We are back at the SMiSA Stadium on Saturday for our first home match of 2023 as St Mirren host Hearts.
Stephen Robinson's side started the year with a hard-earned point following a 0-0 draw with Kilmarnock at Rugby Park on Monday. Ethan Erhahon's early red card looked like Saints would be up against it, but the Buddies battled well and took a well deserved share of the spoils.
That draw made it five unbeaten for Saints and kept us in fifth place in the cinch Premiership.
Hearts will be coming into Saturday's match brimming with confidence following a 3-0 win over rivals Hibernian in the Edinburgh derby. Ex-Saint Lawrence Shankland netted twice for the Jambos as they also made it five unbeaten and extended their gap in third to five points over Saints and Aberdeen.
Robbie Neilson's side have won three and drawn two of their last five heading into Saturday's match.
Match Details
St Mirren v Hearts
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Saturday 7th January 2023
Kick-off: 3pm
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium
Ticket Info
Season tickets are valid for Saturday's match. Non-season ticket holders can buy home end tickets at stmirren.com/matchtickets or at the St Mirren Ticket Office.
Hearts have sold out their allocation of tickets for this match.
International subscribers to St Mirren TV can watch the match live on tv.stmirren.com as part of their subscription.
Previous
This will be the first time either side has met this season with the original fixture postponed due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
Ironically, the two will meet again the following weekend with St Mirren travelling to Tynecastle for that rearranged fixture next Friday (13th Jan).
The last meeting of the sides was in the Scottish Cup quarter-final in March. Hearts took a 2-0 lead at Tynecastle, but a strike from Eamonn Brophy and our 2021/22 goal of the season from Connor Ronan brought Saints level. Ultimately, Hearts would go on to win 4-2.
Hearts also won all three league clashes last season winning 2-0 and 2-1 at the SMiSA Stadium and 2-0 again at Tynecastle.
Saints last victory over the Jambos was in March 2020 when Jon Obika scored the only goal in what proved to be the final day of the 2019/20 season.
Jon Obika scored the winner the last time Saints defeated Hearts (Image: Kenny Ramsay)
The officials
Chris Graham takes charge of the match on Saturday. His assistants are David McGeachie and Gordon Crawford. Mike Roncone is fourth official.
Colin Steven is the Virtual Assistant Referee (VAR) while Daniel McFarlane is Assistant VAR.
