📊 Form Guide

Dundee

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Dundee head into this match following on from a 0-0 Premiership stalemate versus St Mirren.

In that game, Dundee managed 60% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. St Mirren got 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Steven Pressley's Dundee have celebrated scoring a sum total of 6 times over their last six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those same games is 6.

Going into this encounter, Dundee are winless against Motherwell in their last 4 league games.

Motherwell

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Motherwell will go into the meeting after a 0-2 Premiership win to beat Livingston in their last match.

In that match, Motherwell managed 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Motherwell was Tawanda Maswanhise (5', 28'). For their opponents, Livingston had 4 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

A series of outstanding displays by the Motherwell defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 2 from their previous 6 clashes in total. In that period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 10. In any event, time will tell whether such a trend shall be maintained in this upcoming game or not.

Their past results show that Motherwell:

• remain undefeated by Dundee in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 19/10/2024 shows us that Dundee have won 2 of these games & Motherwell 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

A total of 15 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 for The Dark Blues and 7 coming from The Steelmen. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 18 on 20/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Motherwell 1-0 Dundee.

On that day, Motherwell had 60% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. The scorer was Callum Slattery (82').

Dundee got 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Matthew MacDermid.

📋 Team News: Dundee

In all likelihood, The Dark Blues should opt for a 4-1-4-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Jon McCracken, Ryan Astley, Bradley Halliday, Luke Graham, Drey Wright, Ethan Hamilton, Cameron Congreve, Yan Dhanda, Joel Cotterill, Tony Yogane and Simon Murray.

📋 Team News: Motherwell

Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou has a number of players out of action. Aston Oxborough (Hand injury) and Regan Charles-Cook (Ankle injury) miss out here.

We reckon that The Steelmen might play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Calum Ward, Tom Sparrow, Paul McGinn, Stephen O'Donnell, John Koutroumbis, Oscar Priestman, Lukas Fadinger, Ibrahim Said, Callum Slattery, Elijah Just and Tawanda Maswanhise.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Dundee will likely be able to put one past this Motherwell team, although just one goal isn’t likely to be enough to avoid a loss.

We can see a close game with a 1-2 victory for Motherwell when all is said and done. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Renata Leite, 15:04 04/02/2026