Early betting lines indicate Aberdeen advantage hosting Hamilton Academical at Pittodrie Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 06.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Aberdeen leading Hamilton Academical by 23 points. Match preview to follow:

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals (57) in Premiership

The visiting Hamilton Academical played their last game only three days ago, a Premiership match.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Hamilton Academical have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 9-6-24 (win-draw-loss) from 39 matches.

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Aberdeen form and stats

9 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Aberdeen have to build on here at Pittodrie Stadium in the Premiership.

Aberdeen are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Celtic. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Kilmarnock in a game that was won 1-0.

Aberdeen has scored 22 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Aberdeen's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Hamilton Academical form and stats

Hamilton Academical, who have the most conceded goals (57) in Premiership, have only collected 14 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 4-2-9 (15 played).

Academical played 1-1 against St. Johnstone in their previous match. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Hibernian wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

Hamilton Academical find the net regularly in their away games. 17 goals from 15 away fixtures in the league. Academical have conceded 33 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Aberdeen and Hamilton Academical have met before this season: Hamilton Academical - Aberdeen 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Aberdeen victories, two draws and one Hamilton Academical win. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenL. Ferguson
L. Ferguson
8 goals
Hamilton AcademicalR. Callachan
R. Callachan
8 goals
AberdeenR. Hedges
R. Hedges
4 goals

Aberdeen missing players

Hamilton Academical missing players

Aberdeen Hamilton Academical
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 16 5 Played P 5 15 30
13 9 4 Won W 0 4 6
9 3 0 Drew D 0 2 7
9 4 1 Lost L 5 9 17
32 22 6 Scored S 3 17 29
30 16 3 Conceded C 20 33 57
81% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
58% 69% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 87% 80%
32% 44% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 53% 43%
13% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 33% 23%
10% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 60% 33% 20%
29% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 40% 53% 47%
48% 44% 80% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
42% 31% 20% Failed to Score F T 60% 33% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1.2 1.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 1.7 1.7
3 2 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
10.2 10.5 12 Shots (avg) S ( 5.2 8.2 8.1
3.2 3.3 3.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.4 2.4 2.8
32% 42% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 47% 35%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hamilton Academical have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals (33) away in Premiership
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals (57) in Premiership
  • Hamilton Academical have the most conceded goals in the first half (27) in Premiership

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rangers 31 27 4 0 74 9 15 15 0 0 44 2 16 12 4 0 30 7 65 85
2 Celtic 31 20 7 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 15 9 4 2 35 13 42 67
3 Hibernian 30 15 7 8 41 28 16 6 5 5 19 19 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 52
4 Aberdeen 31 13 9 9 32 30 16 9 3 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 48
5 Livingston 30 11 7 12 36 36 15 5 3 7 16 18 15 6 4 5 20 18 0 40
6 St. Mirren 31 10 9 12 29 34 17 4 7 6 14 21 14 6 2 6 15 13 -5 39
7 Dundee United 31 8 11 12 28 43 15 5 4 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 35
8 St. Johnstone 31 8 10 13 32 40 14 3 4 7 6 13 17 5 6 6 26 27 -8 34
9 Motherwell 31 8 8 15 28 46 15 3 3 9 13 28 16 5 5 6 15 18 -18 32
10 Ross County 30 7 5 18 22 54 15 3 4 8 12 27 15 4 1 10 10 27 -32 26
11 Kilmarnock 31 7 4 20 27 43 15 4 3 8 18 21 16 3 1 12 9 22 -16 25
12 Hamilton Academical 30 6 7 17 29 57 15 2 5 8 12 24 15 4 2 9 17 33 -28 25

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Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.