Dundee vs Motherwell — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 19 September 2026

Scottish Premiership·Saturday, 19 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 10.4 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Dundee

31%

result

Draw

28%

Motherwell

41%

top pick

Final score

2–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave a Dundee win 30.6% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Motherwell win. Expected goals 1.26–1.54 against 2–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals53%3 scored
Both teams score58%yes
Dundee clean sheet22%no
Motherwell clean sheet28%no
Dundee score 2+36%yes
Motherwell score 2+45%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.3259
1X2 Brier score0.7313
Probability on the result30.6%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (13.4%), 1–2 (8.3%), 2–1 (7.8%). It finished 2–1 — one of them.

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Dundee

3 AugAvs Celtic0–1L
8 AugHvs Aberdeen2–0W
22 AugAvs Dundee Utd2–0W
30 AugHvs Hibernian1–2L
2 SeptHvs St Johnstone1–1D

Motherwell

2 AugAvs Hibernian2–1W
9 AugHvs Falkirk0–0D
30 AugAvs St Mirren3–3D
2 SeptHvs Dundee Utd3–0W
5 SeptAvs Rangers0–1L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatDundee
(Home · 6 matches)
Motherwell
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate83.3%83.3%
Over 2.5 rate66.7%83.3%
Clean sheet16.7%0.0%
Avg goals3.003.67

Home stats use Dundee's home record; away stats use Motherwell's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.