St Johnstone vs Falkirk - prediction, team news, lineups

St Johnstone volition big Falkirk astatine McDiarmid Park connected Saturday day for a matchday 7 clash successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are seventh with 7 points from six games, portion the visitors are 10th with 5 points from six league matches.

Match preview

St Johnstone secured their spot backmost successful the Scottish Premiership with a superb Championship title-winning run past term, finishing 11 points wide of runners-up Partick Thistle. 

The Saints carried that momentum into the opening crippled of the caller league season, thrillingly beating Kilmarnock 4-3, with Kai Fotheringham scoring an 80th-minute winner. 

Despite subsequently losing 3 of their adjacent 5 games, Simo Valakari's broadside person continued to amusement they are susceptible of competing astatine the apical level during that time. 

St Johnstone person suffered constrictive one-goal defeats to St Mirren (1-0), Hearts (2-1) and Celtic (1-0), portion they person besides drawn with Dundee (1-1) and defeated Hibernian (2-1). 

Valakari's men person been peculiarly awesome astatine their location ground, winning 2 of their 3 matches astatine McDiarmid Park, with the objection the decision to reigning champions Celtic.

Now looking to widen that formidable location record, St Johnstone volition invited faltering Falkirk to McDiarmid Park connected Saturday. 

Falkirk, aft a superb sixth-placed decorativeness successful their archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful the top-flight past term, person had a dilatory commencement to the 2026-27 campaign, accumulating conscionable 5 points from six fixtures. 

In fact, John McGlynn's broadside failed to triumph immoderate of their opening 5 league matches, with 3 defeats and 2 draws, portion they were besides disappointingly eliminated from the Scottish League Cup successful the radical stage.

However, the Bairns yet ended their winless commencement successful the Scottish Premiership with a much-needed 2-1 triumph against Hearts connected Tuesday, and Falkirk volition beryllium anxious to physique connected that effect successful the coming games. 

Falkirk volition person to flooded their lacklustre grounds astatine McDiarmid Park if they are to prime up different affirmative result, having mislaid 3 of their past 4 visitors, alongside a 1-1 draw.

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Team News

St Johnstone lone person 1 wounded interest heading into Saturday's game, with Jamie Gullan backmost successful grooming but improbable to beryllium acceptable successful clip to feature.

Josh Fowler has scored 4 goals successful six league appearances this term, and Valakari volition beryllium hoping his prima striker tin marque the quality connected Saturday afternoon.

Falkirk, successful comparison, are contending with six absences owed to injury, with Aidan Nesbitt, Connor McLeod, Ethan Laidlaw, Joe Gardner, Finn Yeats and Keelan Adams each improbable to play. 

After securing their archetypal league triumph of the play earlier this week, McGlynn could opt to sanction an unchanged starting 11 connected Saturday, including goalscorers Ben Krauhaus and Owen Eames successful attack.

St Johnstone imaginable starting lineup:

Steward; Todd, Finlayson, Diabate, Alic; McAlear, Holt; Campbell, Cotterill, Steven; Fowler

Falkirk imaginable starting lineup:

Bain; Strain, Neilson, Henderson, McCann; Barbrook, Spencer; Ross, Krauhaus, Eames; Murrell

We say: St Johnstone 2-1 Falkirk

St Johnstone person had a beardown commencement to the play astatine their location ground, and with Falkirk enduring a slower opening to the caller campaign, portion besides having a mediocre caller grounds astatine McDiarmid Park, we are predicting the hosts to win.

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