National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Livingston or Ross County that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Livingston form and stats
Last season their Scottish Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.Livingston's last game was hosting Dundee and winning 2-0. The striker Anderson bettered all the other footballers in that fixture and got a match rating of 8.34 out of 10. Anderson scored two goals, hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.
Heartbreak before that as Livingston lost 1-2 at Motherwell's place.This is expected to be a close game, with Livingston perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Livingston as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Livingston has won six of these, drawn five and lost three.
Livingston are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Rangers awaits in four days.
Ross County form and stats
Last season their Scottish Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.Ross County go into this game after a win, the home game against Motherwell that ended 3-1. Charles-Cook got a match rating of 7.4 in that game, top player of the team. Charles-Cook scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, the Ross County manager Mackay faced defeat when travelling to Hearts and losing 1-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Ross County in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Ross County, two draws and two defeats.
County have another match that requires travelling in just four sleeps, a Premiership fixture against Dundee United. A rough fixture list for the visitors!
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings featuring these teams: Livingston won six, Ross County were winners in two and we saw two draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with under 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  R. Charles-Cook 8 goals |   B. Anderson 7 goals |  B. Spittal 4 goals |
Livingston missing players
Ross County missing players
| Livingston | Ross County | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 22 | 13 | Scored | S | 14 | 35 | ||
| 30 | 13 | Conceded | C | 21 | 43 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 36% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 28% | ||
| 3.6 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 5.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.9 | 6.1 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 8.4 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 11.1 | ||
| 2.8 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 32% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 37% | ||
| 13.3 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.2 | 13.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||
