Hibernian have journeyed here for an engaging battle against the hosting St. Mirren. Get smart on the game with this full Premiership preview!
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!
St. Mirren form and stats
OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for St. Mirren's two home games in the Premiership so far this season, having collected 3 points here at The Smisa Stadium.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Trevor Carson not having conceded a league goal in 183 minutes.
Happy days for St. Mirren in their previous game, a fixture away at Dundee United (placed 11th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. The attacker Main won the honour of being "man of the match" for St. Mirren with a rating of 8.85/10. Main scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, St. Mirren had a home game versus Ross County which ended with a victory 1-0.This is expected to be a close game, with St. Mirren perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Mirren as a small favourite), we find 7 games. Mirren has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 1.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the St. Mirren at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Hibernian form and stats
Things could have gone better for Hibernian in their Premiership away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.
Hibernian's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Rangers that finished 2-2. Attacker Boyle got a player rating of 8.05 in the game. "Man of the match" Boyle scored one goal, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
A 1-2 defeat away at Livingston before that.It's early days yet, but Hibernian has scored 2 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mirren one win, three draws and Hibernian six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Main 2 goals |   J. Campbell 2 goals |  M. Boyle 2 goals |
St. Mirren missing players
Hibernian missing players
| St. Mirren | Hibernian | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6.2 | 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 14 | 11.5 | 8.8 |
| 4.2 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 2.8 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.8 | 10.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 22 | 17.5 | 12.2 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4 | 3.5 |
| 38% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 25% | 36% |
| 7.2 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 8 | 8.2 |
| 2.5 | 1.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4 | 3.5 |
