📊 Form Guide

St Johnstone

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St Johnstone will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Celtic.

In that game, St Johnstone managed 26% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for St Johnstone was Connor Smith (81'). Celtic got 21 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Kyogo Furuhashi (40'), Nicolas Kühn (46') and James Forrest (68') scored for Celtic.

It’s been seldom in recent games that St Johnstone have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that St Johnstone have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 11 goals on the way.

Looking at the pre-match facts, St Johnstone:

• have not registered a win against Dundee in their last 5 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 5 matches in the league. That's never good.

Dundee

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Dundee go into this match following on from a 1-0 Premiership win in the defeat of Aberdeen in their previous game.

In that game, Dundee had 54% possession and 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Dundee was Luke McCowan (66'). On the other side, Aberdeen got 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Dundee have bagged the sum of 9 goals. Dundee have additionally got on the scoresheet on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have seen 12 goals go into their own net. That kind of trend might not be carried forward here, of course.

Their past results show that Dundee:

• are winless against St Johnstone in games played away from home for the previous 6 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• remain undefeated by St Johnstone in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 02/10/2021 tells us that St Johnstone have won 1 of these & Dundee 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 from The Saints and 7 created by The Dark Blues. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Premiership match day 22 on 11/02/2024 which ended up with the score at Dundee 2-1 St Johnstone.

In that game, Dundee managed 58% possession and 26 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Luke McCowan (75') and Jordan McGhee (89').

At the other end, St Johnstone had 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Matt Smith (9') was the scorer.

The referee was David Munro.

📰 Team News: St Johnstone

The St Johnstone manager Craig Levein will be grateful not to have any fitness worries at all coming into this match with a completely healthy group available to select from.

It’s our opinion that The Saints will probably use the 3-5-2 formation for this game and select Dimitar Mitov, Ryan McGowan, Liam Gordon, Andrew Considine, David Keltjens, Maksym Kucheryavyi, Daniel Phillips, Matt Smith, Luke Robinson, Adama Sidibeh and Graham Carey.

📰 Team News: Dundee

From a largely healthy squad, there is only the sole fitness worry for the Dundee boss Tony Docherty to contend with. Owen Beck (Groin problems) won’t be in action.

It’s our belief that The Dark Blues could decide to utilise a 3-5-2 formation, settling for Jon McCracken, J. Antonio Portales, Joe Shaughnessy, Aaron Donnelly, Dara Costelloe, Lyall Cameron, Mohamad Sylla, Luke McCowan, Owen Dodgson, Curtis Main and Scott Tiffoney.

🧠 Prediction

We envisage that Dundee and St Johnstone could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore see a 1-1 draw when all is said and done.

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Andre Moura, 14:05 30/03/2024