📊 Form Guide

Dundee

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Dundee will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 1-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Celtic.

In that match, Dundee managed 32% possession and 11 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Dundee was Antonio Portales (74'). On the other side, Celtic had 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. James Forrest (30', 67') was the scorer for Celtic.

Tony Docherty's Dundee have scored a sum total of 6 times in their last six outings. The tally of goals that have been scored against them in those games is 6.

Going into this contest, Dundee are without a win at home for the past 3 league matches.

St Mirren

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Rangers in Premiership action, St Mirren and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, St Mirren had 33% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. For St Mirren, goals were scored by James Bolton (32' Own goal) and Mikael Mandron (37'). At the other end, Rangers had 20 shots at goal with 6 on target. Cyriel Dessers (74') scored for Rangers.

St Mirren have been good when going forward of late, scoring 7 goals in their last 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that St Mirren have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 6 of those same games.

Ahead of this meeting, St Mirren are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 09/03/2022 tells us that Dundee have won 1 of these games and St Mirren 4, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A sum of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 from The Dark Blues and 7 belonging to The Buddies. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 25 on 07/02/2024 when it ended St Mirren 2-0 Dundee.

On that day, St Mirren had 51% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorers were Mikael Mandron (73') and Toyosi Olusanya (91').

At the other end, Dundee had 5 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Steven McLean.

🗞️ Team News: Dundee

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Dundee boss Tony Docherty to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group. Joe Shaughnessy (Knee injury) is out of contention.

In our view, The Dark Blues will possibly use a 4-5-1 formation in the match, handing starts to Jon McCracken, Jordan McGhee, J. Antonio Portales, Ricki Lamie, Owen Dodgson, Josh Mulligan, Malachi Boateng, Mohamad Sylla, Luke McCowan, Scott Tiffoney and Amadou Bakayoko.

ℹ️ Team News: St Mirren

Owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson does not have any fitness concerns to report coming into this game.

There’s a good chance that The Buddies will likely make use of a 3-4-3 formation, choosing Zach Hemming, Marcus Fraser, Alexandros Gogic, James Bolton, Ryan Strain, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Mark O'Hara, Scott Tanser, Conor McMenamin, Mikael Mandron and Greg Kiltie.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that St Mirren and Dundee may both find scoring difficult here.

It will be interesting to see how this one goes, and it’s not easy to pick a clear winner. We’re therefore predicting a tight encounter with a 0-0 draw at the end of this game.

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Andre Moura, 13:09 04/05/2024