St. Johnstone favourites for feisty fight facing Hamilton Academical

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Hamilton Academical have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-3-27 (win-draw-loss) from 38 matches.

St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone, who have the most conceded goals (22) in Premiership, have played 4 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). With St. Johnstone having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager T. Wright.

In their previous game, the manager T. Wright led his St. Johnstone to a defeat in the Premiership match away at St. Mirren. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at McDiarmid Park. Preceding that game was the away draw at Ross County that finished 2-2.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how St. Johnstone have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won 4 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for St. Johnstone, as the Premiership home game vs Hearts is only four days away.

The lack of attacking qualities in St. Johnstone means that they have only scored 2 goals in 4 league home games, less than half a goal per match. St. Johnstone have conceded 8 goals in these home games, a significant number.

Hamilton Academical form and stats

Playing away, Hamilton Academical have won 0 games, drawn 2 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premiership this season.

Hamilton Academical delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Hibernian (placed 10th) in their previous match; a Premiership game. Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Rangers's place.

Hamilton Academical are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

A new game in only four days for Hamilton Academical, the Premiership home match versus Aberdeen. Busy days.

Hamilton Academical are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 4 away games. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Hamilton Academical's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 10 goals in 4 travels.

Head 2 Head

St. Johnstone-Hamilton Academical H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: St. Johnstone 7 wins, Hamilton Academical 3 wins, 0 draws. 5 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

R. Cunningham 3 goals

G. Oakley 3 goals

M. O'Halloran 2 goals / 1 assists

St. Johnstone missing players

Hamilton Academical missing players