National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Ross County or Aberdeen that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for County and Aberdeen.
Ross County form and stats
The supporters are hoping that Ross County will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the match against Aberdeen. As you see from the result above, Ross County suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Defender Baldwin got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.34/10. Baldwin hit one key pass and won 7 of 12 duels.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Premiership home game that ended 1-1 versus Livingston.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Premiership game versus Hearts in only three days. This game is also played here at Global Energy Stadium.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Ross County, who have participated in three training matches. County have won 2 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 1 game.
Aberdeen form and stats
Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.Aberdeen are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the game against Ross County. As you can tell from the results above, Aberdeen was very dominant against Ross County, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with McGrath, Miovski (2) and Lopes providing the goals. The attacker Miovski got a match rating of 9.35 in that game. Miovski scored two goals, served one assist and hit two key passes.
A loss, in the Europa Conference League away at Eintracht Frankfurt, earlier.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Aberdeen manager Robson as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Rangers.
It's a day of discovery for Aberdeen as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Aberdeen have played four with the results W3-D0-L1 (win-draw-lost). In these games Aberdeen has scored {14 goals} and conceded 4 times.
Head 2 Head
Aberdeen have managed a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without losing (2-2-0) when playing Ross County.Top Goalscorers
  B. Miovski 4 goals |   S. Murray 2 goals |  C. Randall 1 goals |
Ross County missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Ross County | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 47 | 17 | Scored | S | 27 | 43 | ||
| 44 | 16 | Conceded | C | 22 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 19% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 6.2 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 10.7 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 11.3 | ||
| 4 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4 | ||
| 47% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 43% | ||
| 13.2 | 13.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 13.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
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