In this week 18 match on Dec 24th, Livingston and Hibernian will play a match in Edinburgh in a Premiership match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 0 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. Hibernian is fresh off their 2-3 loss against Rangers. Ryan Porteous struck first for Hibernian in the 8th minute on a feed from Joe Newell, but Fashion Sakala got the equalizer for Rangers in the 15th minute But luckily in the 62nd minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Alfredo Morelos. Hibernian looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 9 points in their last 10 matches, while livingston sits at 6th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Hearts. Sean Kelly struck first for Livingston in the 55th minute, then Josh Ginnelly tied it up for Hearts in the 7th minute of the second half’s stoppage time squeezing out at least the one point for Hearts. Livingston should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 17 points in their last 10 matches.
Livingston and Hibernian last played eachother at the Tony Macaroni Arena on Saturday Aug 13th. Livingston was victorious by a score of 2 to 1. Jon Nouble scored the first goal for Livingston in the 6th minute, then in the 51st minute, Thody Elie Youan sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Nohan Kenneh.
Sean Kelly has been the most prolific scorer on Livingston in the last five matches with 3 goals. M. Kukharevych and Kevin Nisbet are the top scorers for Hibernian in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal. It’s hard to imagine having success with those stats.