Home advantage could prove decisive in Aberdeen - Motherwell battle

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 13.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Aberdeen oppose Motherwell for fame and success.

Aberdeen and Motherwell should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Aberdeen form and stats

All-inclusive Premiership stats playing at home this season for Aberdeen are 1-0-0 (wins-draws-losses).

A nice win for Aberdeen last time playing, versus St. Mirren. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-1 with Miovski (2), Clarkson and Duk scoring for the victors. At last, a league victory after three matches without. Midfield player Clarkson got a match rating of 8.14 in that game, the max score being 10. Clarkson scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 72 successful passes (of 82 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Celtic.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Aberdeen handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

Early season league goal statistics from Aberdeen's 1 home game: 4 goals, 1 conceded.

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Motherwell form and stats

Only one away game in the Premiership so far for Motherwell and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 7 victories, 3 draws and 5 losses from 15 travels.

The manager Alexander was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Fir Park. Motherwell suffered a 1-2 loss to St. Johnstone (placed 7th). Late heartbreak for Motherwell in the St. Johnstone match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime. Midfield player Goss was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.15/10. Goss hit one key pass and had 59 successful passes (of 70 total).

Prior to that result Motherwell won their away game at St. Mirren. The scoreline was 1-0.

Motherwell are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

Motherwell have the goal stats of 1-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the preceeding ten meetings between these two participants are: three wins for Aberdeen, two draws and five wins for Motherwell. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenB. Miovski
B. Miovski
2 goals
AberdeenL. Lopes
L. Lopes
1 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
1 goals

Aberdeen missing players

Motherwell missing players

Aberdeen Motherwell
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
1 1 0 Won W 0 1 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
4 4 0 Scored S 0 1 2
3 1 0 Conceded C 0 0 2
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 50%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3.5 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 3
6.5 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 8 7
1.5 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
5 5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 4.5
3.5 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 1.5
57% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 67%
 
12 2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12 8
5 2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 3

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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.