St. Johnstone 2-1 Motherwell: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 20 February 2016

Result

St. Johnstone 2-1 Motherwell

Premiership · Saturday 20 February 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

St. Johnstone · Motherwell · Premiership predictions

St. Johnstone 2-1 Motherwell: match report

St. Johnstone beat Motherwell 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 20 February 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Louis Moult opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. St. Johnstone's goals came from David Wotherspoon (43') and T. Scobbie (90+1'). Motherwell scored through Louis Moult (33').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards; Motherwell received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 6th on 33 points from 24 and Motherwell 9th on 30 points from 26. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 4th with 57 points, and Motherwell 6th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 St. Johnstone wins, 1 draw and 3 for Motherwell.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Goal · Louis MoultMotherwell · 0-1
  • 43'Goal · David WotherspoonSt. Johnstone · 1-1
  • 60'Yellow card · Darnell FisherSt. Johnstone
  • 84'Yellow card · T. ScobbieSt. Johnstone
  • 90'Yellow card · B. HallMotherwell
  • 90+1'Goal · T. ScobbieSt. Johnstone · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: St. Johnstone 6, draws 1, Motherwell 3.

Team news

St. Johnstone line-up

Alan Mannus, Tom Scobbie, Steven Anderson, Joe Shaughnessy, Darnell Fisher, Chris Millar, Murray Davidson, David Wotherspoon, Liam Craig, Craig Thomson, Steven MacLean

Motherwell line-up

Connor Ripley, Louis Laing, Stephen McManus, Chris Cadden, Ben Hall, Marvin Johnson, Keith Lasley, Morgaro Gomis, Wes Fletcher, L. Moult, James McFadden