St. Johnstone vs St. Mirren: Match guide and preview

Competition: Scotland Premiership
Date: on 27.mars
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10673 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, St. Johnstone holding 9th place and St. Mirren lying 9th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone have played 14 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-4-6 (wins-draws-losses). Three consecutive losses here at McDiarmid Park is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on St. Johnstone to get some points in this home game.

The fans are hoping that St. Johnstone will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Premiership game against Livingston. Before that game, the home loss against Hibernian with the scoreline 1-2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for St. Johnstone as they are travelling to their away game against Motherwell in the Premiership. That match is two days after this one.

The St. Johnstone fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 15 in 14 matches. St. Johnstone's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 20 times.

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St. Mirren form and stats

The hunting on away grounds hasn’t been very fruitful for St. Mirren, who have the most conceded goals (34) away in Premiership, so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-9 (win-draw-lose). Two points from the last two away games for St. Mirren, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

The manager O. Kearney was unhappy after their last game, a Premiership match played at their home ground McDiarmid Park. St. Mirren suffered a 0-1 loss to Kilmarnock. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Livingston.

After this away game St. Mirren return home for a Premiership game against Dundee. That game is only two sleeps after this.

The attacking power of St. Mirren when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored in 14 matches. St. Mirren have conceded 34 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

St. Mirren - St. Johnstone 0-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): St. Johnstone won 7 games, 0 matches ended with a draw and St. Mirren has 3 wins.

Top Goalscorers

M. Kennedy
5 goals
S. Jackson
5 goals
B. Alston
4 goals / 1 assists

St. Johnstone missing players

St. Mirren missing players

St. Johnstone St. Mirren
Total Home Statistic Away Total
29 14 Played 14 29
29 15 Scored 11 21
39 20 Conceded 34 56
93% 93% Over 0.5 100% 97%
72% 79% Over 1.5 93% 79%
38% 43% Over 2.5 64% 52%
17% 21% Over 3.5 50% 31%
7% 7% Over 4.5 14% 7%
38% 43% Both teams to score 57% 48%
41% 36% Clean Sheet 7% 14%
28% 29% Failed To Score 36% 41%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Celtic 30 22 4 4 67 16 15 14 1 0 41 5 15 8 3 4 26 11 51 70
2 Rangers 30 17 9 4 66 22 15 10 4 1 37 7 15 7 5 3 29 15 44 60
3 Aberdeen 30 15 7 8 46 34 16 7 4 5 28 22 14 8 3 3 18 12 12 52
4 Kilmarnock 30 14 9 7 39 28 14 8 2 4 22 12 16 6 7 3 17 16 11 51
5 Hearts 30 14 5 11 35 35 15 7 4 4 18 11 15 7 1 7 17 24 0 47
6 Hibernian 30 12 9 9 45 32 15 6 6 3 26 13 15 6 3 6 19 19 13 45
7 Motherwell 30 12 4 14 33 41 14 6 3 5 18 11 16 6 1 9 15 30 -8 40
8 Livingston 30 10 8 12 32 31 15 9 2 4 24 11 15 1 6 8 8 20 1 38
9 St. Johnstone 29 11 5 13 29 39 14 4 4 6 15 20 15 7 1 7 14 19 -10 38
10 Hamilton Academical 30 7 3 20 20 61 15 4 2 9 13 29 15 3 1 11 7 32 -41 24
11 Dundee 30 4 6 20 24 62 16 1 4 11 12 30 14 3 2 9 12 32 -38 18
12 St. Mirren 29 4 5 20 21 56 15 3 1 11 10 22 14 1 4 9 11 34 -35 17

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