St Mirren travel through to West Lothian to take on Livingston in the cinch Premiership on Saturday. 

Saints head to the Tony Macaroni Arena having picked up their first league win of the season on Sunday after defeating Aberdeen 3-2 at the SMiSA Stadium. Curtis Main scored the winner after a double from Connor Ronan saw Jim Goodwin's men pick up their first three points of the season.

The win moved Saints up to eighth place in the cinch Premiership and extended the Buddies' unbeaten run in the league to four matches. 

Livingston sit in 10th place in the cinch Premiership - three points behind Saints having won one and drawn one of their seven league fixtures so far this season. David Martindale's side go into Saturday's match having lost 3-0 at Tynecastle last weekend.

Livi were victorious in their last outing at the Tony Macaroni Arena though. Andrew Shinnie scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Celtic less than two weeks ago. 

Match Details

Livingston v St Mirren
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Saturday 2nd October 2021
Kick-off: 3pm
Venue: The Tony Macaroni Arena

Ticket Info

Tickets for Saturday's match are now available at the St Mirren Ticket Office and online at this link. Tickets will be available on the day at the away ticket window at the Tony Macaroni Arena.

PPV is also available on Livingston's PPV site for £20 for those who can't attend. 

Previous

St Mirren have already visited the Tony Macaroni Arena this season having faced Livingston in the second round of the Premier Sports Cup. Despite a late Conor McCarthy equaliser, the Buddies were knocked out on penalties after a 1-1 draw in normal time.

Jim Goodwin's side were victorious on their last league visit to Livingston. Jake Doyle-Hayes scored in a 1-0 win for Saints back in November 2020. 

Conor McCarthy celebrates after scoring at the Tony Macaroni Arena in August. 

The officials

Grant Irvine is the referee on Saturday with Ross MacLeod and David Dunne the linesmen. John Beaton is the fourth official. 

St Mirren make the trip through to West Lothian on Saturday as Jim Goodwin's side face Livingston in cinch Premiership action.

The Saints will be looking to maintain their recent good form with the Buddies unbeaten in their last four league matches.

Tickets for Saturday's match are now available at the St Mirren Ticket Office and online at this link.

Livingston vs St Mirren
cinch Premiership
Venue: The Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston
Date: Saturday 2nd October 2021
Kick-off: 3pm

The ticket prices as follows:

* - 16-18, Over 65, registered disabled or full-time student with valid matriculation card. 
** - Under-16

We have been allocated with 14 wheelchair tickets and 14 carer tickets to go with these. These are available only at the St Mirren Ticket Office. 

The Ticket Office hours for the remainder of the week are as follows:

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 840-6130.

St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com

St Mirren defeated Aberdeen in a five goal thriller to pick up their first league win of the season.

Connor Ronan fired Saints ahead, but Jim Goodwin's men found themselves behind at the break after Scott Brown and Christian Ramirez had scored for the Dons.

Teddy Jenks was shown red for Aberdeen early in the second-half and the Buddies made the man advantage count with Ronan grabbing his second before Curtis Main headed home the winner. 

Jim Goodwin made one change from the side that drew with Hibernian last week as Saints looked for their first league win of the season. Dylan Reid dropped out of the squad with injury and was replaced by Ethan Erhahon.

The Buddies got off to the ideal start - taking the lead on 14 minutes. A poor kick-out from Joe Lewis was pounced upon by Alan Power. He knocked on to midfield partner Erhahon who played a stunning through ball for Ronan. The Irishman brought the ball in brilliantly before firing home via the aid of a deflection off Aberdeen defender David Bates. 

Connor Ronan fires Saints ahead (Image: Jeff Holmes)

Saints joy was short-lived with Aberdeen finding themselves level four minutes later in fortuitous fashion. A free-kick into the box bundled off Ramirez before knicking off Dons captain Brown's foot and into the back of the net. 

Aberdeen started taking a grip of the game after their equaliser. Marcus Fraser made an excellent challenge to block Jenks' attempt two minutes after the Dons leveller. But the Dons would take the lead on 34 minutes when Ramirez headed home. The American forward peeled off his marker to bullet Calvin Ramsay's free-kick into the net. There were arguments from the Saints defence that Fraser had been impeded by Brown, but referee Willie Collum said no. 

Saints started the second-half brightly as they looked to get themselves back into the match. Scott Tanser almost scored just two minutes after the restart when his free-kick from the right-hand side drifted all the way through with Lewis clawing off his line. 

On 51 minutes, the visitors were reduced to 10 men when Jenks was given his marching orders. The Dons man had been booked in the first-half for a late challenge on Fraser and was shown a second yellow after a foul on Jamie McGrath. Jim Goodwin responded to that red card by going with two upfront, bringing on Main for Erhahon. 

Within six minutes of the red card, Saints found themselves level. McGrath slid the ball through for Ronan who took a touch to steady himself before lashing into the back of the net to score his, and St Mirren's, second of the afternoon. 

Just after the hour mark the Buddies turned the game on its head with substitute Main making it 3-2. Fraser's ball over the top looked like it drifted beyond Lewis, but the English striker was adamant he'd gotten a touch to force in. 

Curtis Main gets in ahead of Joe Lewis for the winner (Image: Allan Picken)

Saints had more chances to add to their lead with Eamonn Brophy and Main having opportunities, but in the end three was enough for the Buddies to claim their first three points of the season.

Full-Time: St Mirren 3-2 Aberdeen

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Jim Goodwin celebrates after Saints defeat Aberdeen (Image: Allan Picken)

St Mirren: Alnwick, Fraser (Flynn 74), Shaughnessy (c), McCarthy, Millar (McAllister 72), Power, Erhahon (Main 56), Tanser, McGrath, Ronan, Brophy (Dennis 83)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Tait, Erwin

Aberdeen: Lewis, Ramsay, Bates, McCrorie, MacKenzie, Brown (c), Jenks, Hedges (Samuels 72), Hayes, Ferguson, Ramirez (Emmanuel-Thomas 72)
Subs Not Used: Woods, Gallagher, McGeouch, Campbell, Longstaff

Referee: William Collum
Assistant Referee: Daniel McFarlane
Assistant Referee: John McCrossan
Fourth Official: Alan Muir

Attendance: 4,513

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Our match day entertainment returns again this Sunday ahead of St Mirren's cinch Premiership match against Aberdeen at the SMISA stadium.

No lie in, it's an early start with the fun getting under way from 10:30am behind the West Stand.

We'll have a range of different activities taking place including:

• Giant Inflatable Assault Course
• Our Black and White Disco Bouncy Castle
• An appearance from Scotland's No.1 mascot - Paisley Panda
• Finish like Eamonn Brophy at our football skills zone
• Shoot some hoops with our fairground basket ball game
• Hear all your favourite St Mirren tunes on the boom box
• Face painting
• Balloon Modelling

All fans are welcome to attend, so get yourself down to the stadium from 10:30am to join in all the fun!

St Mirren get set to host Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon at the SMiSA Stadium as Jim Goodwin's men take on the Dons in cinch Premiership action.

Saints go into Sunday's match having drawn their third league match in a row last Saturday. Joe Shaughnessy's late header earned the Buddies a point at Easter Road in a 2-2 draw with Hibernian. That followed two goalless draws at home against Dundee United and St Johnstone. 

Jim Goodwin's side currently sit in 9th place in the cinch Premiership on four points from their opening six matches. 

Aberdeen come into Sunday's match following a narrow defeat at home to St Johnstone last weekend. The Dons were edged out 1-0 at Pittodrie in a loss that extended their winless run to seven matches. 

Wins against Dundee United and Livingston on the first two weekends of the league season see Aberdeen sitting in seventh place in the cinch Premiership.

Match Details

St Mirren v Aberdeen
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Sunday 26th September 2021
Kick-off: 12pm
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium

Ticket Info

Tickets for Sunday are available at the St Mirren Ticket Office.  

Aberdeen have been given their full allocation of tickets so away supporters will have to purchase tickets directly from Aberdeen.

As the match is being shown live on Sky Sports, PPV will not be available for this match. 

Previous

The Buddies took a point at Pittodrie in a 0-0 draw as neither side could be separated back in February in the only meeting between the two in 2021.

That was also the case in the last league meeting at the SMiSA Stadium with Jamie McGrath's penalty cancelling out Jonny Hayes' opener in a 1-1 draw in December.

Both sides did register a win over each other last season with Saints defeating the Dons 2-1 in the Premier Sports Cup. Jamie McGrath scored a late winner in a big win in Jim Goodwin side's run to the semi-final.

Ethan Erhahon scored St Mirren's Goal of the Season last year at Pittodrie in October, but Lewis Ferguson's injury time goal gave Aberdeen a 2-1 win.  

Jamie McGrath celebrates after scoring a late winner against the Dons in the Premier Sports Cup

The officials

The referee on Sunday is William Collum. He'll be assisted by Daniel McFarlane and John McCrossan, while Alan Muir is the fourth official. 

Joe Shaughnessy says Saints are heading in the right direction as they search for a first league win of the season.

The skipper scored in the final few minutes to earn the Buddies a well-deserved point at Easter Road on Saturday in a 2-2 draw with Hibernian after Eamonn Brophy had given Jim Goodwin's men a first-half lead.

It was St Mirren's third draw in a row with the Buddies sitting in 10th place in the cinch Premiership on four points after six matches.

And while Saints still search for that first league win of the season, the captain believes all the signs are positive for the Buddies following recent performances.

The performance was there, and we scored a couple of goals and had a couple of really good chances as well which is something that we maybe struggled with in the last couple of weeks. It’s all there and heading in the right direction so there’s nothing to worry about.

"Performance wise it’s probably the best we’ve played this season - especially the first-half. I thought we dominated the ball and played some of our best stuff. Second-half - for maybe the first 15 minutes - Hibs came out flying and changed their shape and we didn’t really deal with it well. To find ourselves 2-1 down after playing the majority of the game really well was hard to take.

"The lads showed good character to stay in it and keep pushing right to the end. It was end-to-end stuff towards the end and either team could have won so it’s not a bad result."

Joe scores the equaliser at Easter Road (Image: Craig Brown)

Joe's 88th minute equaliser was his third goal of the season with all three coming after the 85th minute mark.

I think I’ve probably reached my quota for the season,” Joe laughed.

"It was a brilliant delivery and just closed my eyes and hoped it hit the net.

"All the deliveries from the set pieces and crosses coming in are brilliant so you know you’re probably going to get on the end of one.

"It was right place at the right time and it’s come right in on my head so it was perfect."

A noisy travelling support of around 500 followed the Saints through to the capital on Saturday and Joe was pleased the side was able to send them back to Paisley with something to celebrate.

It’s good to have the fans back in and the away fans are always brilliant. It’s good that they had something to cheer towards the end. I hope they enjoyed it."

The team celebrate Shaughnessy's equaliser in front of the travelling support (Image: Craig Brown)

Thank you to all who have applied for our match day ball attendant opportunities. No more applications are being accepted at moment. We are currently in process of contacting all successful applicants.

Tickets are on-sale for St Mirren's cinch Premiership match at home to Aberdeen.

Saints face the Dons at the SMiSA Stadium on Sunday afternoon and tickets are available at the St Mirren Ticket Office and online.

Match Details

St Mirren v Aberdeen
cinch Premiership
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium, Paisley
Date: Sunday 26th September 2021
Kick-off: 12pm

Season Tickets ARE valid for this game. 

If you have yet to receive your new season tickets or had any issue with your season ticket at the match against Dundee United we would ask that you please email help@stmirren.com before Thursday. 

Home end tickets will be on sale (subject to availability) until kick-off. They can be purchased at the St Mirren Ticket Office or online at stmirren.com/matchtickets. 

Aberdeen have been given their full allocation so away supporters will have to purchase directly from Aberdeen.

Season ticket holders who can't attend can watch for free on tv.stmirren.com. As the match is being shown live on Sky Sports, PPV is not available. 

St Mirren took a share of the spoils at Easter Road as Joe Shaughnessy's late header earned Saints a point in the capital. 

It was nothing more than Jim Goodwin's men deserved after a battling performance against high-flying Hibernian. 

Eamonn Brophy put Saints ahead in the first-half, but two goals in four second-half minutes from Paul McGinn and Martin Boyle had the home side in-front. With two minutes of normal time remaining, Saints skipper Shaughnessy headed the Buddies level to take a point back to Paisley.

The manager made just one change to the side that drew 0-0 with Dundee United last weekend. Alan Power, returning from suspension, took the place of Curtis Main who dropped to the bench. 

The opening exchanges of the first-half saw very few clear cut chances for either side. Martin Boyle curled wide from 20 yards on 16 minutes, while Brophy also had his own opportunity from similar range 60 seconds later, but his low strike was straight at Hibs goalkeeper Matt Macey.

With just three minutes of the half remaining, Saints took the lead and it was the lively Brophy who would get it. Connor Ronan sent a ball down the left channel for the striker to chase. He cut into the box before firing low into the near post to put St Mirren ahead and score his second of the season. 

Eamonn Brophy celebrates after putting Saints ahead (Image: Craig Brown)

Hibs made a change at the break with Scott Allan coming on for Chris Cadden and the midfielder showed his quality in the early part of second-half. It was his play that won the corner from which thought they had equalised. Ryan Porteous' header from the corner was goal-bound, but the offside Boyle got a touch on it before it crossed the line with the linesman raising his flag.

The home side would find themselves level on 57 minutes and it was Allan who was integral to it. His first time ball found ex-Saint McGinn running in at the back post to smash beyond Alnwick to even the scores. 

And four minutes later the Hibees were ahead. Matt Millar was adjudged to have fouled Porteous in the box with referee Kevin Clancy pointing to the penalty spot. Boyle stepped up from 12 yards and lashed home to put the hosts in front. 

Saints almost levelled on 67 minutes when Shaughnessy met a perfect cross from Millar. The captain got a toe to it but it cracked off the cross bar with the Hibs defence eventually managing to get clear. 

The Buddies appealed for a penalty with 15 minutes remaining when substitute Curtis Main went down in the Hibs box under the challenge of Hibees captain Paul Hanlon. To his and his teammates frustration, Kevin Clancy was unmoved. 

Saints continued to press for an equaliser with Brophy sending just wide from 20 yards with a little over 10 minutes remaining. That pressure would eventually tell when Shaughnessy appeared in the box to meet Scott Tanser's cross and head beyond Macey to level. 

Joe Shaughnessy heads home to level (Image: Craig Brown)

There was still time for drama in the closing moments with both sides having chances to win it. Allan had a shot deflected on to the post, while Kyle McAllister had an effort saved by Macey after brilliantly working his way into the box.

Full-Time: Hibernian 2-2 St Mirren

St Mirren: Alnwick, Fraser, Shaughnessy (c), McCarthy, Millar (McAllister 82), Power, Reid (Main 62), Tanser, McGrath, Ronan (Erhahon 62), Brophy
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Tait, Flynn, Dennis

Hibernian: Macey, McGinn, Porteous, Hanlon, Doig, Doyle-Hayes (Gogic 82), Newell, Magennis, Cadden (Allan 46), Boyle, Nisbet
Subs Not Used: Dabrowski, Stevenson, Gullan, Wright, Wood-Gordon

Referee: Kevin Clancy
Assistant Referee: Ralph Gordon
Assistant Referee: Steven Traynor
Fourth Official: Craig Napier