St Johnstone vs Livingston Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

St Johnstone

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St Johnstone enter this match following a 3-3 Premiership tied result vs Ross County.

In that game, St Johnstone managed 47% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For St Johnstone, the scorers were Stevie May (24', 51') and Ryan McGowan (95'). On the other side, Ross County had 14 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Yan Dhanda (54'), Jordan White (69') and Jack Baldwin (90') scored for Ross County.

Fewer than three goals per match were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where St Johnstone have been participants. Breaking down the goal weighting in that period, opposition teams scored a total of 8 while St Johnstone managed the sum of 6. That trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this game, however.

Coming into this clash, St Johnstone haven't won against Livingston in their previous 4 league matches.

Livingston

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In their previous game, Livingston drew 1-1 in the Premiership tie with Motherwell.

In that game, Livingston managed 44% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Livingston was Andrew Shinnie (83'). Motherwell got 6 shots on goal with 1 on target. Kevin van Veen (3') scored for Motherwell.

For 5 of the prior six games featuring Livingston, a notably low volume of goals have been struck between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that period works out to a mere 2.17, with the number of goals averaged by Livi Lions being 0.83.

Heading into this fixture, Livingston have not won away from home in their last 7 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 01/02/2022 shows us that St Johnstone have won 2 of them and Livingston 3, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

An aggregate of 15 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 from The Saints and 9 created by Livi Lions. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 32 on 15/04/2023 when it ended Livingston 2-0 St Johnstone.

In that match, Livingston managed 47% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Joel Nouble (23') and Stephen Kelly (38').

St Johnstone got 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was David Munro.

🗞️ Team News: St Johnstone

The St Johnstone manager Steven MacLean will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of coming into this game with a completely healthy squad to pick from.

In all likelihood, The Saints look set to line up in a 4-1-4-1 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Ross Sinclair, James Brown, Liam Gordon, Andrew Considine, Adam Montgomery, Ryan McGowan, Drey Wright, Cameron MacPherson, Cammy Ballantyne, Graham Carey and Stevie May.

ℹ️ Team News: Livingston

Due to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Livingston boss David Martindale doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

There’s a good chance that Livi Lions appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Jack Hamilton, Nicky Devlin, Luiyi de Lucas, Tom Parkes, James Penrice, Sean Kelly, Jason Holt, Steven Bradley, Scott Pittman, Stephen Kelly and Bruce Anderson.

💭 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Livingston may find it difficult to find the net against this St Johnstone outfit who we reckon will manage to score & go ahead.

We therefore see a hard-fought 1-0 victory for St Johnstone at the end of this one.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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Peter Guest, 23:47 24/05/2023