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Every week there are new stats that surprise me, even though I'm watching every game: St Mirren had kept a clean sheet in four of their latest five games, but the roof well and truly fell in tonight. Motherwell have now kept 12 clean sheets and conceded just three goals in their last 15 league games. They have now lost only three league games. Only second-top Rangers have lost fewer. They are now unbeaten in their latest four visits to SMiSA Stadium, all without conceding a goal, and have suffered just one defeat in their last 12 league visits.

A toss up between this one and the Celtic one that some of their fans described as the most dominant display from a domestic side that they could remember.

The exact opposite of a game where I thought we'd need to grind out a single goal win.

Mikey has a man crush on JBA - and rightly so.

A bit silkier than our side that beat his St Mirren team in the Scottish Cup.

Must be a while since we scored 5 away from home in the league.

Relegation battle in Paisley. Long shot title chase in Motherwell.

No, I'm not adding "the team" as an option. Pick the bones out of that one...

Been waiting to use it, but promise I won't use it again.

That was a Thor yin for St Mirren.

We don't need diving cheats in our team. We're better than that. We've been passing them off the pitch. That's much more satisfying.

Agreed. I hope JBA sorts that out.

Never thought I'd see the day when I wanted 2 St Mirren players to stay on the park - and one of them was Gogic.

Unless he scratched his eye with a fingernail, there was nothing in that for even a yellow. VAR should have sorted that one out.

What is this ref doing?

Said thunders it home.

Apparently, yes.

The current wording of the rule: "Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off." So he probably thought it wasn't an obvious goal-scoring opportunity - which is probably true as the ball was going out. Although I have read that wording 3 times now, and I'm not exactly sure.

He should, but gives us the chance to go at him in the second half.

A 3rd goal should kill it off.

Playing some good stuff considering the opposition and conditions. Hope Fergie is enjoying it.

Now, of course, JT should be in Gogic's face for the rest of the game.

Nah, Fadinger's was fast, high and late. It was the high that did him.

As much as I hate Gogic, I think it should be a yellow.

Gogic doing to Slattery what he did to Just a Fir Park.