SlipsTips Tips: St Mirren vs Livingston

After delivering winning selections in three of his last four featured columns, SlipsTips shares his favourite fancy from the penultimate round of fixtures from the Scottish Premiership on Wednesday night.

St Mirren vs Livingston (Wednesday, 19:45)

St Mirren will be looking to make it three Scottish Premiership wins on the spin when they lock horns with Livingston on Wednesday night.

The Saints snapped a five-game losing streak with a hard-fought 1-0 win at St Johnstone 10 days ago before brushing aside basement-club Dundee 2-0 at St Mirren Park on Saturday.

Seventh-placed Livingston, meanwhile, are currently on a four-match unbeaten run in the top-flight following their 1-1 draw at home to St Johnstone on Saturday.

In what is a very tricky match to call between two evenly-matched sides, I'm happy to highlight an alternative offering by heading to the team cards market.

Livingston are priced up at 5/6 with Sky Bet to receive 20 or more booking points during this match and that price just looks too big to me.

David Martindale’s men have been the most-ill disciplined team in the Scottish Premiership this season so far, averaging a league-high 2.53 yellow cards per-game.

Away from home, the Lions’ bookings per 90 tally sits at a chunky 2.23, with the team from the Tony Macaroni totting up 20+ Booking Points in 14 of their 17 top-flight road trips this term to date.

What’s more, Kevin Clancy will be the man in the middle for this midweek match-up, an appointment that immediately had my eyes drawn to the card markets.

The Scottish whistler has been the most card-happy operator in the Scottish Premiership this season, averaging 5.33 cards per-game, and that only adds to the appeal of siding with the aforementioned wager.

With all things considered, as well as the fact that Livingston have received two or more cards in a whopping 31 (86.1%) of their 36 league games this season so far, backing the visitors to pick up 20+ Booking Points in Paisley is a price that definitely represents value.