St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson has made two changes from last weekend's late defeat by Motherwell.

Defender Alex Iacovitti makes his first start since August as he returns from injury. Forward Mikael Mandron is also in from the start.

Toyosi Olusanya and Alex Gogic are the players to make way, with only the former making the bench.

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BBC Sport Scotland at Easter Road

The Hibernian fans arriving in Edinburgh's east quarter will be looking for a similar type of performance witnessed in the past few weeks - but with a little more composure in front of goal.

The fact they will be off bottom spot as a consequence of a win today should be the only incentive the players need.

County have their own record to break and hope a winless away run of 15 months comes to an end here in the Scottish capital.

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Simo Valakari makes two changes from the 1-1 draw at Aberdeen.

Bozo Mikulic, who pulled out in the warm-up last week, and Adama Sidibeh are in from the start in place of Sven Sprangler, who is suspended, and Kyle Cameron.

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Will Ferry is a big loss for Jim Goodwin's Dundee United, with the left-back suspended for the visit to Motherwell. He is the only change from the 1-1 draw with Kilmarnock and is replaced by Glenn Middleton.

Middleton or Liverpool loanee Luca Stephenson could step into the left wing-back role, or there could be a change of shape using Kevin Holt's versatility.

There is a boost on the bench as Ross Graham returns from injury to be named among the substitutes.

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Stuart Kettlewell is without last weekend's match winner Tony Watt, with the on loan striker unable to play against his parent club.

He is replaced by Tawanda Maswanhise. The Zimbabwean striker is one of three changes, as Marvin Kaleta and Harry Paton also start.

Jair Tavares drops to the bench, as does youngster Ewan Wilson. There's also a space for Tom Sparrow, who is returning from injury alongside Stephen O'Donnell.

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Ross County make three changes from the team defeated by Rangers.

James Brown starts in place of Michee Efete, Kacper Lopata comes into the team at centre-back and Alex Samuel is preferred to Ronan Hale up front.

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Hibs head coach David Gray makes three changes to the side that lost 3-0 to Celtic last weekend.

Chris Cadden replaces Lewis Miller at right-back, while Junior Hoilett and Dwight Gayle also come into the starting XI, with Jordan Obita dropping to the bench and Mykola Kuharevich missing out entirely through injury.

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BBC Sport Scotland at McDiarmid Park

St Johnstone last weekend earned a deserved draw at Aberdeen – one could even make a case they deserved all three points at Pittodrie.

And that kind of sums up where they are at just now – a team undoubtedly improving, but one that isn’t winning enough games. They will see this afternoon’s McDiarmid Park encounter as a great opportunity to turn some of that progress into three points.

Ninth-placed St Johnstone are just two points off the bottom but if they win today they will move to within a point of seventh-placed St Mirren.

In terms of the visitors, just a week or so ago it looked like a corner had been turned with regards to their form as they served up a four-game unbeaten run – one which consisted of three wins and a draw.

Now, they find themselves travelling to Perth on the back of two defeats.

A win today and they will undoubtedly continue to look above them in the table. Another defeat may well have some of their fans starting to look over their shoulders.

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St Johnstone: Rae, Mikulic, Sanders, Neilson, Holt, Clark, Wright, Sidbeh, Smith, Kirk, Kimpioka.

Substitutes: Sinclair, Cameron, Carey, Essel, Kucheriavyi, McPake, Keltjens, Franczak, Brookfield.

St Mirren: Balcombe, Tanser, Iacovitti, Taylor, O'Hara, Mandron, McMenamin, Kiltie, Fraser, Bwomono, Phillips.

Substitutes: Urminsky, Kenny, John, Smyth, Boyd-Munce, Idowu, Scott, Mooney, Olusanya.

Motherwell: Oxborough, Kaleta, Casey, Gordon, Blaney, Seddon, Paton, Halliday, Miller, Maswanhise, Stamatelopoulos.

Substitutes: Hegyi, O'Donnell, Balmer, Zdravkovski, Sparrow, Nicholson, Wilson, Ebiye, Tavares.

Dundee United: Walton, Adegboyega, Gallagher, Holt, Strain, Sevelj, Babunski, Stephenson, Middleton, Dalby, Moult.

Substitutes: Richards, Graham, Trapanovski, Odada, Fotheringham, Van der Sande, Thomson, Stirton, Ubochioma.

Hibernian: Smith, C Cadden, O'Hora, Bushiri, Iredale, N Cadden, Triantis, Newell, Youan, Hoilett, Gayle.

Substitutes: Bursik, Levitt, Doyle-Hayes, Boyle, McKirdy, Kwon, Obita, Moriah-Welsh, Campbell.

Ross County: Hamilton, Brown, Wright, Lopata, Campbell, Harmon, Allardice, Randall, Nisbet, Chilvers, Samuel.

Substitutes: Amissah, Telfer, Leak, Efete, Loturi, White, Hale, Reid, Denholm.

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• Queen of the South v Stenhousemuir

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• Peterhead v East Fife
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• Hibernian v Ross County
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It's Saturday and if you're not out doing Christmas shopping - or even if you are - spend some time with the SPFL with BBC Scotland.

Three games in the Premiership, four in the Championship and full cards in Leagues 1 and 2 - let's get to it.

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