Premiership match preview and statistics: Ross County fight St. Johnstone

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Global Energy Stadium (6541 seats)

Ross County are welcoming St. Johnstone for another important game after their 0-0 result against 4th-placed Hibernian.

Insights:
  • Ross County has the fewest scored goals (10) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Premiership

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for County and St. Johnstone.

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Ross County form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Ross County, who have the fewest scored goals (10) in Premiership, have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Global Energy Stadium. All in all it has been a very rough period for County who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 13 attempts. Their previous win was against St. Johnstone, 105 days ago. With nine home Premiership games in a row without a win, the County fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Motherwell game long ago, can be stopped today.

Ross County are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 498 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by T. Grivosti).

An away draw last time out for County, facing Hibernian in a game that ended 0-0. Preceding that match was a defeat to St. Mirren (0-2).

The lack of attacking qualities in Ross County means that they have only scored 5 goals in 10 league home games, less than half a goal per match. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. County are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (21 from 10 played).

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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-3-5 (10 played). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Johnstone have lost on their last two travels.

There were no winners in Johnstone's previous match, a Premiership home game that ended 0-0 vs Hamilton Academical (placed 10th). Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Aberdeen's place.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Johnstone have scored 14 goals in 10 league games away. As for defending, St. Johnstone rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 19 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

County and St. Johnstone have met before this season: St. Johnstone - Ross County 0-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Ross County victories, six draws and two St. Johnstone wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
5 goals
St. JohnstoneD. Wotherspoon
D. Wotherspoon
3 goals
Ross CountyO. Shaw
O. Shaw
2 goals

Ross County missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Ross County St. Johnstone
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 2 10 21
3 1 0 Won W 2 2 4
5 3 1 Drew D 0 3 6
13 6 1 Lost L 0 5 11
10 5 2 Scored S 7 14 18
38 21 4 Conceded C 4 19 30
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
71% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 62%
38% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 38%
24% 30% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 14%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 10%
29% 30% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 70% 43%
24% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 19%
57% 60% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 30% 48%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 2
5 4 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
8.5 9 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 19.5 10.3 11.2
1.9 2.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 3.2 2.5
25% 21% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 54% 44% 34%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County has the fewest scored goals (10) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals (21) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (25) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-16) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-28) 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 is in the worst form (0-0-6)
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Premiership
  • 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 scored at least twice as many goals away as Ross County have scored home.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 21 19 2 0 56 5 10 10 0 0 32 1 11 9 2 0 24 4 51 59
2 Celtic 18 13 4 1 45 14 9 7 1 1 22 6 9 6 3 0 23 8 31 43
3 Aberdeen 19 11 5 3 27 18 10 7 1 2 18 12 9 4 4 1 9 6 9 38
4 Hibernian 20 10 6 4 30 18 9 3 5 1 13 11 11 7 1 3 17 7 12 36
5 Dundee United 21 6 7 8 17 27 11 4 3 4 12 11 10 2 4 4 5 16 -10 25
6 Livingston 19 7 3 9 22 26 9 3 1 5 8 12 10 4 2 4 14 14 -4 24
7 Motherwell 20 6 5 9 23 26 10 2 2 6 9 17 10 4 3 3 14 9 -3 23
8 St. Mirren 20 6 3 11 14 27 11 2 3 6 7 18 9 4 0 5 7 9 -13 21
9 St. Johnstone 21 4 6 11 18 30 11 2 3 6 4 11 10 2 3 5 14 19 -12 18
10 Hamilton Academical 21 5 3 13 21 45 10 1 2 7 6 20 11 4 1 6 15 25 -24 18
11 Kilmarnock 20 5 2 13 19 28 10 3 1 6 12 14 10 2 1 7 7 14 -9 17
12 Ross County 20 3 4 13 10 38 10 1 3 6 5 21 10 2 1 7 5 17 -28 13

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.