Ross County will cross fingers that their home advantage is enough to get some points from this demanding battle, versus fiery Motherwell.
- Ross County have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Premiership
- Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Ross County form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Ross County have only managed 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Global Energy Stadium.
In their previous game, the manager Mackay led his Ross County to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Hearts. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Global Energy Stadium. Midfield player Hungbo got a match rating of 7.42 in that game, the max score being 10. Hungbo served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting St. Johnstone.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 Ross County have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost three.
There will be little rest for Ross County after this match as they are travelling to Livingston for a Scottish Cup game in only four days.
County have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Global Energy Stadium with 14 goals in 9 league matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded. When Ross County hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like St. Mirren, Dundee and St. Johnstone), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
Motherwell form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Motherwell so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose).
van Veen (2) scored in Motherwell's previous match, the home game against Livingston that ended 2-1. Attacker van Veen got a player rating of 8.63 in the game. "Man of the match" Veen scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against St. Johnstone.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Motherwell in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Motherwell, one draw and five defeats.
A new game in only four days for Motherwell, the Scottish Cup home match versus Greenock Morton. Busy days.
The attacking power of Motherwell when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 9 league matches away. As opposed to that, Motherwell have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The latest head to head meeting ended Motherwell - County 2-1, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ross County four wins, one draw and Motherwell five victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Watt 9 goals |  K. van Veen 7 goals |   R. Charles-Cook 6 goals |
Ross County missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Ross County | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 27 | 14 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 25 |
| 35 | 17 | 8 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 27 |
| 90% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 85% |
| 65% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 40% |
| 35% | 56% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 30% | 44% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 65% | 78% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 50% |
| 20% | 22% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 30% |
| 25% | 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 20% |
| 3.9 | 4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.9 | 4.2 |
| 6.3 | 5 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 8 | 6.5 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11.2 | 10 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.9 | 9.5 |
| 4 | 4 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 34% | 39% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 25% | 36% |
| 14.9 | 13.4 | 21.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 16 | 15.8 |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
- Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ross County have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Premiership
- Ross County have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Premiership
| 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 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 43 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 29 | 51 |
| 2 | Celtic | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 30 | 45 |
| 3 | Hearts | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 29 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 36 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -2 | 31 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 29 |
| 6 | Aberdeen | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 27 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -7 | 25 |
| 8 | Livingston | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -10 | 20 |
| 9 | St. Mirren | 20 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 18 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 22 | -13 | 19 |
| 10 | Ross County | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 18 | -8 | 18 |
| 11 | Dundee | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 37 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 21 | -19 | 16 |
| 12 | St. Johnstone | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | -14 | 14 |
