Premiership prediction and preview: Hibernian modest favorites to beat St. Johnstone

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 01.May
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Easter Road Stadium (20421 seats)

Hibernian will battle it out with St. Johnstone in this Premiership game. All you need to know about the match can be found here!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Hibernian form and stats

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hibernian handle that role? We have found eleven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, four draws and one defeat.

Last season, Hibernian's league statistics were 9 wins, 10 draws and 11 losses, resulting in a 6th position in the Premiership. Over these 30 matches they scored 42 goals and conceded 49. Playing at home last season Hibernian managed 5-7-3 (win-draw-lost) with 26 goals and 22 conceded.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

We have checked recent matches where Johnstone have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were one victory, zero draws and three defeats.

Let's have a look at how St. Johnstone performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 12 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 28 and conceded 46 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 6 and lost 4 with 9/20 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: St. Johnstone - Hibernian 1-0. Hibernian-St. Johnstone H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hibernian three wins, St. Johnstone three wins, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
14 goals
HibernianM. Boyle
M. Boyle
12 goals
HibernianC. Doidge
C. Doidge
6 goals

Hibernian missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Hibernian St. Johnstone
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
35 17 0 Played P 0 17 35
17 7 0 Won W 0 5 10
8 5 0 Drew D 0 6 11
10 5 0 Lost L 0 6 14
47 21 0 Scored S 0 26 35
34 20 0 Conceded C 0 27 42
94% 94% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 91%
71% 76% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 88% 60%
43% 41% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 59% 37%
17% 24% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 14%
6% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 9%
37% 41% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 71% 46%
37% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 6% 26%
31% 35% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 24% 37%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 1.7
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
11.3 10.9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11.7 11.5
4.1 4.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.9 3.1
33% 28% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 39% 32%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.