Betting preview: St. Johnstone vs Livingston should be interesting

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 14.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

St. Johnstone are set for a new test after their 0-2 versus Aberdeen last time. Livingston are coming to town!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

St. Johnstone and Livingston should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, St. Johnstone have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 10 games. It's trouble wherever St. Johnstone are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

Johnstone haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 191 minutes ago. Murphy scored that one.

St. Johnstone lost their last game at Aberdeen (placed 4th) after a 0-2 scoreline. Murphy (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.15/10. Murphy hit two key passes.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Dundee United (0-1).

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 Johnstone have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 3 and lost 4.

St. Johnstone has scored {10 goals-1} so far and conceded {10 goals-2} from 10 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Livingston form and stats

3 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Livingston playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

It's the second away game in a row for Livingston, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Ross County (placed 12th) last time out. That victory felt sweet as this side had gone five league fixtures without winning. Anderson, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.63. Anderson scored two goals.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Motherwell.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Livingston playing away and similar expectations, we found 11 relevant matches. Results were 4 Livingston wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Livingston are hosting Dundee United in the Premiership only four days away.

In the opposite end, Livingston have conceded 18 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other already this season, with the final score Livingston - Johnstone 1-0 logged in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): St. Johnstone four wins, two draws and Livingston four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. JohnstoneN. Clark
N. Clark
4 goals
St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
4 goals
LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
4 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Livingston missing players

St. Johnstone Livingston
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 2 10 20
7 3 1 Won W 0 3 8
3 2 0 Drew D 0 2 4
11 5 1 Lost L 2 5 8
24 10 3 Scored S 1 10 20
32 10 1 Conceded C 6 18 28
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 70%
62% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 45%
24% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 15%
14% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
57% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 50%
14% 30% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 25%
33% 40% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 25%
 
3.1 3.4 2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.2 3.8
6.7 7.7 9 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 7.8 6.6
2.8 3.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 2.3
2 1 1 Red cards R C 1 4 5
 
9.2 9.1 7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.2 9.9
2.7 2.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.7 3
42% 45% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 37% 33%
 
13.9 12.1 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 17 17 15.7
4.3 3.4 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.2 4.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.

  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 21 19 1 1 65 17 10 10 0 0 30 7 11 9 1 1 35 10 48 58
2 Rangers 20 14 4 2 46 20 11 9 2 0 30 7 9 5 2 2 16 13 26 46
3 Hearts 20 9 5 6 36 31 9 6 1 2 22 16 11 3 4 4 14 15 5 32
4 Aberdeen 21 9 2 10 35 32 11 7 1 3 26 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 3 29
5 Livingston 20 8 4 8 20 28 10 5 2 3 10 10 10 3 2 5 10 18 -8 28
6 St. Mirren 19 7 6 6 22 26 11 6 4 1 15 8 8 1 2 5 7 18 -4 27
7 St. Johnstone 21 7 3 11 24 32 10 3 2 5 10 10 11 4 1 6 14 22 -8 24
8 Hibernian 20 7 2 11 24 33 10 5 2 3 16 12 10 2 0 8 8 21 -9 23
9 Kilmarnock 21 5 5 11 17 35 10 5 3 2 13 14 11 0 2 9 4 21 -18 20
10 Motherwell 19 5 4 10 23 28 8 1 2 5 7 13 11 4 2 5 16 15 -5 19
11 Dundee United 19 5 4 10 23 33 10 4 1 5 15 18 9 1 3 5 8 15 -10 19
12 Ross County 21 4 4 13 14 34 11 2 2 7 9 21 10 2 2 6 5 13 -20 16

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.