In a weekend match on Saturday Jan 7th, in week 21, St. Mirren will host Hearts at The Smisa Stadium in a meeting of these two Premiership teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 2 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. 5th placed St. Mirren is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Kilmarnock. Neither Kilmarnock nor St. Mirren could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 12 and 6 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. St. Mirren is looking for direction having earned 11 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Hearts recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Hibernian. Lawrence Shankland struck first for Hearts in the 8th minute, then Lawrence Shankland added another in the 38th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Hibernian couldn’t manage to score, and Hearts took the shutout win. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Hearts should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Hearts won the head to head battle with 3 wins.
Lawrence Shankland has been on a hot streak lately. In the last five games, hes scored 6 goals for Hearts. Both Greg Kiltie and Mark O’Hara have been the hottest scorers for St. Mirren in the last five each having scored 2 goals each.