Open game expected at McDiarmid Park: St. Johnstone vs Ross County preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

Examine their own game or switch tactics dependant on the opposing team? Both St. Johnstone and Ross County need to try something different than in earlier matches. Learn more!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-6) away in Premiership

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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St. Johnstone form and stats

Three Premiership home games done for St. Johnstone, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.

A nice win for Johnstone last time playing, versus St. Mirren. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-0 with Wright, Clark and Carey scoring for the victors. Sweet to taste a league victory after three fixtures without. Midfielder Wright was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.3 (out of ten) in that game. Wright scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Prior to that, an away loss at Hearts.

This is expected to be a close game, with St. Johnstone perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Johnstone as a small favourite), we find 10 games. St. Johnstone has won 3 of these, drawn 3 and lost 4.

St. Johnstone have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Ross County form and stats

It's not happening yet for Ross County on their Premiership travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different?

County played 1-1 against Aberdeen in their previous match. As mentioned above, Ross County drew the match against Aberdeen. Manager Mackay brought on Akio to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Iacovitti was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.65. The defender Iacovitti hit one key pass and won 5 of 6 duels.

The match before was the League Cup-battle against Celtic, a home loss (1-4). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Ross County in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Ross County, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Goals are few and far between in County's away league games. Only 1 goal from 3 travels. Ross County have conceded 7 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): St. Johnstone one win, five draws and Ross County 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. JohnstoneG. Carey
G. Carey
2 goals
St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
1 goals
St. JohnstoneA. Considine
A. Considine
1 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Ross County missing players

St. Johnstone Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 0 3 6
2 1 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 3 4
7 3 0 Scored S 0 1 4
10 2 0 Conceded C 0 7 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 67%
67% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 50%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 33%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 50%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
50% 67% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 33%
 
3.3 3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.7 2.5
6.5 7.7 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.7 8.2
3 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 2.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
6 6.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 7.3
2.5 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1.7 2.3
47% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 29%
 
15.5 13 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 17.7 17.3
3.8 2.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.7 4.8
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-6) away in Premiership
  • Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 6 6 0 0 25 1 3 3 0 0 8 0 3 3 0 0 17 1 24 18
2 Rangers 6 4 1 1 14 7 3 3 0 0 10 0 3 1 1 1 4 7 7 13
3 Aberdeen 6 3 1 2 13 7 3 2 0 1 11 4 3 1 1 1 2 3 6 10
4 Hearts 6 3 1 2 10 8 3 3 0 0 9 4 3 0 1 2 1 4 2 10
5 Motherwell 6 3 1 2 7 6 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 0 1 5 4 1 10
6 St. Mirren 6 3 0 3 6 8 3 2 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 4 7 -2 9
7 Livingston 6 3 0 3 5 9 3 2 0 1 4 3 3 1 0 2 1 6 -4 9
8 Hibernian 6 2 2 2 6 6 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 1 0 2 2 3 0 8
9 St. Johnstone 6 2 0 4 7 10 3 1 0 2 3 2 3 1 0 2 4 8 -3 6
10 Ross County 6 1 1 4 4 11 3 1 1 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 1 7 -7 4
11 Kilmarnock 6 1 1 4 3 11 3 1 1 1 3 7 3 0 0 3 0 4 -8 4
12 Dundee United 6 0 2 4 2 18 3 0 0 3 0 13 3 0 2 1 2 5 -16 2

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.