Can Ross County beat Hibernian in Global Energy Stadium clash?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Global Energy Stadium (6541 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Ross County have their presumed home advantage while Hibernian are ahead 9 points in the Premiership table.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Ross County form and stats

Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Ross County, who have the most conceded goals (12) at home in Premiership, are 1-1-3 (wins-draw-losses). With County having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager S. Kettlewell.

County haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 228 minutes ago. I. Vigurs scored that one.

County's previous game was a League Cup match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Arbroath. The home side are looking to build on that result. Preceding that game was the away draw at Montrose (after extra-time, 4-5 on penalties) that finished 3-3.

Ross County have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for County with 12 goals conceded in these matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Hibernian have produced an overall stat of 4-0-1 so far.

Two travels in a row for Hibernian, whose manager J. Ross could celebrate last time after the League Cup win against Forfar Athletic. Preceding that game was the away victory against Cove Rangers with the score of 2-1.

Hibernian are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 5 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Hibernian as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - three - five (Ross County wins - draws - Hibernian wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
6 goals
HibernianM. Boyle
M. Boyle
3 goals
HibernianC. Doidge
C. Doidge
3 goals

Ross County missing players

Hibernian missing players

Ross County Hibernian
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 2 5 10
3 1 0 Won W 2 4 6
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 2
5 3 2 Lost L 0 1 2
7 4 0 Scored S 5 9 16
16 12 8 Conceded C 1 4 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
60% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 60%
40% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 60%
20% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 20% 30%
10% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 20%
30% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 20% 40%
30% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 60% 40%
40% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.5
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
84 46 17 Total Shots T S 24 51 107
19 13 5 Shots on Target S O 10 18 39
37% 31% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 41%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Hibernian have scored more than double the goals of Ross County.
  • Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals (12) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ross County 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 10 8 2 0 24 3 5 5 0 0 14 0 5 3 2 0 10 3 21 26
2 Celtic 9 8 1 0 25 5 4 4 0 0 14 3 5 4 1 0 11 2 20 25
3 Hibernian 10 6 2 2 16 10 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 4 0 1 9 4 6 20
4 Aberdeen 8 6 0 2 10 6 5 3 0 2 5 6 3 3 0 0 5 0 4 18
5 Kilmarnock 9 3 2 4 12 11 4 2 1 1 8 4 5 1 1 3 4 7 1 11
6 Livingston 10 3 2 5 12 15 5 2 1 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 7 9 -3 11
7 Dundee United 10 3 2 5 8 16 5 1 1 3 4 6 5 2 1 2 4 10 -8 11
8 Ross County 10 3 2 5 7 16 5 1 1 3 4 12 5 2 1 2 3 4 -9 11
9 Motherwell 9 2 2 5 7 13 5 1 1 3 4 9 4 1 1 2 3 4 -6 8
10 Hamilton Academical 9 2 1 6 8 16 4 0 1 3 1 5 5 2 0 3 7 11 -8 7
11 St. Mirren 10 2 1 7 6 15 5 1 1 3 3 7 5 1 0 4 3 8 -9 7
12 St. Johnstone 10 2 1 7 4 13 5 1 0 4 1 5 5 1 1 3 3 8 -9 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.