St. Johnstone
- St. Johnstone are top of the Championship 2025/2026 on 61 points from 30 games.
- St. Johnstone are the clear favorites to win this match with odds of 1.24, but it may not be as simple as it appears on paper.
- Saints are an organised, possession-based team who enjoy building up play from the back and create wide overloads while Queen’s Park are a compact, hard-to-penetrate unit under Sean Crighton who look to attack on the counter with their available energy.
- The visitors are disciplined and could cause the Saints all kinds of problems on their counters, so this could be an intriguing clash of styles in the midfield and the flanks.
Queen’s Park
- Queen’s Park are 6th in the Championship on 35 points from 30 fixtures.
- Queen’s Park have won four, drawn four and lost seven of their 15 away trips in the Championship this season, conceding 26 goals in total, an average of 1.73 per match.
Head-to-Head
The last Championship head-to-head ended 1-1 at Queen’s Park , but St. Johnstone have won two of the last three meetings and the Spiders have never won away at St. Johnstone.
St. Johnstone
Reece McAlear (3 of St. Johnstone’s last 7 Championship goals in their last 5 fixtures) has been a big spark for the Saints recently, but Joshua McPake is still their biggest attacking threat with 14 goals in 28 Championship fixtures this term.
Queen’s Park
- Nikolay Todorov is Queen’s Park’s only real threat up front with four Championship goals in 26 appearances this season.
- Michael Ruth has provided a spark recently, however, scoring two of their last four goals in their last five fixtures.
Betting Insights
- At McDiarmid Park, they have won 9, drawn 5 and lost 1 in 15 Championship matches this term, conceding just 10 goals in 15 home fixtures.
- St. Johnstone’s superior depth in attack should see them put this one away, so I’m going for a 3-0 win in the exact score market and for the game to feature over 2.5 goals, which looks worth a play at 1.61.
- The 1.67 odds on ‘Both teams to score - No’ is also appealing given Saints’ defensive solidity and Queen’s Park lack of goals.
Prediction
- St. Johnstone are the clearly superior side and an away goal on Saturday would be a bonus for Queen’s Park, but their lack of scoring ability will be a major factor in the match outcome.
- Final score prediction: 3-0 (St. Johnstone).
