Scottish Premiership

Scottish Premiership | Gameweek 5

Aug 23, 2020 at 4.30pm UK

McDiarmid Park

St Johnstone
0 - 1
Hibernian

McNamara (12'), Hendry (56'), Craig (90+1')

FT(HT: 0-0)

Mallan (90+1' pen.)
Hanlon (21'), Allan (63')

Reaction

Stephen 'Stevie' Mallan in action for Hibernian in April 2019

Stevie Mallan hails "great feeling" of scoring late goal in first game back

The midfielder marked his comeback from knee surgery by coming off the bench to score from the penalty spot against St Johnstone.

Aug 24, 14:32

Jack Ross pictured in charge of Sunderland in September 2019

Jack Ross: 'We were fortunate in win over St Johnstone'

The hosts had a goal wrongly disallowed.

Aug 23, 19:00

The Match

Data Analysis

Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Hibernian win with a probability of 38.53%. A win for St Johnstone had a probability of 35.05% and a draw had a probability of 26.4%.

The most likely scoreline for a Hibernian win was 0-1 with a probability of 9.98%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-2 (8.38%) and 0-2 (6.65%). The likeliest St Johnstone win was 1-0 (9.43%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (12.56%). The actual scoreline of 0-1 was predicted with a 10% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted a 0-1 win for Hibernian in this match.

Result
St Johnstone	Draw	Hibernian
35.05%	26.42%	38.53%

Both teams to score 52.72%

Goals

Over 2.5

Under 2.5

47.95%

52.04%

Over 3.5

Under 3.5

26.22%

73.77%

St Johnstone Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

71.6%

28.39%

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

35.85%

64.14%

Hibernian Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

73.63%

26.36%

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

38.48%

61.51%

Score Analysis

St Johnstone 35.05%

Hibernian 38.53%

Draw 26.41%

St Johnstone	Draw	Hibernian
1-0 @ 9.43% 2-1 @ 7.91% 2-0 @ 5.93% 3-1 @ 3.32% 3-0 @ 2.49% 3-2 @ 2.21% 4-1 @ 1.05% Other @ 2.72% Total : 35.05%	1-1 @ 12.56% 0-0 @ 7.49% 2-2 @ 5.27% 3-3 @ 0.98% Other @ 0.11% Total : 26.41%	0-1 @ 9.98% 1-2 @ 8.38% 0-2 @ 6.65% 1-3 @ 3.72% 0-3 @ 2.96% 2-3 @ 2.34% 1-4 @ 1.24% 0-4 @ 0.99% Other @ 2.27% Total : 38.53%