Premiership information and pre-match guide: Hibernian moderate expected to outplay St. Johnstone

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 05.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Easter Road Stadium (20421 seats)

Hibernian have claimed 22 of their 36 in total here in familiar surroundings. What will happen against St. Johnstone?

Insights:
  • Hibernian have the most matches under the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (18) in Premiership

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Hibernian form and stats

Hibernian have played 15 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-4-5 (wins-draws-losses).

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 192 minutes without scoring a league goal. Doyle-Hayes was the last player to find the net. Hibernian are confident in defense, having played 303 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

An away draw last time out for Hibernian, facing Dundee in a game that ended 0-0. Midfielder Hayes was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.64 (out of ten) in that game. Hayes hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 49 successful passes (of 53 total).

Before that, Hibernian drew at home versus Celtic.

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

Hibernian has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. Hibernian are not conceding a lot of goals here at Easter Road Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 15 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone have only collected 12 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 3-3-8 (14 played).

St. Johnstone's previous game was their home loss versus Rangers (0-1). Defender Brown was the best team player with a rating of 7.11. Brown won 6 of 7 duels.

Preceding that game, the 1-3 loss visiting Ross County's place.

Johnstone are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and two defeats. From a total of four matches.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from St. Johnstone's away games in the league this season with only 7 goals from 14 matches. As opposed to that, Johnstone have seen the ball go into their own net 17 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The last head to head meeting ended St. Johnstone - Hibernian 1-2, earlier this season. Bryson (St. Johnstone) was sent off by the referee when these teams met earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Hibernian four wins, two draws and St. Johnstone four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
5 goals
St. JohnstoneC. Hendry
C. Hendry
4 goals
St. JohnstoneC. Kane
C. Kane
3 goals

Hibernian missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Hibernian St. Johnstone
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 15 4 Played P 4 14 29
9 6 2 Won W 1 3 5
9 4 1 Drew D 1 3 8
11 5 1 Lost L 2 8 16
28 16 4 Scored S 2 7 18
30 14 3 Conceded C 5 17 36
83% 87% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 86% 83%
55% 53% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 57% 59%
34% 33% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 21% 34%
21% 20% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 7% 10%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
34% 27% 25% BTTS BTTS 25% 29% 41%
38% 53% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 29% 24%
45% 33% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 57% 52%
 
5.5 5.9 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 4.2 4.7
5 4.8 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.5 5.6
2.2 1.8 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.4 2.5
7 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
11.2 11.5 11.8 Shots (avg) S ( 10.2 9.1 9
3.5 3.5 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.6 2.6
27% 31% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 19% 24%
 
10.7 10.4 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9 14.2 14.1
3.7 3.7 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 4.4 4.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals at home as St. Johnstone have scored away.
  • Hibernian have the most matches under the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (18) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (7) away in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Premiership

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 29 22 4 3 62 17 14 12 2 0 33 4 15 10 2 3 29 13 45 70
2 Rangers 29 20 7 2 59 24 15 11 4 0 32 9 14 9 3 2 27 15 35 67
3 Hearts 29 14 7 8 40 29 15 9 3 3 26 12 14 5 4 5 14 17 11 49
4 Livingston 29 10 7 12 32 35 14 5 3 6 15 16 15 5 4 6 17 19 -3 37
5 Hibernian 29 9 9 11 28 30 15 6 4 5 16 14 14 3 5 6 12 16 -2 36
6 Dundee United 29 9 8 12 24 31 14 7 1 6 13 15 15 2 7 6 11 16 -7 35
7 Motherwell 29 9 8 12 30 43 15 7 3 5 18 21 14 2 5 7 12 22 -13 35
8 Ross County 29 8 9 12 42 47 14 4 6 4 25 24 15 4 3 8 17 23 -5 33
9 St. Mirren 28 7 12 9 26 39 14 3 7 4 11 13 14 4 5 5 15 26 -13 33
10 Aberdeen 29 8 8 13 33 37 14 6 4 4 20 15 15 2 4 9 13 22 -4 32
11 St. Johnstone 29 5 8 16 18 36 15 2 5 8 11 19 14 3 3 8 7 17 -18 23
12 Dundee 28 5 7 16 23 49 14 3 5 6 13 22 14 2 2 10 10 27 -26 22

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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.