St Mirren go to Firhill for the first leg of their play-off final on Thursday, with the second game in front of their own fans on Monday.<\/p>\n
Those supporters might be feeling a bit better about the nerve-wracking contest given this bright display, following on from Tuesday’s 2-0 win away to Aberdeen.<\/p>\n
Only scoring once will be a concern though, as the Buddies end the regular season with just 30 goals from their 38 outings.<\/p>\n
Liam Donnelly, Richard King, Jacob Devaney, Killian Phillips and Mikael Mandron were among those omitted from the starting XI before the showdown with Thistle.<\/p>\n
Douglas took his opportunity with both hands and was a real buzzbomb presence, full of running and clever movement.<\/p>\n
He was given a rousing ovation when replaced late on and could be a very handy option from the bench in the vital double-header to come.<\/p>\n
The other worry for St Mirren is Thistle will be far more motivated than United, who turned in a rather half-hearted display.<\/p>\n
The visitors had seventh place wrapped up prior to kick-off and end the campaign with only 10 wins after a 15th draw.<\/p>\n
Jim Goodwin’s team began the post-split fixtures in style with a 3-0 derby victory at Tannadice but a ho-hum season has been allowed to fizzle out with a four-game winless run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Mirren go to Firhill for the first leg of their play-off final on Thursday, with the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-589206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}