St. Johnstone will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 18 points behind Hibernian.
- St. Johnstone have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Premiership
- Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
The hosts St. Johnstone saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Premiership. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Hamilton Academical.
St. Johnstone form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. St. Johnstone, who have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Premiership, have only managed 3 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses from their games here at McDiarmid Park.
St. Johnstone drew their last game, 1-1 away at Hamilton Academical (placed 12th). Before that match, a League Cup win away at Livingston.
This is expected to be a close game, with St. Johnstone perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Johnstone as a small favourite), we find nine games. St. Johnstone has won five of these, drawn one and lost three.
The lack of attacking qualities in Johnstone means that they have only scored 6 goals in 14 league home games, less than half a goal per match. St. Johnstone are not conceding a lot of goals here at McDiarmid Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 14 matches.
Hibernian form and stats
Hibernian's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Hibernian collect 29 points from their 14 away matches in the Premiership. 9 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 3 defeats). Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Hibernian are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Home advantage was not enough for Hibernian in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Motherwell, 0-2. That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Hamilton Academical.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Hibernian in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Hibernian, one draw and three defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Hibernian's attacking play in away games, having scored 22 goals in 14 league matches away. Hibernian are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 9 times in 14 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Hibernian - Johnstone 2-2. St. Johnstone-Hibernian H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Johnstone three wins, Hibernian three wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Nisbet 11 goals |  M. Boyle 10 goals |   S. May 5 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Hibernian missing players
| St. Johnstone | Hibernian | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 14 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 14 | 30 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 13 | 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 32 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 12 | 22 | 41 |
| 40 | 13 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 28 |
| 90% | 79% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 65% | 36% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 64% | 70% |
| 42% | 21% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 43% | 40% |
| 16% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 14% | 20% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 7% | 7% |
| 48% | 21% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 21% | 30% |
| 23% | 43% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 57% | 43% |
| 39% | 57% | 80% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.4 | 10.9 | 7.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.9 | 11.3 |
| 3 | 1.9 | 1.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 34% | 23% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 52% | 42% | 34% |
- Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals away as St. Johnstone have scored home.
- St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the most dropped points from leading position (15) 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 | Rangers | 31 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 74 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 65 | 85 |
| 2 | Celtic | 31 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 65 | 23 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 13 | 42 | 67 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 41 | 28 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 52 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 32 | 30 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 48 |
| 5 | Livingston | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 36 | 36 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 40 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 31 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 34 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 13 | -5 | 39 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 31 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 28 | 43 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 23 | -15 | 35 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 31 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 32 | 40 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 27 | -8 | 34 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 31 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 46 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 18 | -18 | 32 |
| 10 | Ross County | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 54 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 27 | -32 | 26 |
| 11 | Kilmarnock | 31 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 27 | 43 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 22 | -16 | 25 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 57 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 33 | -28 | 25 |