Open game expected at Global Energy Stadium: Ross County vs St. Johnstone preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Global Energy Stadium (6541 seats)

Club members at Global Energy Stadium haven’t seen many wins this season, with Ross County decaying in the 10th position. The visiting St. Johnstone will attempt to guard their higher league position in this fixture.

Insights:
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County's results here at Global Energy Stadium in the Premiership have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Ross County lost their last game at Celtic (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline. Defender Watson got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.02/10. Watson won 4 of 4 duels.

Before that match, a win away at Hibernian.

At Global Energy Stadium, Ross County has the goal stats of 8-16 (for/against) from 8 league fixtures.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

As the visiting team matches, St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, have produced an overall stat of 3-1-4 so far.

St. Johnstone played 1-1 against Motherwell in their previous match. Wright got a match rating of 7.81 in that game, top player of the team. Wright scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to St. Mirren.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Johnstone have scored 11 goals in 8 league games away. St. Johnstone struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 15 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Ross County have won or drawn the last 4 fixtures (2-2-0) facing St. Johnstone.

St. Johnstone - County 0-0 was the end result in these squads' latest head-to-head fixture, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

St. JohnstoneN. Clark
N. Clark
4 goals
Ross CountyJ. White
J. White
3 goals
St. JohnstoneG. Carey
G. Carey
3 goals

Ross County missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Ross County St. Johnstone
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 3 Played P 3 8 16
4 2 1 Won W 2 3 6
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
9 4 2 Lost L 1 4 7
13 8 4 Scored S 5 11 19
26 16 6 Conceded C 4 15 21
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
69% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 69%
44% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 88% 62%
25% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 19%
12% 25% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
44% 62% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 56%
25% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 19%
38% 25% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 31%
 
3.6 4.2 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 2.8 3.1
6.9 7.8 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.6 6.8
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
7.9 9.2 12 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8.5 8.4
2.6 3.1 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.2 2.7
32% 32% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 56% 42% 44%
 
16.4 15 15.7 Shots against (avg) S A 9.3 15.9 13.9
4.2 4.9 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.3 4.4 4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Premiership
  • Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • 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 the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • 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 Celtic 15 14 0 1 50 13 7 7 0 0 22 5 8 7 0 1 28 8 37 42
2 Rangers 15 10 3 2 34 14 8 7 1 0 22 3 7 3 2 2 12 11 20 33
3 Aberdeen 15 8 1 6 29 23 7 6 0 1 22 6 8 2 1 5 7 17 6 25
4 Livingston 15 7 2 6 15 20 8 5 0 3 8 8 7 2 2 3 7 12 -5 23
5 Hearts 15 6 3 6 24 25 7 4 1 2 16 15 8 2 2 4 8 10 -1 21
6 St. Johnstone 16 6 3 7 19 21 8 3 2 3 8 6 8 3 1 4 11 15 -2 21
7 St. Mirren 15 6 3 6 17 23 9 5 3 1 11 6 6 1 0 5 6 17 -6 21
8 Hibernian 16 6 2 8 18 23 8 4 2 2 12 8 8 2 0 6 6 15 -5 20
9 Motherwell 16 5 2 9 20 22 7 1 1 5 5 11 9 4 1 4 15 11 -2 17
10 Ross County 16 4 3 9 13 26 8 2 2 4 8 16 8 2 1 5 5 10 -13 15
11 Kilmarnock 16 4 3 9 12 27 8 4 2 2 11 13 8 0 1 7 1 14 -15 15
12 Dundee United 16 3 3 10 17 31 8 3 0 5 10 16 8 0 3 5 7 15 -14 12

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.