 18
12% 18% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 27% 22%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of St. Johnstone's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Motherwell have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Motherwell have yet to win a game.
  • Motherwell is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest scored goals in the first half (0)
  • St. Johnstone has the most points from losing position (4)
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • St. Johnstone have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 6 5 1 0 11 0 3 3 0 0 8 0 3 2 1 0 3 0 11 16
2 Hibernian 6 4 1 1 8 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 0 0 6 1 5 13
3 Celtic 4 3 1 0 10 2 2 2 0 0 8 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 8 10
4 Aberdeen 4 3 0 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 9
5 Ross County 6 2 2 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 8
6 St. Mirren 5 2 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 0 2 1 3 1 0 2 1 4 -2 7
7 St. Johnstone 6 2 1 3 4 7 3 1 0 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 3 5 -3 7
8 Dundee United 6 2 1 3 4 8 3 0 1 2 1 3 3 2 0 1 3 5 -4 7
9 Kilmarnock 6 1 2 3 9 9 3 1 1 1 6 3 3 0 1 2 3 6 0 5
10 Livingston 6 1 2 3 5 9 3 1 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 2 3 5 -4 5
11 Hamilton Academical 5 1 0 4 2 9 3 0 0 3 0 4 2 1 0 1 2 5 -7 3
12 Motherwell 6 0 2 4 2 8 3 0 1 2 2 4 3 0 1 2 0 4 -6 2

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.