Evenly matched teams: St. Mirren vs Hibernian match preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Smisa Stadium

A look at the Premiership standings shows that this is top- versus mid-table, but there's more to this game than that. Check out our St. Mirren - Hibernian preview!

Insights:
  • Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for St. Mirren and Hibernian.

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St. Mirren form and stats

St. Mirren are steadily winning Premiership games and points here at The Smisa Stadium. 7 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 12 games. In general it's been a long time since Mirren tasted defeat here at The Smisa Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last eleven home games in the league.

A strong away win for St. Mirren against Aberdeen the last match, as Main (2) and Gallagher were on target. The striker Main was named "man of the match" for St. Mirren with a rating of 8.24/10. Main scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Motherwell.

Mirren has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. St. Mirren are not conceding a lot of goals here at The Smisa Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 12 matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

There's been little loot from Hibernian's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 12 away games in the Premiership. Hibernian only have 3 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 1 draw.

Hibernian are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Ross County (placed 10th). Midfielder Youan was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.45. Youan scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Before that, Hibernian secured a home win against Aberdeen with the score 6-0.

Take note that 11 of this side's 14 most recent league fixtures have ended with at least three goals.

It's early days yet, but Hibernian has scored 12 and conceded 24 goals from their travels in the league so far (12 games).

Head 2 Head

Mirren and Hibernian have played each other before this season: Hibernian - St. Mirren 3-0. Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: St. Mirren won two, Hibernian were winners in five and we saw three draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
8 goals
HibernianJ. Campbell
J. Campbell
7 goals
St. MirrenC. Main
C. Main
6 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Hibernian missing players

St. Mirren Hibernian
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 12 3 Played P 3 12 24
9 7 2 Won W 0 3 9
6 4 1 Drew D 0 1 4
8 1 0 Lost L 3 8 11
26 16 7 Scored S 3 12 36
32 8 4 Conceded C 12 24 38
91% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 58% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 75%
52% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 58%
30% 17% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 33% 42%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 33% 21%
43% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 46%
30% 42% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 29%
35% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 25%
 
5.8 5.9 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 6.5 6
5.4 5.6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.3 4.8
2.7 2.6 3.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.3
5 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.7 11.7 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 10.7 15.2 15.6
3 3.1 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.3 4.9
38% 43% 70% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 23% 31%
 
11.1 10.8 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 17.7 11.6 10.5
3.2 2.5 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.3 3.9 3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian 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 24 22 1 1 74 17 12 12 0 0 37 7 12 10 1 1 37 10 57 67
2 Rangers 24 18 4 2 56 22 12 10 2 0 32 7 12 8 2 2 24 15 34 58
3 Hearts 24 11 6 7 42 34 12 8 1 3 28 19 12 3 5 4 14 15 8 39
4 St. Mirren 23 9 6 8 26 32 12 7 4 1 16 8 11 2 2 7 10 24 -6 33
5 Livingston 23 9 5 9 24 33 11 5 3 3 10 10 12 4 2 6 14 23 -9 32
6 Hibernian 24 9 4 11 36 38 12 6 3 3 24 14 12 3 1 8 12 24 -2 31
7 Aberdeen 24 9 2 13 36 46 12 7 1 4 27 13 12 2 1 9 9 33 -10 29
8 St. Johnstone 24 8 3 13 28 38 11 3 2 6 12 14 13 5 1 7 16 24 -10 27
9 Kilmarnock 24 6 5 13 20 41 12 6 3 3 16 17 12 0 2 10 4 24 -21 23
10 Ross County 24 5 6 13 19 36 13 3 3 7 13 22 11 2 3 6 6 14 -17 21
11 Motherwell 23 5 5 13 26 35 11 1 3 7 10 19 12 4 2 6 16 16 -9 20
12 Dundee United 23 5 5 13 25 40 12 4 1 7 15 22 11 1 4 6 10 18 -15 20

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.