It's another midweek of football for St Mirren as the Buddies get set to host St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena this evening.
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St Mirren's 2-1 win over Motherwell in the Ladbrokes Premiership last Tuesday saw Jim Goodwin's men open up a four point gap over bottom side Hamilton Academical and cut the gap on ninth placed Ross County to four points also.
Despite Motherwell taking a first-half lead, the Buddies fought back thanks to goals from Jon Obika and Ilkay Durmus which gave Saints a first Premiership win of 2020.
8th placed St Johnstone maintain top six ambitions with Tommy Wright's side sitting five points off Hibernian with two games in hand.
The Perth Saints are unbeaten in their last five league matches having drawn with Rangers (2-2), Ross County (1-1) & Hearts (3-3), while defeating Motherwell (2-1) and Aberdeen (1-0).
St Johnstone's last league loss came at the end of January when they lost 3-0 to Celtic at McDiarmid Park.
Both sides come into tonight's match on the back of defeats in the William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-finals. The Buddies were beaten 2-0 by Aberdeen at the Simple Digital Arena on Saturday, while St Johnstone lost 1-0 at home to Celtic on Sunday.
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Tonight's match will be the third meeting of the Saints this season.
St Mirren came out on top in the first battle of the Saints of the season when goals from Jon Obika and Danny Mullen gave the Buddies a 2-0 win at the Simple Digital Arena in October.
Jim Goodwin's men then made the trip to Perth in late December with the sides unable to be separated in a 0-0 draw at McDiarmid Park.
St Johnstone's last win over St Mirren was in March 2019 as they edged the Buddies out 1-0 at McDiarmid Park.
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Gary MacKenzie, Kyle Magennis, Stephen McGinn and Ryan Flynn all remain out for the Buddies.
"It's going to be a really difficult game there's no doubt about that.
"They are defensively strong and not giving much away but they carry a real good threat going forward.
"We're well aware of what they can do but I genuinely believe that we've shown that we have some good attacking players.
"Their defeat against Celtic was only their third in 16 games or something like that – there won’t be many better records out there than that at the moment.
"Tommy Wright was getting a lot of negative press earlier on in the season which wasn't justified in my opinion. He deserves great credit for how organised he has the team."
