Saints are on the road again tonight as they travel to Kirkcaldy to face Raith Rovers at Stark's Park.
The Buddies will meet Rovers for the third time in the Ladbrokes Championship this season with each side sharing a win.
The first meeting came on match day two with Saints paying the Kirkcaldy side a visit after an opening day draw with Morton. Declan McManus gave the home side the lead after just 17 minutes. Ross Callachan put Rovers 2-0 up before a defensive mix-up between Jamie Langfield and Andy Webster allowed McManus to grab his second of the match just a minute later. Ryan Hardie, now at Raith, scored a consolation goal for the Buddies just beyond the hour mark but the damage had been done.
The two sides met for a second time in the league, this time at the Paisley 2021 Stadium, in December. Saints had just picked up their first league win of the season after beating Queen of the South just days before facing Rovers. And they made it back-to-back league wins when Lewis Morgan scored from a thunderous effort early in the second half to secure a 1-0 victory for Saints.
St Mirren's form has improved in recent weeks with the Buddies winning four matches in a row before Sunday's defeat to Celtic. Even in defeat Saints were praised by Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers who described St Mirren as the best team his side had faced domestically this season.
That run of four wins, the first time the Buddies had done so since 2008, included league wins over Ayr United and Hibernian. Both were beaten 2-0 with John Sutton and Morgan netting in the win over Ayr, while full back Stelios Demetriou grabbed his first St Mirren goals as Saints triumphed over league leaders Hibernian in Paisley.
Raith come into this match on the back of a 1-0 defeat to Ayr United at Somerset Park last week. Facing an injury crisis, midfielder Ryan Stevenson had to play in goals for John Hughes' outfit but Rovers have since agreed a deal to bring in Slovakian goalkeeper Pavol Penksa until the end of the season.
The Buddies still sit at the bottom of the Ladbrokes Championship but a win over Raith would bring them to within two points of Ayr United who sit in ninth place and three points off Rovers with a game in hand over the Kirkcaldy side. Meanwhile, our opponents will be desperate to push themselves away from the danger zone and get their first league win since October.
