- Home record: St. Johnstone have failed to win their last 2 home games against Dundee FC.
- Home form: St. Johnstone have won 2, drawn 3 and lost 1 of their 6 home Premiership 2026/2027 games.
Tight, tough matchup for The Dee and The Saints
Dundee FC will be the more attractive team in a tight contest this Saturday when they travel to McDiarmid Park to take on St. Johnstone. The Dee will play on the front foot, pressing St. Johnstone high and often when out of possession while they will attempt to exploit the wide areas of the field with long balls into the box and high-tempo forward play.
The Saints will be happy to play that game if they can keep the ball, but they won't have much time on it and that could be a problem. Simo Valakari has set his side up in a solid 4-2-3-1 system that sets up compact lines in the first phase of defense and presses with trigger when out of position.
The game will be a sort of chess match, with St. Johnstone looking to spring the occasional counter into the space behind Dundee's high line while the visitors will look to squeeze them out. The last time these sides met in the top flight was 8 weeks ago when the match ended in a 1-1 draw at Dens Park, a result that continued the tight trend of the last 5 head-to-heads, which has seen St. Johnstone win 1, Dundee FC take 2 and 2 draws.
Dundee FC are live and kicking
The hosts have been in inconsistent form of late, claiming 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat in their last 5 games while the Dee have been more consistent with 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in their recent 5-game spell.
St. Johnstone were hammered 4-0 away to Rangers, which was expected, before battling to a 2-2 home draw against Motherwell last weekend in a game that summed up their recent run.
Dundee FC responded well to their 2-1 away defeat to St. Mirren when they beat Kilmarnock 3-1 at home in the following game, which was a good bounce-back performance from the Tayside club.
Dundee FC are worthy underdogs
Table and form:
St. Johnstone are currently 8th in the table with 13 points from 11 games while Dundee FC are 4th with 17 points from the same amount of games.
Odds and outlook:
St. Johnstone are set at 1.81 to win this game with Dundee FC at 4.0 and the draw at 3.75, which are all reasonable odds but Dundee FC will have the confidence of not losing their last 2 away games against St. Johnstone. There will be plenty of goals in this game with the visitors' high line of defence and St. Johnstone's counter-attacking style, so over 2.5 goals at 1.7 is a good fit with both teams to score coming in at a very attractive 1.65.
Key players:
- Josh Fowler has been the main threat for The Saints with 4 goals in 7 Premiership 2026/2027 games and he has also scored 2 of his team's last 4 goals over their past 5 games.
- Bradley Fink has bagged 3 of Dundee FC's last 10 and 3 of their total of 10 goals in the past 5 games.
