After the first game it's St. Johnstone - Motherwell 1-0 in points. Who will triumph in this second Premiership game of the season?
Johnstone have less rest than Motherwell in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Europa League game only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Galatasaray.
St. Johnstone form and stats
Last season, St. Johnstone's league statistics were 8 wins, 12 draws and 9 losses, resulting in a 7th position in the Premiership. Over these 29 matches they scored 28 goals and conceded 46. Playing at home last season St. Johnstone managed 5-6-5 (win-draw-lost) with 19 goals and 26 conceded.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 338 minutes without scoring a league goal. G. Middleton was the last player to find the net. Johnstone are confident in defense, having played 185 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
The home team returns to McDiarmid Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Galatasaray on their last time out; the Europa League game ended 1-1.
Before that, St. Johnstone played out a Premiership draw 0-0 when visiting Ross County.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Johnstone have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won three times, drawn four and lost one.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Europa League game versus Galatasaray in only four days. This game is also played here at McDiarmid Park.
Motherwell form and stats
Let's have a look at how Motherwell performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 4 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded 38 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 3 and lost 5 with 18/15 goals scored/conceded.
The manager G. Alexander was unhappy after their last game, a Premiership match played at their home ground Fir Park. Motherwell suffered a 2-3 loss to Hibernian (placed 3rd). Kevin van Veen, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.81. Veen scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 7 of 10 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Annan Athletic in the League Cup.Motherwell are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, two draws and three defeats. From a total of nine matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Johnstone four wins, one draw and Motherwell five victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Mugabi 1 goals |  K. van Veen 1 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Motherwell missing players
| St. Johnstone | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| St. Johnstone | Last season | Motherwell | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Drew | D | 6 | 9 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Lost | L | 7 | 17 | ||
| 36 | 9 | Scored | S | 19 | 39 | ||
| 46 | 15 | Conceded | C | 24 | 55 | ||
| 89% | 79% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 92% | ||
| 58% | 32% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 74% | 71% | ||
| 37% | 16% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 47% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 16% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 5% | 11% | ||
| 42% | 21% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 42% | ||
| 29% | 47% | Clean Sheets | C S | 37% | 32% | ||
| 39% | 53% | Failed to Score | F T | 32% | 34% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11.1 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.9 | 10.5 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 2.9 | ||
| 32% | 21% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 35% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Aberdeen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Hearts | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Dundee | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Ross County | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Celtic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Dundee United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Livingston | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |