Hearts 2-2 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 5 November 2016

Result

Hearts 2-2 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 5 November 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Hearts · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-2 St. Johnstone: match report

Hearts drew with St. Johnstone 2-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 5 November 2016. The half-time score was 1-1.

Prince Bauben opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Hearts's goals came from Prince Bauben (25') and Callum Paterson (87'). St. Johnstone scored through Danny Swanson (41') and Chris Kane (85').

Discipline: Hearts received 3 yellow cards; St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 5th on 18 points from 11 and St. Johnstone 3rd on 21 points from 12. Hearts went on to finish that season 5th with 46 points, and St. Johnstone 4th with 61.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Hearts wins, 0 draws and 1 for St. Johnstone.

Going into the match Hearts's last five read D-L-W-W-D and St. Johnstone's L-D-W-L-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Yellow card · Blair AlstonSt. Johnstone
  • 25'Goal · Prince BaubenHearts · 1-0
  • 41'Goal · Danny SwansonSt. Johnstone · 1-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Prince BaubenHearts
  • 77'Yellow card · Igor RossiHearts
  • 85'Goal · Chris KaneSt. Johnstone · 1-2
  • 87'Goal · Callum PatersonHearts · 2-2
  • 89'Yellow card · R. MuirheadHearts
  • 90+3'Yellow card · B. EastonSt. Johnstone

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Hearts 0, draws 0, St. Johnstone 1.

Team news

Hearts line-up

Jack Hamilton, Igor Rossi, John Souttar, Liam Smith, Perry Kitchen, Jamie Walker, Prince Bauben, D. Cowie, Callum Paterson, Bjørn Johnsen, Tony Watt

St. Johnstone line-up

Zander Clark, Steven Anderson, Joe Shaughnessy, Paul Paton, Richard Foster, Brian Easton, Blair Alston, Chris Millar, David Wotherspoon, Danny Swanson, Steven MacLean