Stenhousemuir vs Livingston Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Stenhousemuir

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Stenhousemuir go into this game coming off the back of a 1-1 League Two tied result versus East Fife.

The only scorer from Stenhousemuir was Matty Yates (61'). Alan Trouten (15') scored for East Fife.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Stenhousemuir have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Stenhousemuir have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 10 goals on the way. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be continued here, though.

Livingston

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Livingston go into this game after a 2-4 Premiership win to defeat St Johnstone in their previous match.

In that game, Livingston had 45% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For Livingston, the goals were scored by Stephen Kelly (8', 15') and James Penrice (39', 81'). At the other end, St Johnstone had 14 shots at goal with 5 on target. Jamie Murphy (65') and Connor McLennan (67') scored for St Johnstone.

The numbers tell their own story, and Livingston have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals overall. In defence, Livingston certainly have room for improvement.

↔️ Head to head

A study of past results between these clubs stretching back to 09/04/2011 reveals that these encounters have been miserable for Stenhousemuir. They have not been able to come away with any wins at all whereas Livingston have been too good for them, getting wins in 100% of those games where they have faced each other.

In all, 18 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 1 for The Warriors and 17 being from Livi Lions. The average goals per game has been 3.

ℹ️ Team News: Stenhousemuir

The Stenhousemuir boss Gary Naysmith has no fitness concerns at all before this match thanks to a fully injury-free squad to pick from.

📋 Team News: Livingston

Thanks to a largely full-strength group, there is just the sole fitness problem for the Livingston boss David Martindale to be concerned about. Tom Parkes (Knee Injury) misses out for this game.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Stenhousemuir should have enough to get a goal against this Livingston lineup, although just one goal might not be enough.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning score for Livingston after 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 01:44 17/01/2023