Betting preview: St. Johnstone vs St. Mirren should be interesting

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 03.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

Look at this appealing game in the Premiership. St. Johnstone is in the 10th place from playing five games. They welcome St. Mirren who are placed 6th from five matches.

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have lost all their home matches so far.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their away matches so far.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

The Premiership results at home this season for St. Johnstone are 0-0-2 (wins-draws-losses). St. Johnstone has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Davidson and the players.

In their previous game, the manager Davidson led his St. Johnstone to a defeat away at Hearts. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at McDiarmid Park. Considine was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.63 out of 10. The defender Considine scored one goal and won 6 of 10 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Aberdeen (0-1).

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 10 games. Johnstone has won 3 of these, drawn 3 and lost 4.

St. Johnstone has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Things could have gone better for St. Mirren in their Premiership away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. St. Mirren goalkeeper Trevor Carson is eager to challenge this, with his 273 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Baccus scored in Mirren's previous match, the home game against Hibernian that ended 1-0. Midfielder Strain was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.83. Strain served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Prior to that result St. Mirren won their away game at Dundee United. The scoreline was 3-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by St. Mirren in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Mirren, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

4 goals so far away for St. Mirren, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 4. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

St. Mirren have won or drawn the last 4 games (2-2-0) facing St. Johnstone.

The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being ill-tempered, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

St. MirrenC. Main
C. Main
2 goals
St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
1 goals
St. JohnstoneA. Considine
A. Considine
1 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

St. Mirren missing players

St. Johnstone St. Mirren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 1 2 5
1 0 0 Won W 1 1 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 2
4 0 0 Scored S 3 4 6
10 2 1 Conceded C 0 4 5
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 40%
60% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 40%
40% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 20%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 20%
40% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 20%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 60%
60% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
3.8 4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5.5 5.8
6 7 9 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5 5.4
3.2 3.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.4
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
5.2 5 4 Shots (avg) S ( 12 7 9.6
2.4 1.5 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.5 3
33% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 57% 40%
 
16.6 14.5 13 Shots against (avg) S A 12 8.5 8.6
4.2 3 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.5 2.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of St. Mirren's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • St. Johnstone have failed to score a single goal at home.
  • St. Johnstone have lost all their home matches so far.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • St. Mirren haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 5 5 0 0 21 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 3 3 0 0 17 1 20 15
2 Rangers 5 4 1 0 14 3 3 3 0 0 10 0 2 1 1 0 4 3 11 13
3 Hearts 5 3 1 1 10 7 3 3 0 0 9 4 2 0 1 1 1 3 3 10
4 Aberdeen 5 3 0 2 12 6 3 2 0 1 11 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 6 9
5 Motherwell 5 3 0 2 7 6 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 2 0 1 5 4 1 9
6 St. Mirren 5 3 0 2 6 5 3 2 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 4 4 1 9
7 Livingston 5 2 0 3 4 9 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 1 0 2 1 6 -5 6
8 Hibernian 5 1 2 2 5 6 2 0 2 0 3 3 3 1 0 2 2 3 -1 5
9 Kilmarnock 5 1 1 3 3 10 3 1 1 1 3 7 2 0 0 2 0 3 -7 4
10 St. Johnstone 5 1 0 4 4 10 2 0 0 2 0 2 3 1 0 2 4 8 -6 3
11 Ross County 5 1 0 4 3 10 2 1 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 3 1 7 -7 3
12 Dundee United 5 0 1 4 2 18 3 0 0 3 0 13 2 0 1 1 2 5 -16 1

Read more about Premiership

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.