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Scottish Premiership: St Mirren v Hearts BBC Radio Scotland This video can not be played Scottish Premiership: St Mirren v Hearts BBC Radio Scotland Win would take Hearts nine points clear at top of Scottish Premiership Halkett sent off for chopping down Devaney just outside the penalty box Fraser follow-up header disallowed for St Mirren offside Penalty given for Milne trip on Richardson but overturned after review shows foul outside the area Incredible Schwolow save to deny Mandron from close range Freckleton powers in header from 88th minute corner Follow all Scottish scores Nick Mc Pheat FT: St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Jonathan Sutherland BBC Sport Scotland This is karma of sorts for Miguel Freckleton. He had a goal wrongly ruled out - according to head of refs Willie Collum - back in October, which would’ve put St Mirren 3-1 up against Hearts. It ended 2-2 that night. FT: St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Match-winner Miguel Freckleton leads the St Mirren celebrations in front of their rowdy ultras section as the away end empties. Hearts remain six points clear, but an opportunity has been presented to the chasing pack tomorrow. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Will we look back at this night in May as a pivotal result? Who knows. It's certainly a huge win for St Mirren, who end a seven-game winless run in the league to break 10-man Hearts. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts But the delivery is terrible from Sabah Kerjota and that's surely that. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts The keeper is up. .. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Tomas Magnusson has been taken out and Hearts have one final chance to deliver with a free-kick. .. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Final roll of the dice from Derek Mc Innes, Sabah Kerjota and Ageu replacing Marc Leonard and Michael Steinwender. St Mirren 1-0 Hearts Hearts are staring at just a third league defeat of the season. Three minutes added. Miguel Freckleton The set-piece kings, undone by a corner! Miguel Freckleton rises to power in a header from a Declan John corner. How big a moment in the season is that? St Mirren 0-0 Hearts Another Alexander Schwolow save. This one is much easier than some of the others as he parries wide a shot that was going well wide anyway. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts More desperate Hearts defending thwarts some pretty uninspiring and hopeful attacking play by the 11 men of St Mirren. Four minutes of normal time remain. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts I'm no lip-reader, but I think Derek Mc Innes has just told the linesman to "use your [redacted] eyes". The Hearts boss thinks Oisin Mc Entee was fouled, but the officials said no. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts Dan Nlundulu tries a mazy run but catches Michael Steinwender and the Hearts defender takes his chance to let the referee know he's been fouled. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts Eighty minutes. Hearts fans, would you take a point now? St Mirren 0-0 Hearts It's now time for Tomas Magnusson and Elton Kabangu to come on. Pierre Landry Kabore and Beni Baningime are off. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts A hopeless effort from Roland Idowu goes so far off target. Stephen Robinson is telling his St Mirren players to calm it down. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts In the meantime, Stephen Robinson has removed Mikael Mandron for Kion Etete. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts Derek Mc Innes looks to his bench and he's going to throw on Tomas Magnusson and Elton Kabangu. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts Richard King takes a yellow for catching Claudio Braga high as the Hearts man looks to break. St Mirren 0-0 Hearts St Mirren are creating absolutely nothing centrally. Their only hope seems to be using the wide areas, and even then Hearts are dealing with that. Match report to appear here. Last Updated 3rd February 2026 at 21: 54 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Stephen Robinson Formation: 3 - 5 - 2 Manager: Derek Mc Innes Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Manager: Stephen Robinson Formation: 3 - 5 - 2 Manager: Derek Mc Innes Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Scottish Premiership All competitions All competitions All competitions St. Mirren have only lost one of their last seven Scottish Premiership games at home to Hearts (W2 D4), a 1-2 reverse in April 2024. Hearts have only suffered one defeat in their last eight league meetings with St. Mirren (W5 D2), going down 2-1 in September 2024 in what was Steven Naismith’s final game in charge of the club. St. Mirren have only won one of their last 33 league games against opponents starting the day top of the Scottish top-flight table (D4 L28), a 2-0 home win over Celtic in September 2022. Hearts are unbeaten in their last seven Scottish Premiership games played on a Tuesday (W5 D2) since a 1-3 defeat at Celtic in January 2018. Only against Ross County (9) and Motherwell (8) has Hearts’ Lawrence Shankland scored more Scottish Premiership goals than he has against St. Mirren (7), with the forward netting five in his last seven league appearances versus the Buddies. Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.
