The visiting St. Johnstone side should be favourites in this visit to St. Mirren, as the away team holds a 23 point advantage from their 34 league games this season.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
St. Mirren form and stats
Happy days for St. Mirren in their previous game, a Premiership match away at Livingston that ended with a 3-1 victory. Before that, St. Mirren played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Hamilton Academical.
St. Johnstone form and stats
Three consecutive losses in away matches means St. Johnstone are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.St. Johnstone won their last game, 2-0 versus Dundee played at home. A 0-2 defeat away at Kilmarnock before that.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: St. Johnstone - St. Mirren 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 St. Mirren victories, 0 draws and 8 St. Johnstone wins.Top Goalscorers
 
M. Kennedy
6 goals
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S. Jackson
5 goals
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D. Mullen
4 goals
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St. Mirren missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| St. Mirren | St. Johnstone | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 34 | 17 | Played | 17 | 34 |
| 27 | 12 | Scored | 14 | 34 |
| 62 | 25 | Conceded | 24 | 44 |
| 97% | 94% | Over 0.5 | 94% | 94% |
| 79% | 71% | Over 1.5 | 71% | 74% |
| 50% | 41% | Over 2.5 | 35% | 35% |
| 29% | 12% | Over 3.5 | 12% | 15% |
| 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 6% | 6% |
| 50% | 41% | Both teams to score | 29% | 32% |
| 12% | 18% | Clean Sheet | 41% | 44% |
| 41% | 47% | Failed To Score | 35% | 29% |
| 3.7 | 4.2 | Corners For (avg) | 3.9 | 5 |
| 6 | 5.3 | Corners Against (avg) | 5.6 | 5.1 |
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 2 | Red Cards (total) | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | St. Johnstone | 34 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 34 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -10 | 47 |
| 2 | Motherwell | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 38 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -10 | 44 |
| 3 | Livingston | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 36 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| 4 | Hamilton Academical | 34 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -48 | 26 |
| 5 | St. Mirren | 34 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 27 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -35 | 24 |
| 6 | Dundee | 34 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -45 | 18 |
