Football facts: St. Johnstone vs Ross County - predictions and statistics

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 04.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

Fixate on their own playing style or switch tactics dependant on the opponent? Both St. Johnstone and Ross County should try something else than in earlier matches. Learn more!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (9) in Premiership
  • Ross County have scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.

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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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone's struggle is real here at McDiarmid Park with only 6 points collected from 8 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-4. When St. Johnstone hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Livingston, Dundee and St. Johnstone), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

St. Johnstone faced defeat in their previous match, away at Dundee (0-1). Defender Shaun Rooney got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.93/10. Rooney hit one key pass and won 10 of 13 duels.

Preceding that match was the home game against Hibernian that was lost 1-2.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for St. Johnstone here at McDiarmid Park in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 8 games). Johnstone have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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Ross County form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ross County so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to St. Mirren (placed 8th) in their previous outing. The Premiership match ended in a draw 0-0. Goalkeeper Ashley Maynard Brewer made a total of nine saves, making him a hero against St. Mirren. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes. Ashley Maynard Brewer (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 9.13. Brewer stopped the opponent with nine saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

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

Ross County have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 9 goals have been scored. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. County's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 14 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The latest past scoreline involving both these participants is the Ross County - Johnstone 0-0 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Johnstone victories, six draws and two Ross County wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Ross CountyR. Charles-Cook
R. Charles-Cook
4 goals
Ross CountyB. Spittal
B. Spittal
4 goals
Ross CountyH. Clarke
H. Clarke
3 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Ross County missing players

St. Johnstone Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 8 2 Played P 1 8 15
3 1 1 Won W 1 1 2
5 3 0 Drew D 0 2 5
7 4 1 Lost L 0 5 8
9 7 3 Scored S 5 9 19
15 11 4 Conceded C 0 14 27
80% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 87%
47% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 73%
27% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 60%
7% 12% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 33%
33% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 53%
33% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 25% 27%
53% 38% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 33%
 
4.7 5.5 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 3.4 3.7
5.5 5.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 8.4 6.6
2.8 3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.3
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.2 9.6 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14 11.5 11
2.4 2.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.9 3.9
25% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 83% 29% 32%
 
13.8 13.4 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7 17.1 14.7
4.1 4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 5.6 5.1
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Ross County have scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (9) in Premiership

  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 16 12 3 1 36 14 8 5 3 0 17 7 8 7 0 1 19 7 22 39
2 Celtic 15 10 2 3 33 10 8 6 2 0 21 2 7 4 0 3 12 8 23 32
3 Hearts 16 7 6 3 25 15 8 5 3 0 16 5 8 2 3 3 9 10 10 27
4 Dundee United 16 7 4 5 15 15 7 5 0 2 6 4 9 2 4 3 9 11 0 25
5 Motherwell 17 7 4 6 21 25 9 5 1 3 13 14 8 2 3 3 8 11 -4 25
6 Aberdeen 17 6 3 8 22 22 9 5 1 3 13 8 8 1 2 5 9 14 0 21
7 Hibernian 15 5 4 6 18 19 8 3 2 3 10 10 7 2 2 3 8 9 -1 19
8 St. Mirren 17 3 8 6 17 28 8 1 4 3 6 8 9 2 4 3 11 20 -11 17
9 Dundee 16 4 4 8 15 30 9 3 3 3 12 15 7 1 1 5 3 15 -15 16
10 St. Johnstone 15 3 5 7 9 15 8 1 3 4 7 11 7 2 2 3 2 4 -6 14
11 Livingston 15 3 4 8 12 22 6 1 1 4 5 9 9 2 3 4 7 13 -10 13
12 Ross County 15 2 5 8 19 27 7 1 3 3 10 13 8 1 2 5 9 14 -8 11

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.