Saints V Thistle Preview

St Johnstone welcome back to McDiarmid park tomorrow the visit from Partick Thistle and some players have admitted that revenge is not on the cards so long as they pick up 3 points. The last encounter with Thistle saw saints be put to the gaunlet with a 4-0 loss on a day not remembered much by Kevin Rutkiewicz after a bizarre ilness that cut his game short.

The St Johnstone squad is looking a lot brighter than in recent times with plenty of wins on the trot now and the majority of the squad all fit and shaken off most injuries. Mcinnes may be able to play the likes of Morris and Swankie who have come through training with no worries since their injuries and illness repectivley.

Colin Samuel is still fighting away at his fitness battle and has upped his training recently and hopes to resume to full training this coming week.

Thisltes only worries have come in the shape of striker Mark Roberts and defender Alan Archibald both out with injuries but have Mark Twaddle back in the line up.

If saints pick up another 3 points it is possible to be top by end of the day but the Perth camp know that they must take each week at a time and not get carried away with themselves and concentrate on maximising points on the Perth front.

Stats for the clubs:

Top scorers - St Johnstone -   Stevie Milne  - 6 goals ( 5in the league)

                               Partick Thistle - McKeown - 5 goals ( 1 in the league)

 

Previous Form in last 5 games - saints      W D W W W

                                                          Thsitle     L  L  D  L  L

 

Home and away form as required -              P       W        D       L        F       A       pts

                                saints (home)                      5       3          0       2       9        7     17

                                Partick (away)                      5       1         1        3       3       7      14

 

Predicted score SJFC 2- 0 Thistle

Attendance predicted   2768

Scorers  - Milne (34)    Jackson (67)