In this week 6 match, on Sat Sep 3rd, St. Johnstone will host St. Mirren in a meeting of these two closely matched Premiership teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. St. Johnstone sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-3 loss against Hearts. Graham Carey struck first for St. Johnstone in the 6th minute, but Rowles got the equalizer for Hearts in the 25th minute Finally they completed the comback victory in the 81st minute on a penalty goal by Lawrence Shankland to cap off a wild match. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 8 points in their last 10 matches, while 6th placed St. Mirren is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Hibernian. Keanu Baccus struck first for St. Mirren in the 6th minute on a feed from Ryan Strain, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Hibernian couldn’t muster any offence and St. Mirren ran away with the shutout win. St. Mirren is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season St. Mirren won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
St. Mirren’s most prolific scorer has been Curtis Main. He has netted 2 goals over the last 5 matches. Stevie May and Jamie Murphy are the top scorers for St. Johnstone in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal. It’s hard to imagine having success with those stats.