The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Aberdeen leading Kilmarnock by 21 points. Match preview to follow:
- Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Kilmarnock has the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Premiership. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Celtic.
This pitch has grass, which is not Kilmarnock's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Kilmarnock have performed like this: Played 44 matches resulting in 11 wins, 9 draws and 24 defeats with the goal stats 31-61 (scored/conceded).
Aberdeen form and stats
8 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Aberdeen have to build on here at Pittodrie Stadium in the Premiership.
Aberdeen haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 553 minutes ago. A. Considine scored that one.
Aberdeen lost their last game at Celtic (placed 2nd) after a 0-1 scoreline. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus St. Mirren.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Aberdeen's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played six games, won four matches, drawn one and lost one.
Aberdeen are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 21 goals in 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 16 goals have been conceded.
Kilmarnock form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kilmarnock, who have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership, so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-11 (win-draw-lose). Kilmarnock are generally in trouble as the list of consecutive losses is growing into an ugly monster. Regardless of home/away, the visitors have now lost seven in a row. It's been 6 weeks since they last avoided defeat. (The Hamilton Academical game.) It's all red in the travel logs of Kilmarnock, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
A. Tshibola was the last player to score for the away team. Kilmarnock haven't scored a league goal in the last 418 minutes.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Kilmarnock, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Rangers (placed 1st). A loss against Motherwell was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Kilmarnock when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing one and winning zero games.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kilmarnock as they have only managed to score 9 times from 15 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 21 goals have been conceded by Kilmarnock in these games.
Head 2 Head
Aberdeen and Kilmarnock have met before this season: Kilmarnock - Aberdeen 0-2. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: six wins for Aberdeen, four draws and zero wins for Kilmarnock. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  L. Ferguson 8 goals |   C. Burke 7 goals |  N. Kabamba 5 goals |
Aberdeen missing players
Kilmarnock missing players
| Aberdeen | Kilmarnock | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 15 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 15 | 29 |
| 12 | 8 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | 19 |
| 31 | 21 | 8 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 26 |
| 29 | 16 | 5 | Conceded | C | 9 | 21 | 41 |
| 79% | 87% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 67% | 72% |
| 34% | 47% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 20% | 34% |
| 14% | 13% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 13% | 21% |
| 10% | 13% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 31% | 40% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 20% | 20% | 34% |
| 48% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 13% | 14% |
| 41% | 33% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 80% | 67% | 52% |
| 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 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 10.3 | 10.5 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.6 | 7.5 | 8.9 |
| 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.8 |
| 33% | 43% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 32% | 32% |
- Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kilmarnock have scored away.
- Kilmarnock has the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership
- Kilmarnock has the fewest points (10) away in Premiership
- Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Kilmarnock is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| 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 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 69 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 61 | 79 |
| 2 | Celtic | 29 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 64 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 12 | 42 | 64 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 39 | 26 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 49 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 31 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 45 |
| 5 | Livingston | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 39 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 27 | 33 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 13 | -6 | 34 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 29 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 26 | 38 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -12 | 34 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 29 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 28 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 26 | -11 | 30 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 43 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | -17 | 28 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 29 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 26 | 41 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 21 | -15 | 24 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 54 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 31 | -26 | 24 |
| 12 | Ross County | 28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 53 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | -32 | 23 |
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