St Johnstone needed one point from this meeting with Aberdeen but took all three thanks to a first-half Callum Hendry goal. It means they avoid the ignominy of a nervous final day – this result means that Dundee are officially confined to Championship football next season – but the dispelling of anxiety in Perthshire last night is a mere a stay of execution.
St Johnstone still have a play-off to negotiate in order to hang on to their top flight status with Callum Davidson’s side now facing the winners of the Arbroath v Inverness game in the first leg of the Premiership play-off next Friday night.
