St. Johnstone 1-2 Motherwell: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 15 December 2018

Result

St. Johnstone 1-2 Motherwell

Premiership · Saturday 15 December 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

St. Johnstone · Motherwell · Premiership predictions

St. Johnstone 1-2 Motherwell: match report

St. Johnstone were beaten by Motherwell 1-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 15 December 2018. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Tom Aldred opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. St. Johnstone's goal came from Jason Kerr (83'). Motherwell scored through Tom Aldred (2') and Danny Johnson (17').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 1 yellow card; Motherwell received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 6th on 28 points from 16 and Motherwell 9th on 15 points from 16. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 6th with 52 points, and Motherwell 8th with 51.

St. Johnstone lined up in a 4-4-2 and Motherwell in a 3-5-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 St. Johnstone wins, 2 draws and 1 for Motherwell.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Tom AldredMotherwell · 0-1
  • 17'Goal · Danny JohnsonMotherwell · 0-2
  • 26'Yellow card · Charles DunneMotherwell
  • 26'Missed penalty · Matty KennedySt. Johnstone
  • 44'Yellow card · Allan CampbellMotherwell
  • 46'Yellow card · Tony WattSt. Johnstone
  • 82'Yellow card · Oleksandr ShovkovskyiMotherwell
  • 83'Goal · Jason KerrSt. Johnstone · 1-2
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Carl McHughMotherwell

Head-to-head

10 meetings: St. Johnstone 7, draws 2, Motherwell 1.

Team news

St. Johnstone line-up (4-4-2)

Zander Clark, Richard Foster, Joe Shaughnessy, Jason Kerr, Scott Tanser, Matty Kennedy, Murray Davidson, Liam Craig, David Wotherspoon, Tony Watt, David McMillan

Motherwell line-up (3-5-2)

Mark Gillespie, Tom Aldred, Christian Mbulu, Charles Dunne, Liam Grimshaw, Allan Campbell, Edi Murtado, David Turnbull, Richard Tait, Danny Johnson, Curtis Main