St. Johnstone will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Motherwell.
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.
St. Johnstone form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for St. Johnstone at their home stadium (McDiarmid Park) is 3 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats.
St. Johnstone are returning here after visiting Ayr United in a Scottish Cup game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. C. Hendry scored the goal(s). In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Aberdeen.
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 four of these, drawn three and lost two.
The manager T. Wright will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Ross County in only three days.
St. Johnstone has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 23 goals have been conceded.
Motherwell form and stats
The visitors are W7-D1-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Motherwell aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 315 league minutes without a goal. L. Donnelly was the last player to find the net.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to St. Mirren (placed 10th) in their previous outing. The Scottish Cup match ended in a draw 1-1. A loss against Celtic was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Motherwell in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Motherwell, three draws and three defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Motherwell are hosting St. Mirren in the Premiership only three days away.
Motherwell have scored 16 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. 12 goals have been conceded by Motherwell in these games.
Head 2 Head
St. Johnstone and Motherwell have met before this season: Motherwell - St. Johnstone 4-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): St. Johnstone four wins, one draw and Motherwell five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Donnelly 6 goals |  C. Long 5 goals |   A. McCann 4 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Motherwell missing players
| St. Johnstone | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 22 | 14 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 16 | 34 |
| 42 | 23 | 8 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 32 |
| 92% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 92% | 92% |
| 62% | 69% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 58% | 72% |
| 46% | 54% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 50% | 60% |
| 38% | 38% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 25% | 24% |
| 17% | 23% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 8% |
| 42% | 54% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 42% | 40% |
| 25% | 15% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 42% | 40% |
| 42% | 38% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 28% |
| 5 | 5.3 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 4.8 | 4.1 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| 1.7 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 232 | 138 | 24 | Total Shots | T S | 24 | 94 | 249 |
| 87 | 54 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 40 | 95 |
| 25% | 26% | 9% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 40% | 36% |
- St. Johnstone has the fewest scored goals in the first half (6)
- St. Johnstone has the most conceded goals in the first half (22)
- St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 25 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 72 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 9 | 57 | 67 |
| 2 | Rangers | 24 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 59 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 45 | 60 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 25 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 34 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 41 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 25 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 38 |
| 5 | Livingston | 25 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 3 | 34 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 25 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 34 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 23 | -7 | 30 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 22 | -7 | 29 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 22 | 42 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 19 | -20 | 27 |
| 9 | Ross County | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 50 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 29 | -25 | 25 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 25 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 20 | -13 | 22 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 25 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 45 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 | -20 | 19 |
| 12 | Hearts | 25 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 25 | 42 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -17 | 18 |