Can St. Johnstone beat St. Mirren in McDiarmid Park clash?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 06.November
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

St. Johnstone have some work to do from their 9th position, and the task starts against St. Mirren. Read more!

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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St. Johnstone form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. St. Johnstone have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses from their games here at McDiarmid Park.

Happy days for Johnstone in their previous game, a Premiership match away at Dundee United (placed 4th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Johnstone goalkeeper Zander Clark did an outstanding job against Dundee United with seven saves, so vital to securing the victory. Goalkeeper Zander Clark got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.85 out of ten. Clark stopped the opponent with seven saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, St. Johnstone drew at home versus Hearts.

St. Johnstone has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.

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St. Mirren form and stats

2-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for St. Mirren in their Premiership matches away.

Home advantage was not enough for Mirren in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Dundee, 0-1. Midfielder Scott Tanser was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.44. Tanser hit the woodwork once and hit five key passes.

A 2-2 draw at Motherwell's stadium before that.

The travelling fans enjoy Mirren's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. For Mirren, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

St. Mirren - St. Johnstone 0-0 was the outcome when this pair of contenders formerly did battle, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Johnstone four wins, four draws and St. Mirren two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. MirrenE. Brophy
E. Brophy
5 goals
St. MirrenC. Ronan
C. Ronan
3 goals
JohnstoneC. Kane
C. Kane
2 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

St. Mirren missing players

St. Johnstone St. Mirren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
12 6 1 Played P 3 6 12
3 1 0 Won W 2 2 3
4 2 1 Drew D 1 3 5
5 3 0 Lost L 0 1 4
8 6 1 Scored S 6 10 15
12 9 1 Conceded C 4 14 21
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 83%
50% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 83% 67%
25% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 83% 67%
8% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 83% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 33% 25%
33% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 58%
33% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 17% 25%
50% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 33%
 
5.3 7 8 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.8 5.1
5.1 4.8 6 Corners against (avg) C A 7 8 5.8
2.7 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10 11.5 13 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 12.5 12.5
2.6 3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 4.8 4.2
26% 33% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 46% 34% 29%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Mirren have the most conceded goals (14) away in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the most scored goals (10) away in Premiership
  • St. Mirren haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Rangers 11 7 3 1 19 10 6 3 3 0 10 5 5 4 0 1 9 5 9 24
2 Celtic 12 7 2 3 26 7 6 4 2 0 18 1 6 3 0 3 8 6 19 23
3 Hearts 12 5 6 1 18 10 6 3 3 0 9 3 6 2 3 1 9 7 8 21
4 Dundee United 12 6 3 3 11 8 6 4 0 2 5 4 6 2 3 1 6 4 3 21
5 Hibernian 11 4 3 4 15 15 6 3 1 2 9 8 5 1 2 2 6 7 0 15
6 Aberdeen 12 4 3 5 15 16 6 3 1 2 7 5 6 1 2 3 8 11 -1 15
7 Motherwell 11 4 3 4 14 15 6 3 1 2 9 8 5 1 2 2 5 7 -1 15
8 St. Mirren 12 3 5 4 15 21 6 1 2 3 5 7 6 2 3 1 10 14 -6 14
9 St. Johnstone 12 3 4 5 8 12 6 1 2 3 6 9 6 2 2 2 2 3 -4 13
10 Livingston 12 3 3 6 10 16 5 1 1 3 4 6 7 2 2 3 6 10 -6 12
11 Dundee 12 2 4 6 9 23 6 1 3 2 6 11 6 1 1 4 3 12 -14 10
12 Ross County 11 1 3 7 15 22 5 0 2 3 8 12 6 1 1 4 7 10 -7 6

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.