St Mirren vs Livingston - prediction, team news, lineups

St Mirren invited Livingston to the SMISA Stadium connected Saturday day successful their opening fixture of the Scottish Premiership's post-split campaign. 

The hosts are 4th successful the relegation radical array with 30 points from 33 games, portion the visitors are stone bottommost of the standings with conscionable 16 points from 33 fixtures.

Match preview

St Mirren person endured an underwhelming 2025-26 Scottish Premiership campaign, dropping from 3 consecutive top-half finishes to inactive battling for their top-flight endurance successful the post-split term.

The Saints are 10th successful the array with 30 points from 33 league games, having recorded 7 wins, 9 draws and 17 defeats passim the pre-split campaign. 

Consequently, St Mirren find themselves narrowly conscionable 2 points supra 11th-placed Kilmarnock successful the relegation playoff place, leaving the Saints anxious for a beardown tally of results successful the post-split play to debar having to vie successful the playoff fixture.

St Mirren did grounds an encouraging extremity to the pre-split word nether interim brag Craig McLeish, who was appointed pursuing Stephen Robinson's departure to Aberdeen, signaling 2 wins and 2 losses. 

The Saints volition beryllium hoping to physique connected those results successful the coming 5 fixtures, starting by taking each 3 points against the league's basement dwellers, Livingston. 

The Lions person had a disastrous campaign, sitting stone bottommost of the standings with conscionable 16 points aft 33 league fixtures. 

After a affirmative commencement to the term, with Livingston drafting their opening crippled earlier beating Falkirk connected matchday two, the Lions person subsequently embarked connected a 33-game winless tally crossed each competitions. 

Although endurance is inactive mathematically possible, Livingston indispensable overturn a 12-point shortage to 11th-placed Kilmarnock to adjacent scope the relegation playoff spot, meaning a winning post-split tally and favourable results elsewhere volition beryllium required.

Marvin Bartley will, therefore, beryllium looking for his broadside to drawback their 33-game winless streak by claiming each 3 points connected Saturday. 

St Mirren Scottish Premiership form:

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St Mirren signifier (all competitions):

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Livingston Scottish Premiership form:

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Team News

St Mirren volition beryllium without Ryan Mullen, Shamal George, Keanu Baccus, Marcus Fraser and Malik Dijksteel owed to wounded issues.

Following caller injuries to some Mullen and George, 17-year-old Grant Tamosevicius presently looks acceptable to marque his league debut, though St Mirren could marque an exigency indebtedness signing up of the clash.

Livingston are acceptable to beryllium without Connor McLennan and Aidan Denholm for Saturday's lucifer owed to wounded problems. 

Lewis Smith has scored 3 goals successful his past 2 matches for Livingston, and the guardant volition beryllium hoping to find the nett erstwhile again and pb the Lions to 3 points against St Mirren.

St Mirren imaginable starting lineup:

Tamosevicius; Donnelly, Gogic, Freckleton; O'Hara, Devaney, Campbell, John; Phillips; Ayunga, Mandron

Livingston imaginable starting lineup:

Prior; Finlayson, Wilson, Montano; Kerr, Arfield, Sylla, Fati; Smith, May, Nouble

We say: St Mirren 2-1 Livingston

St Mirren had an encouraging extremity to the pre-split campaign, and with Livingston's disastrous 33-game winless run, we are backing the hosts to triumph this one.

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