St Mirren are nonetheless ready for his or her first aim of the William Hill Premiership season after being held to a 0-0 draw at residence to Motherwell.
The guests had been the higher aspect for a lot of the opening hour earlier than Stephen Robinson’s aspect, who misplaced 1-0 to Celtic of their opening sport of the marketing campaign, went on to dominate the latter levels with out discovering the online.
Keanu Baccus and Alex Gogic each went near scoring, solely to be denied by Properly goalkeeper Calum Ward.
St Mirren made two adjustments from the staff that performed Celtic. Baccus went straight into the beginning line-up after returning to the membership on Thursday from Mansfield, whereas there was a debut for Miguel Freckleton. Fraser Taylor and Richard King dropped to the bench.
Motherwell additionally made two alterations following their draw with Rangers. In got here Ibrahim Mentioned and Stephen O’Donnell to interchange Apostolos Stamatelopoulos and Liam Gordon.
Former Properly midfielder Mark O’Hara had the primary probability for St Mirren inside the opening minute however sliced his half-volley extensive.
Mentioned nearly marked his first Motherwell begin with a aim, however ‘keeper Shamal George did effectively to repel his shot and the hazard was cleared.
Motherwell had been wanting the extra dominant aspect halfway via the primary half, however Johnny Koutroumbis’ bold long-range effort flew effectively off track. He later hobbled off injured.
Tawanda Maswanhise got here nearer with a shot from the left that curled simply extensive because the guests pushed for a half-time lead and Saints struggled to comprise them.
The house aspect made two adjustments at half-time to attempt to regain a foothold within the contest, with Evan Mooney and Tunmise Sobowale changing Roland Idowu and Jayden Richardson.
Motherwell goalkeeper Ward was then a relieved man after his scuffed clearance went straight to Mooney. The substitute fed Mikael Mandron, however his shot was blocked and O’Hara couldn’t tuck away the rebound.
On the different finish Geroge did effectively to push away Callum Slattery’s harmful free-kick that appeared destined for the underside nook.
St Mirren replied with Baccus teeing up Mooney, who stabbed his effort off track.
It was a way more even contest after the interval and Saints had been unlucky to not break the impasse when Ward made an excellent save to maintain out Gogic’s header from Conor McMenamin’s centre.
Baccus then burst into the field however couldn’t get his pushed effort on track from a decent angle.
Killian Phillips tried his luck with a low pushed effort not lengthy after, however Ward saved comfortably earlier than stretching to maintain out one other late Baccus strike.
