Motherwell vs St Mirren - prediction, team news, lineups

Motherwell volition invited St Mirren to Fir Park connected Saturday for a matchday 12 clash successful the Scottish Premiership.

The hosts are 10th successful the standings with 9 points from 11 games, portion the visitors are seventh with 14 points from 11 league fixtures.

Match preview

Motherwell caput into Saturday's fixture successful hopeless request of a victory, having failed to triumph immoderate of their past 7 matches, featuring six defeats and 1 draw. 

Alfred Johansson, who was appointed during the summer, has, therefore, travel nether expanding pressure. 

The Steelmen brag did, astatine least, spot his broadside debar a seventh consecutive decision arsenic they drew 2-2 with St Johnstone successful midweek, though Motherwell were devastatingly denied the triumph precocious on. 

Josh Campbell's 93rd-minute header snatched a constituent for St Johnstone, but Johansson said helium was encouraged to spot the "fire" from his players successful the dressing country pursuing that disappointing precocious draw.

Johansson volition beryllium anxious to usage that 'fire' arsenic information to extremity their winless tally erstwhile they instrumentality connected St Mirren, and the Steelmen volition gully assurance from winning 2 of the past 3 Scottish Premiership meetings astatine Fir Park. 

St Mirren, however, volition caput into Saturday's fixture with a new-found assurance aft a caller betterment successful results. 

The Saints had initially started the 2026-27 Scottish Premiership run with 3 wins and 1 gully from the archetypal 4 matches, but Craig McLeish's broadside subsequently endured a miserable five-game losing run. 

St Mirren yet ended that streak connected matchday 10 against Dundee, claiming a 2-1 victory, followed by coming from down to unafraid a constituent successful a 1-1 gully with Hibernian. 

Although those results volition springiness St Mirren a flimsy boost aft their disastrous losing streak, concerns volition persist astir their antiaircraft grounds this term, having present conceded successful each of their past 7 league fixtures. 

The Saints' 19 league goals conceded is really the 3rd worst grounds successful the division, though hosts Motherwell are 1 of those sides with 20 conceded successful the aforesaid period. 

Now looking to marque it 3 consecutive games without defeat, portion a triumph could instrumentality St Mirren into the apical fractional of the table, the Saints volition beryllium looking to assertion their 3rd triumph from six distant matches this term.

Motherwell Scottish Premiership form:

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Team News

Callum Hendry and Paul McGinn stay unavailable for Motherwell owed to injury, portion Dylan Williams and Oscar Priestman are doubts for this match. 

Tawanda Maswanhise and Ibrahim Said were Motherwell's champion performers successful the gully against St Johnstone, and the duo should proceed alongside Joe Hodge and Sebastian Palmer-Houlden successful attack.

Meanwhile, St Mirren are contending without Jonah Ayunga, Keanu Baccus and Nikolas Agrafiotis, with Malik Dijksteel is besides a uncertainty owed to injury. 

After making it back-to-back matches without defeat, St Mirren could enactment up with an unchanged squad arsenic they hunt for a 3rd consecutive undefeated lucifer connected Saturday.

Motherwell imaginable starting lineup:

Paulsen; Sparrow, Girdwood-Reich, Moormann, Longelo; McGhee, Levitt; Maswanhise, Said, Hodge; Palmer-Houlden

St Mirren imaginable starting lineup:

Chapman; Fraser, Gogic, Fieldson; Ramsay, Carr, Phillips, John; Thomas, Sule, Mochrie

We say: Motherwell 2-1 St Mirren

Motherwell whitethorn beryllium enduring a torrid run, but the Steelmen volition beryllium motivated from their gully successful midweek, and with their formidable caller grounds astatine location successful this fixture, we are predicting the hosts to win.

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