St Mirren host Hamilton Academical at the Simple Digital Arena tomorrow afternoon in matchday six of the Ladbrokes Premiership.
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Saints' return from the international break saw them head to Dingwall last weekend to face Ross County.
The Buddies were edged out by an injury time goal from Marcus Fraser who gave the Staggies a 2-1 win. Ex-Saint Ross Stewart had given County the lead before Tony Andreu equalised with his first goal for Saints. But County captain Fraser popped up at the end to give the home side all the points.
Jim Goodwin's side sit in 10th place in the Ladbrokes Premiership with one win from our opening five matches. That was a 1-0 win against Aberdeen at the Simple Digital Arena in August with Ilkay Durmus' early goal enough to get Saints off and running for the season.
Tomorrow's opponents sit one point above Saints in the league having won one and drawn one of their opening five league matches.
Accies four points have come from a 2-0 win at home to Kilmarnock and a 2-2 draw away to Hearts.
Brian Rice's side come into tomorrow's match having lost 1-0 at home to league leaders Celtic last week.
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The two sides met four times last season with Saints winning once, Hamilton winning twice and the other ending in a draw.
The last match between the two came in May as both battled for Ladbrokes Premiership survival. Kyle McAllister and Kyle Magennis netted late in the second-half to give St Mirren a 2-0 win at the Simple Digital Arena.
The only other meeting in 2019 saw the Buddies pick up a point at the FOYS Stadium when Anders Dreyer's penalty-kick earned us a point in a 1-1 draw.
Accies last win against Saints came at the Simple Digital Arena last December. First-half goals from Dougie Imrie and Ziggy Gordon had the visitors 2-0 in front. Stephen McGinn pulled a goal back for the Buddies right on the stroke of half-time to hand us a lifeline, but James Keatings netted 10 minutes after the break to seal a 3-1 win for the Lanarkshire side.
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Gary MacKenzie will miss out after a head knock at Ross County last weekend, while Cody Cooke remains sidelined due to a long-term injury.
"We'll go about it the way we always do. We have prepared properly during the week and we'll give Hamilton all the respect they deserve. They are a well-organised, hard-working team and it's obviously a big game.
"We are going into the game off of three narrow defeats which is never ideal. But I think the previous results could easily have been different.
"We need to be a bit more creative. We need to use our imagination a little bit more in the final third.
"We aren't having enough shots on target, we aren't getting enough crosses into the box so therefore we aren't getting the end product which is the goal.
"That's up to me as manager to work on that in the training ground and make sure we do something about it."
