St. Mirren favourites for feisty fight facing Ross County

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 01.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The SMISA Stadium (8016 seats)

Most would pick St. Mirren in this match vs Ross County, but the visitors will resist to the end. Here's our match guide!

Insights:
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Mirren nor Ross County as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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St. Mirren form and stats

St. Mirren's results here at The SMISA Stadium in the Premiership have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

St. Mirren faced defeat in their previous match, away at Hearts (0-2). The attacking player Jamie McGrath was named "man of the match" for Mirren with a rating of 7.6/10. McGrath hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 36 successful passes (of 45 total).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Livingston that ended 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does St. Mirren handle that role? We have found ten games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, six draws and two defeats.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mirren as they are travelling to their away game against Aberdeen in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.

Mirren aren't scoring a lot here at The SMISA Stadium in the league, with only 6 goals from 7 games. On the other hand, St. Mirren have conceded 8 goals.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 1-1-5 (7 played).

County played 1-1 against Dundee United in their previous match. Defender Jack Baldwin was the best team player with a rating of 8.23. Baldwin scored one goal, hit the woodwork two (!) times and won 9 of 12 duels.

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Hibernian.

We have checked recent matches where County have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were three victories, one draw and four defeats.

County have another match away from home in just three nights, a Premiership fixture against St. Johnstone. A hard timetable for the visitors!

County find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. County have conceded 14 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Ross County - Mirren 2-3 was the end result in these participants' last head-to-head game, played this season. St. Mirren-Ross County H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mirren seven wins, Ross County two wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

MirrenE. Brophy
E. Brophy
5 goals
Ross CountyR. Charles-Cook
R. Charles-Cook
4 goals
Ross CountyB. Spittal
B. Spittal
4 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Ross County missing players

St. Mirren Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 3 7 14
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 2
7 3 2 Drew D 1 1 4
5 3 1 Lost L 2 5 8
16 6 1 Scored S 2 9 19
24 8 2 Conceded C 6 14 27
80% 71% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
67% 57% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 79%
53% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 71% 64%
40% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 43%
20% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 36%
53% 57% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 43% 57%
27% 29% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 21%
40% 43% 67% Failed to Score F T 33% 43% 29%
 
5.3 5.6 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 3.4 3.7
5.2 3.4 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.7 7.7 6.1
1.7 1.4 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.1 2.2
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13 12.3 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.3 10.9
4.5 3.7 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.4 3.7
24% 23% 7% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 38% 37%
 
13.7 12 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 18 16.3 14.1
5.2 5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 5.4 4.9
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 haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 13 9 3 1 29 13 7 4 3 0 14 7 6 5 0 1 15 6 16 30
2 Hearts 15 7 6 2 25 14 8 5 3 0 16 5 7 2 3 2 9 9 11 27
3 Celtic 13 8 2 3 30 9 6 4 2 0 18 1 7 4 0 3 12 8 21 26
4 Dundee United 15 7 4 4 15 14 7 5 0 2 6 4 8 2 4 2 9 10 1 25
5 Motherwell 15 6 3 6 19 24 8 4 1 3 12 14 7 2 2 3 7 10 -5 21
6 Hibernian 13 5 3 5 17 17 6 3 1 2 9 8 7 2 2 3 8 9 0 18
7 St. Mirren 15 3 7 5 16 24 7 1 3 3 6 8 8 2 4 2 10 16 -8 16
8 Aberdeen 14 4 3 7 15 19 7 3 1 3 7 7 7 1 2 4 8 12 -4 15
9 St. Johnstone 14 3 5 6 9 14 8 1 3 4 7 11 6 2 2 2 2 3 -5 14
10 Livingston 13 3 4 6 11 17 5 1 1 3 4 6 8 2 3 3 7 11 -6 13
11 Dundee 14 3 4 7 14 27 8 2 3 3 11 15 6 1 1 4 3 12 -13 13
12 Ross County 14 2 4 8 19 27 7 1 3 3 10 13 7 1 1 5 9 14 -8 10

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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.