Premiership fixture lowdown: Aberdeen vs Hearts

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 16.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Which team will win when Hearts travel to Aberdeen? In this preview you'll get all the relevant news and stats needed to make a prediction.

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hearts have scored away.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa Conference League game only three days ago. That game was also an away game, at Fiorentina. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Aberdeen form and stats

Overall Premiership stats playing at home this season for Aberdeen are 3-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). Two home wins in a row for Aberdeen bring valid hopes of a third.

The fans are hoping that Aberdeen will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the match against Dundee United (placed 11th). As you see from the result above, Aberdeen suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Scales, defender, was given a rating of 7.05/10 in that game, top of the team. Scales won 11 of 16 duels.

Ahead of that match, Aberdeen won a home game hosting Kilmarnock (4-1).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Aberdeen as they have a new game in only three days, a League Cup match thankfully also at home. Partick Thistle are visiting.

It's goals goals goals for Aberdeen who have scored 15 goals from 4 league home games. On the other hand, Aberdeen have conceded 5 goals.

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Hearts form and stats

The visitors are W1-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.

Two away matches in a row for Hearts, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-5 against Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League. The attacker Humphrys got a match rating of 7.43 in that game. Humphrys scored one goal, hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 2-2 draw at Kilmarnock's stadium before that.

The visiting Hearts have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. 6 goals have been conceded by Hearts in these games.

Head 2 Head

Data for the previous ten meetings involving these two contenders are: four wins for Aberdeen, three draws and three wins for Hearts. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenB. Miovski
B. Miovski
7 goals
HeartsL. Shankland
L. Shankland
4 goals
AberdeenL. Lopes
L. Lopes
3 goals

Aberdeen missing players

Hearts missing players

Aberdeen Hearts
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 2 Played P 2 5 9
4 3 1 Won W 1 1 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 2 2
4 1 1 Lost L 1 2 3
18 15 7 Scored S 3 6 15
15 5 3 Conceded C 1 6 14
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 80% 89%
67% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 67%
67% 100% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 44%
44% 100% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 22%
56% 75% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 56%
22% 25% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 11%
22% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 33%
 
5.1 5.5 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 4.6 4.2
6.2 6 7.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.2 4.6
1.6 0.8 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
11.8 13.2 16 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.2 11.3
3.6 4.5 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.8 3.9
56% 83% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 43% 43%
 
12.3 8.8 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 19.5 15.6 14.6
4.2 2.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.8 4.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hearts have scored away.
  • Aberdeen have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Aberdeen's home-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 9 8 0 1 29 5 4 4 0 0 10 1 5 4 0 1 19 4 24 24
2 Rangers 9 7 1 1 24 8 5 5 0 0 16 1 4 2 1 1 8 7 16 22
3 Hibernian 10 5 2 3 12 8 5 3 2 0 8 4 5 2 0 3 4 4 4 17
4 St. Mirren 9 5 0 4 10 13 5 4 0 1 6 2 4 1 0 3 4 11 -3 15
5 Hearts 9 4 2 3 15 14 4 3 0 1 9 8 5 1 2 2 6 6 1 14
6 Aberdeen 9 4 1 4 18 15 4 3 0 1 15 5 5 1 1 3 3 10 3 13
7 Motherwell 10 4 1 5 13 12 4 1 1 2 2 5 6 3 0 3 11 7 1 13
8 Livingston 9 4 0 5 7 12 5 3 0 2 5 4 4 1 0 3 2 8 -5 12
9 St. Johnstone 10 3 1 6 11 15 5 1 1 3 4 4 5 2 0 3 7 11 -4 10
10 Kilmarnock 10 2 2 6 8 19 5 2 2 1 7 10 5 0 0 5 1 9 -11 8
11 Dundee United 10 2 2 6 9 22 6 2 0 4 6 15 4 0 2 2 3 7 -13 8
12 Ross County 10 2 2 6 5 18 5 1 1 3 3 11 5 1 1 3 2 7 -13 8

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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.