Hearts 2-0 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Tuesday 18 January 2022

Result

Hearts 2-0 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Tuesday 18 January 2022, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

Hearts · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-0 St. Johnstone: match report

Hearts beat St. Johnstone 2-0 in the Premiership on Tuesday 18 January 2022. The half-time score was 0-0.

Josh Ginnelly opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Hearts's goals came from Josh Ginnelly (46') and Josh Ginnelly (75'). St. Johnstone did not score.

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

Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 36 points from 20 and St. Johnstone 12th on 14 points from 20. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 61 points, and St. Johnstone 11th with 35.

Hearts lined up in a 3-4-3 and St. Johnstone in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Barrie McKay of Hearts (9.1), ahead of Craig Gordon (8.3).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 46'Goal · Josh GinnellyHearts · 1-0
  • 60'Yellow card · D. ClearySt. Johnstone
  • 70'Yellow card · Murray DavidsonSt. Johnstone
  • 73'Yellow card · John SouttarHearts
  • 75'Goal · Josh GinnellyHearts · 2-0
  • 89'Yellow card · Michael SmithHearts
  • 90+3'Yellow card · L. GordonSt. Johnstone

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Hearts line-up (3-4-3)

Craig Gordon, John Souttar, Craig Halkett, Stephen Kingsley, Michael Smith, Cammy Devlin, Peter Haring, Alex Cochrane, Barrie McKay, Josh Ginnelly, Gary Mackay-Steven

St. Johnstone line-up (3-5-2)

Zander Clark, Dan Cleary, Liam Gordon, Jamie McCart, Michael O'Halloran, Murray Davidson, Jacob Butterfield, Cameron MacPherson, Callum Booth, Nadir Çiftçi, Stevie May