Lewis Jamieson's first St Mirren goal grabbed Saints a share of the spoils against Hibernian. The 21-year-old netted in injury-time to give the Buddies a point
Saints boss Stephen Robinson made one change to the side that lost narrowly at Celtic Park last Wednesday with Mikael Mandron starting up top in place of Toyosi Olusanya. Keanu Baccus returned to the squad after missing the trip to Celtic, but he had to settle for a place on the bench.
It was Hibernian who struck first with Josh Campbell firing the visitors in front on 12 minutes. A Jordan Obita pass slipped under the legs of Alex Gogic allowing Dylan Vente to run on to it. The Dutch striker laid the ball back to the edge of the area to meet Campbell who slotted low into the bottom left corner.
10 minutes later Vente got himself in behind the Saints defence but the angle was too tight as he blasted wide of the target.
The visitors had two big opportunities in the space of two minutes to double their advantage. A goal-mouth scramble saw Zach Hemming push away a strike from Elie Youan and the Hibees forward was close to making it 2-0 on 35 minutes when he was found in space by a Campbell cross, but he smashed well wide.
The Buddies best chance of the first-half came in the final minutes of normal time when Greg Kiltie found himself on the end of a Mandron knock down. He smashed towards goal but saw it turned away by Obita.
Marcus Fraser came close to levelling seconds after the restart when he picked the ball out of the air and sent a volley just wide of the target.
Hemming had to be alert and his quick thinking denied the visitors a second less than five minutes into the second-half. Hibs goalscorer Campbell looked to pounce on a loose back pass from Gogic but the Saints goalkeeper was quick to charge out and smother the ball. How important that would prove to be just two minutes later when Saints were awarded a penalty after a VAR check. Richard Taylor was hauled down in the box and referee Steven McLean was advised to check the monitor. The referee pointed to the spot and captain Mark O'Hara smashed home to draw us level.
Mark O'Hara scored from the penalty spot to draw us level (Image: Allan Picken)
Hemming made a good save on the hour mark after Youan jinxed his way through and fired a low effort towards the left-hand post.
Hibernian re-took the lead with just over 20 minutes of the game remaining. Youan burst forward at speed and slipped in Vente who made his way into the box and rolled across the six yard area where it met Joe Newell who knocked into the net from close range.
The manager introduced Alex Greive and Jamieson as the Buddies searched for a leveller. And they both came close to making an instant impact with a brilliant delivery from Jamieson begging to be touched home by Toyosi Olusanya, before Greive turned a shot just behind the post two minutes later.
Saints pressed for an equaliser and it would finally come in the second minute of added on time when Jamieson fired home from just inside the area. His initial shot was blocked but it fell to the academy graduate again and he slammed into the net to score his first for St Mirren and earn us a point.
Full-Time: St Mirren 2-2 Hibernian
St Mirren: Hemming, Fraser, Gogic, Taylor, Strain, Boyd-Munce (Baccus 63), O'Hara (c), Tanser, Kiltie (Greive 77), Mandron (Olusanya 63), McMenamin (Jamieson 77)
Subs Not Used: Urminsky, Bolton, Dunne, Small, Flynn
Hibernian: Marshall, Whittaker (Miller 67), Fish, Rocky, Obita, Jair, Levitt (Jeggo 83), Newell, Youan, Campbell, Vente (Landers 85)
Subs Not Used: Wollacott, Hanlon, Boyle, Stevenson, Delferrière, Molotnikov
Referee: Steven McLean
Assistant Referee: Graham McNeillie
Assistant Referee: John McCrossan
Fourth Official: Duncan Williams
VAR: Sean Carr
