After a positive run of form late last year took them onto 24 points from 17 Scottish Premiership outings, St Johnstone would have to endure a tough losing run, beginning with a 4-1 beating at the hands of Celtic before Christmas.
Callum Davidson’s men were unable to bounce back from that result as they went on to suffer defeats to Hearts, Dundee United and Aberdeen, before the run was stretched to five games as they were beaten 4-2 at home to Livingston.
In their bid to make a return to winning ways, the Saints then faced a tough test against Rangers at Ibrox last weekend and again left empty-handed as Glen Kamara and James Tavernier got on the
scoresheet in a 2-0 home triumph, leaving them towards the bottom end of the division with their tally still at 24 points after 23 matches ahead of a crucial contest away at fellow strugglers Motherwell on Wednesday.
Dreyq Wright gave Davidson’s men the perfect start in that game, putting them ahead inside five minutes, and after Melker Hallberg doubled the lead early in the second half, they would stand strong to see out an eighth league win of the campaign and halt their slide.
With that result increasing their cushion over the bottom two back to seven points, the Saints will now be keen to build an improved run and continue climbing back up the Premiership table, but they face another particularly difficult test at the weekend as the league leaders arrive in Perth.
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In their bid to retain the Scottish Premiership title this season, Ange Postecoglou’s men have continuously kept themselves at the summit of the division and now find themselves unbeaten in 17 league matches since the beginning of October, when they suffered their only league defeat of the campaign thus far at the hands of St Mirren.
Of those games since that slip-up, the Glasgow outfit have added 16 further notches to their wins column, firstly putting 12 straight three-point hauls together
before keeping rivals Rangers at bay as Kyogo Furuhashi levelled the Old Firm Derby at two goals apiece in the dying minutes after the turn of the year
