Hamilton Academical vs Ross County Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Hamilton Academical

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Hamilton Academical will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-0 Championship victory versus Greenock Morton.

The only name on the scoresheet from Hamilton Academical was Andrew Winter (19').

Fewer than three goals per match were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Hamilton Academical have been involved. With regard to the goal weighting from that period, opposition teams scored an aggregate of 6 while Hamilton Academical got themselves 6.

Ross County

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In their last game, Ross County drew 1-1 in the Premiership match with Motherwell.

In that game, Ross County managed 51% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Ross County was Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (80'). For their opponents, Motherwell had 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Stuart McKinstry (68') was the scorer for Motherwell.

Looking at their form, and Ross County have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. Defensively, Ross County have been far from perfect. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this game, however.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 03/08/2019 tells us that Hamilton Academical have won 1 of these & Ross County 4, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

In all, 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 of them for The Accies and 10 coming from The Staggies. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 4 on 12/05/2021 and the score finished Ross County 2-1 Hamilton Academical.

That time, Ross County managed 45% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The goals were scored by Blair Spittal (28') and Charlie Lakin (70').

Hamilton Academical got 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Scott McMann (26') was the scorer.

The referee was Willie Collum.

📰 Team News: Hamilton Academical

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the sole fitness concern for the Hamilton Academical gaffer John Rankin to be concerned with from a near full-strength set of players. Lewis Spence (Knee Injury) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Ross County

Ross County boss Malky Mackay has multiple availability issues to deal with. Alex Samuel (Surgery) and Ben Paton (Cruciate Ligament Injury) will not be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Hamilton Academical are likely to find the net against this Ross County side, but a single goal possibly won’t quite be good enough.

Our tip is for both teams to score in a 1-2 victory for Ross County by the conclusion of the game. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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Lucas Pereira, 01:44 17/01/2023