Premiership duel: Close contest expected between Aberdeen and Hibernian

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Premiership: A pair of contenders who have played fine as yet. Get smart on Aberdeen - Hibernian with this full guide!

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hibernian have scored away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Aberdeen form and stats

Aberdeen have played 5 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). It’s been three wins in a row for Aberdeen here at Pittodrie Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Aberdeen lost their last game at Rangers (placed 2nd) after a 1-4 scoreline. Aberdeen's goalkeeper Roos was extremely busy against Rangers, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning seven saves. McCrorie, defender, was given a rating of 7.4/10 in that game, top of the team. McCrorie won 8 of 9 duels.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Motherwell with a 2-1 scoreline.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Aberdeen as they are travelling to their away game against Livingston in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.

Aberdeen always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Pittodrie Stadium with 17 goals in 5 league games.

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Hibernian form and stats

There's been little loot from Hibernian's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the Premiership. Hibernian only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 0 draws. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Hibernian have lost on their last two travels.

Hibernian go into this game after a win, the home game against St. Mirren that ended 3-0. That victory felt nice as this side had gone three league matches without winning. Midfielder Henderson was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.42. Henderson scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against St. Johnstone.

After this away game Hibernian return home for a Premiership game against Ross County. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Hibernian as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. Hibernian struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 10 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Hibernian - Aberdeen 3-1 was the result in these participants' last H2H fixture, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - one - four (Aberdeen wins - draws - Hibernian wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenB. Miovski
B. Miovski
8 goals
AberdeenL. Lopes
L. Lopes
5 goals
HibernianM. Boyle
M. Boyle
5 goals

Aberdeen missing players

Hibernian missing players

Aberdeen Hibernian
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 5 0 Played P 1 6 13
6 4 0 Won W 0 2 6
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
5 1 0 Lost L 1 4 5
23 17 0 Scored S 1 5 17
20 5 0 Conceded C 6 10 16
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
92% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 62%
67% 80% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 46%
58% 80% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 17% 23%
42% 80% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 17% 8%
58% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 46%
25% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 38%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 15%
 
4.5 5.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 2 9.3 7.3
6.2 5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 4.7 4.5
1.8 1.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.8 2.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.6 14.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 9 16.8 16.2
3.7 4.8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5.2 5.5
52% 71% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 16% 24%
 
14.3 9.4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 21 11.5 9.8
4.5 2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9 3.7 2.9
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 Hibernian have scored away.
  • Aberdeen have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Aberdeen's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Hibernian have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Hibernian 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 11 10 0 1 39 9 5 5 0 0 16 2 6 5 0 1 23 7 30 30
2 Rangers 12 9 2 1 31 11 7 6 1 0 21 3 5 3 1 1 10 8 20 29
3 Hibernian 13 6 2 5 17 16 7 4 2 1 12 6 6 2 0 4 5 10 1 20
4 Aberdeen 12 6 1 5 23 20 5 4 0 1 17 5 7 2 1 4 6 15 3 19
5 St. Mirren 12 6 1 5 12 17 7 5 1 1 8 3 5 1 0 4 4 14 -5 19
6 Motherwell 13 5 1 7 16 16 6 1 1 4 4 9 7 4 0 3 12 7 0 16
7 St. Johnstone 13 5 1 7 14 17 6 2 1 3 5 4 7 3 0 4 9 13 -3 16
8 Livingston 11 5 1 5 9 13 6 4 0 2 6 4 5 1 1 3 3 9 -4 16
9 Hearts 11 4 2 5 18 20 5 3 0 2 12 12 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2 14
10 Kilmarnock 13 3 3 7 9 20 6 3 2 1 8 10 7 0 1 6 1 10 -11 12
11 Ross County 12 2 3 7 6 20 6 1 2 3 4 12 6 1 1 4 2 8 -14 9
12 Dundee United 13 2 3 8 11 26 7 2 0 5 6 16 6 0 3 3 5 10 -15 9

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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.