St Johnstone vs Hibernian Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

St Johnstone

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St Johnstone will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 0-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Kilmarnock.

In that match, St Johnstone had 54% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, Kilmarnock got 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Joe Wright (23') and Marley Watkins (81') scored for Kilmarnock.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where St Johnstone have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, St Johnstone have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals on the way.

Hibernian

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In the game prior to this, Hibernian drew 1-1 in the Premiership match with Motherwell.

In that match, Hibernian had 49% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Hibernian was Myziane Maolida (65'). On the other side, Motherwell had 8 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Shane Blaney (94') scored for Motherwell.

Looking at their form, and Hibernian have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 10 goals in all. Defensively, Hibernian certainly have room for improvement. That sort of pattern might not be continued here, though.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 30/07/2022 shows that St Johnstone have won 3 of them and Hibernian 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A combined total of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 6 of them from The Saints and 6 for The Hibees. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league match between the two was Premiership match day 32 on 06/04/2024 when it finished Hibernian 1-2 St Johnstone.

In that game, Hibernian managed 71% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Chris Cadden (56').

St Johnstone had 6 shots on goal with 2 on target. Adama Sidibeh (49') and Tony Gallacher (81') scored.

The match was refereed by Grant Irvine.

ℹ️ Team News: St Johnstone

The St Johnstone boss Craig Levein does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash with a fully healthy squad available to select from.

📰 Team News: Hibernian

In an otherwise healthy group of players, there is just the sole fitness worry for the Hibernian manager Nick Montgomery to contend with. Jake Doyle-Hayes (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that St Johnstone will have to perform well to score against this Hibernian team who will likely do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re going for a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 winning score for Hibernian at the end of this game.

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Renata Leite, 20:09 25/04/2024