Open game expected at The SMISA Stadium: St. Mirren vs Dundee United preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 16.May
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: The SMISA Stadium (8016 seats)

This promises to be another interesting encounter at The SMISA Stadium in the Premiership. St. Mirren is in 7th position and welcome Dundee United in 8th place. Read all about the match here!

Insights:
  • Dundee United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

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. Mirren form and stats

Last season, St. Mirren's league statistics were 7 wins, 8 draws and 15 losses, resulting in a 9th position in the Premiership. Over these 30 matches they scored 24 goals and conceded 41. Playing at home last season St. Mirren managed 5-6-4 (win-draw-lost) with 13 goals and 13 conceded.

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 Mirren have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won three, drawn six and lost one.

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Dundee United form and stats

Last season was a triumph for Dundee in the national league as they took home the Premiership trophy. The championship was secured after 18 wins, 5 draws and only 5 defeats. As this is an away game, it's natural to look at the stats for away matches last season: Won 8, drew 2 and lost 4.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Dundee United in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Dundee, four draws and one defeat.

Head 2 Head

Mirren and Dundee United have met before this season: Dundee United - St. Mirren 1-5. Mirren-Dundee United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: St. Mirren three wins, Dundee United four wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

St. MirrenJ. McGrath
J. McGrath
10 goals
Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
8 goals
MirrenJ. Obika
J. Obika
5 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Dundee United missing players

St. Mirren Dundee United
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
37 18 0 Played P 0 18 37
11 4 0 Won W 0 4 10
11 7 0 Drew D 0 7 13
15 7 0 Lost L 0 7 14
37 15 0 Scored S 0 11 32
45 23 0 Conceded C 0 26 50
92% 89% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 78% 84%
65% 72% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 70%
38% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 39% 43%
14% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 16%
8% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 5%
46% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
27% 28% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 39% 32%
35% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.9 1.8
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11 11.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9.3 8.6
3.4 3.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.4 2.4
30% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 26% 36%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

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.