St Mirren vs Motherwell — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 30 August 2026

Scottish Premiership·Sunday, 30 August 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 6.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

St Mirren

36%

top pick

Draw

29%

result

Motherwell

35%

Final score

3–3

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 29.3% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a St Mirren win. Expected goals 1.25–1.25 against 3–3 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals46%6 scored
Both teams score52%yes
St Mirren clean sheet29%no
Motherwell clean sheet28%no
St Mirren score 2+36%yes
Motherwell score 2+35%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1250
1X2 Brier score0.7500
Probability on the result29.3%

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 (14.0%), 1–0 (9.6%), 0–0 (9.3%). It finished 3–3.

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St Mirren

1 AugAvs Falkirk2–0W
8 AugHvs St Johnstone1–0W
30 AugHvs Motherwell3–3D
2 SeptAvs Kilmarnock1–0W
5 SeptHvs Celtic1–2L

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

StatSt Mirren
(Home · 4 matches)
Motherwell
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate50.0%75.0%
Over 2.5 rate75.0%75.0%
Clean sheet25.0%0.0%
Avg goals3.253.25

Home stats use St Mirren'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.