St Mirren vs St Johnstone Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

St Mirren

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St Mirren will be wanting a better result here following the 1-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Hamilton Academical.

In that game, St Mirren had 56% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for St Mirren was Jamie McGrath (71'). Hamilton Academical had 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Ross Callachan (28') and David Moyo (57') scored for Hamilton Academical.

It’s not been often in recent times that St Mirren have kept a clean sheet. In fact, The Buddies have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals on the way. Putting that to one side, we will just have to wait and see whether the trend will be maintained in this match.

St Johnstone

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St Johnstone will go into this game following a 0-1 Premiership win as they beat Hibernian in their last game.

In that game, St Johnstone had 41% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for St Johnstone was Glenn Middleton (22'). For their opponents, Hibernian had 8 shots at goal with 2 on target.

In 6 of the past six clashes involving St Johnstone, a comparatively low number of goals have been struck between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game in that period is a paltry 1.5, with the number of goals averaged by The Saints equalling 1.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 19/10/2019, there has been little between the sides with St Mirren winning 2 of those games, St Johnstone 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 9 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 from The Buddies and 4 netted by The Saints. That’s an average goals per game of 1.5.

🗞️ Team News: St Mirren

St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all before this clash owing to a fully healthy squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: St Johnstone

Owing to a fully injury-free squad available to select from, St Johnstone boss Callum Davidson doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of before this game.

✨ Prediction

We think that St Mirren might need a bit of good fortune to breach the defence of this St Johnstone outfit who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

We’ve gone for a good battle with a 0-1 win for St Johnstone when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see what happens.

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Victor Martins, 23:21 04/05/2021