The SMISA Stadium: St. Mirren vs Motherwell Premiership preview

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It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Mirren and Motherwell.

St. Mirren form and stats

St. Mirren's struggle is real here at The SMISA Stadium with only 15 points collected from 15 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-6-6. The last three games played by Mirren, regardless of arena, have all ended draws. Two draws in a row at home now for St. Mirren.

The spoils were shared in Mirren's previous game, also at home. Visiting Livingston (placed 5th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. In the match before that, Mirren hosted Hamilton Academical and drew the game 1-1.

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 Mirren have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won four times, drawn three and lost one.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Ross County are coming to town in three days.

Mirren have scored 13 league goals here from 15 matches, not a lot. St. Mirren's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 21 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Motherwell form and stats

4-4-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Motherwell in their Premiership matches away.

Motherwell failed to get anything from their last game, a Premiership home match vs St. Johnstone (placed 8th) that ended with defeat 0-3. A loss against Hamilton Academical was the result prior to that, in a home game.

We have checked recent matches where Motherwell have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those twelve games were four victories, three draws and five defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Motherwell manager G. Alexander as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Hibernian.

The visitors have scored 13 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Motherwell have seen the ball go into their own net 18 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Mirren - Motherwell 1-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Mirren victories, four draws and three Motherwell wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. McGrath 5 goals

J. Obika 5 goals

D. Cole 5 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Motherwell missing players