Global Energy Stadium: Ross County vs St. Johnstone Premiership preview

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

Ross County hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 25 points and a 9th position in the Premiership table. Visiting St. Johnstone holds 8th place with 30 pts.

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

5-2-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Ross County, who have the most conceded goals (53) in Premiership, so far this season.

No payout for Ross County in their previous match, an away game at Hibernian that ended in defeat 0-3. Before that, Ross County had a home game versus Livingston which ended with a victory 2-0.

Ross County are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 12 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Ross County defense is not exactly impregnable. 21 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

Playing away, St. Johnstone have won 3 games, drawn 4 and suffered 4 defeats in the Premiership this season.

St. Johnstone won their last game, 2-1 versus Motherwell played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Ayr United.

The end of the last match, against Motherwell, was very satisfying as Chris Kane scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

The attacking power of St. Johnstone when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 11 league matches away. In the opposite end, St. Johnstone have conceded 19 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Ross County and St. Johnstone have met before this season: St. Johnstone - Ross County 1-1. Ross County-St. Johnstone H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Ross County two wins, St. Johnstone three wins, five draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

St. JohnstoneC. Hendry
C. Hendry
5 goals
Ross CountyB. McKay
B. McKay
4 goals
St. JohnstoneA. McCann
A. McCann
4 goals

Ross County missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Ross County St. Johnstone
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 12 4 Played P 3 11 25
6 5 3 Won W 2 3 7
7 2 0 Drew D 0 4 9
13 5 1 Lost L 1 4 9
25 16 6 Scored S 2 8 24
53 21 5 Conceded C 2 19 43
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 92%
85% 83% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 55% 64%
73% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 36% 48%
38% 42% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 36%
12% 17% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 16%
50% 58% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 27% 44%
23% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 36% 24%
38% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 45% 40%
 
3.5 4 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.7 5
6.7 6.2 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.7 4.8
2 1.8 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2 1.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
159 82 34 Total Shots T S 24 94 242
65 35 13 Shots on Target S O 7 33 91
38% 46% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 24% 26%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County has the fewest matches under the total-line (8)
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals (53)
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (32)
  • Ross County has the most matches over the total-line (17)
  • Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-28)
  • 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.
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest scored goals (8) away
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 Celtic 26 23 1 2 77 15 13 12 0 1 42 6 13 11 1 1 35 9 62 70
2 Rangers 25 19 3 3 60 16 12 10 1 1 32 6 13 9 2 2 28 10 44 60
3 Aberdeen 26 11 8 7 33 29 12 6 3 3 18 14 14 5 5 4 15 15 4 41
4 Motherwell 26 13 2 11 35 34 13 6 1 6 18 20 13 7 1 5 17 14 1 41
5 Livingston 26 10 7 9 38 34 13 8 3 2 17 6 13 2 4 7 21 28 4 37
6 Hibernian 26 8 9 9 37 41 13 5 6 2 24 18 13 3 3 7 13 23 -4 33
7 Kilmarnock 26 9 5 12 27 33 13 6 4 3 17 11 13 3 1 9 10 22 -6 32
8 St. Johnstone 25 7 9 9 24 43 14 4 5 5 16 24 11 3 4 4 8 19 -19 30
9 Ross County 26 6 7 13 25 53 12 5 2 5 16 21 14 1 5 8 9 32 -28 25
10 St. Mirren 26 5 7 14 21 35 13 4 5 4 12 13 13 1 2 10 9 22 -14 22
11 Hamilton Academical 26 4 7 15 26 48 14 3 2 9 15 26 12 1 5 6 11 22 -22 19
12 Hearts 26 3 9 14 25 47 13 2 5 6 16 20 13 1 4 8 9 27 -22 18

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.