Livingston will take to the pitch with visiting side Ross County at The Tony Macaroni Arena in the Premiership tie on Saturday.
View all of the Livingston v Ross County predictions, poll and stats below (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
Livingston
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Livingston will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 4-2 Premiership losing effort in their last game against Hearts.
In that game, Livingston had 38% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Livingston was Stephen Kelly (10', 22'). For their opponents, Hearts got 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Jorge Grant (29'), Yutaro Oda (32'), Cammy Devlin (40') and Lawrence Shankland (45') scored for Hearts.
Matches involving Livingston have proved to be absorbing encounters recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 20 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 5 of those belonging to Livingston. We will have to find out if that trend will be sustained in this game.
Ross County
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Ross County will go into the meeting following on from a 3-2 Premiership win to defeat Rangers in their previous match.
In that match, Ross County managed 33% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Ross County, the goalscorers were Jack Baldwin (15' Own goal), Simon Murray (47'), George Harmon (50') and Josh Sims (69'). At the other end, Rangers got 27 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. James Tavernier (89') scored for Rangers.
Looking at their form, and Ross County have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 10 goals in total. Defensively, Ross County seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.
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Head to head
Checking out their prior head to head duels stretching back to 07/01/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with Livingston winning 2 of those games, Ross County 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.
A combined sum of 18 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from Livi Lions and 9 coming from The Staggies. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.
The last league contest between these sides was Premiership match day 27 on 24/02/2024 when it finished Ross County 3-2 Livingston.
In that match, Ross County managed 52% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Eamonn Brophy (21', 27') and Josh Sims (92').
Livingston had 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Bruce Anderson (47', 86') was the scorer.
The match was refereed by David Dickinson.
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Team News: Livingston
The Livingston manager David Martindale will be thankful to have no fitness concerns at all coming into this clash with a completely injury-free squad to pick from.
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Team News: Ross County
Out of a mainly healthy group, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Ross County manager Don Cowie to be concerned with. Ross Callachan (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game.
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Prediction
We envisage that Ross County and Livingston could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.
Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. That’s why we have predicted a tight encounter with a 1-1 score when the referee blows the full-time whistle.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins,
19:26 26/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Livingston
Formed: 1943
Stadium: The Tony Macaroni Arena (9,713)
Captain: Michael Devlin
Chairman: John Ward
Manager: David Martindale
Competitions: Premiership position 12
🔑 Star Man: Sean Kelly
Mostly used in the Central Defensive Midfielder position, Sean Kelly was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Having made his senior debut playing for East Stirlingshire in the 2012 - 2013 season, the skilful Midfielder has bagged 3 league goals in this Premiership 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 18 appearances.