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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Mon 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Premiership: High-profile vs modest, at least according to the league table. Aberdeen - Ross County. Home win or a surprise?

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals (14) in Premiership

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 performed here at Pittodrie Stadium this season with 6 wins from 9 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 3. It's trouble wherever Aberdeen are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

No payout for Aberdeen in their previous match, an away game at Kilmarnock that ended in defeat 1-2. Scales was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.12 out of 10. The defender Scales won 6 of 8 duels.

Heartbreak before that as Aberdeen lost 1-3 at St. Mirren's place.

Goal fest? Nobody knows about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 13 most recent league matches with this club has contained three or more goals.

Aberdeen are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Pittodrie Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 24 goals in 9 matches. On the other hand, Aberdeen have conceded 10 goals.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-1-6 (9 played). With the County losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

Ross County have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 248 minutes ago. White was the goal scorer.

Ross County are travelling again after losing away to Dundee United in their previous match (0-3). Defender Watson was the best team player with a rating of 7.05. Watson hit the woodwork once and won 6 of 7 duels.

A loss against Rangers was the result prior to that, in a home game.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 13 goals have been conceded by Ross County in these games. County has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Ross County have won at least one point in the last 5 matches (2-3-0) facing Aberdeen.

These competitors have met earlier this season: Ross County - Aberdeen 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenB. Miovski
B. Miovski
11 goals
AberdeenL. Lopes
L. Lopes
7 goals
AberdeenL. Clarkson
L. Clarkson
4 goals

Aberdeen missing players

Ross County missing players

Aberdeen Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 9 19
8 6 2 Won W 0 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
10 3 1 Lost L 3 6 12
33 24 7 Scored S 2 5 14
32 10 4 Conceded C 8 13 32
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
84% 78% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 56% 68%
68% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 44% 47%
53% 67% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 11% 21%
37% 67% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
63% 56% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 22% 42%
21% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 21%
16% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 56% 42%
 
4.4 4.1 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 1 2.8 3.1
5.8 4.9 6.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.8 6.5
1.9 1.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.3 2.3
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
11.6 11.2 13 Shots (avg) S ( 6 6.9 7.6
3.8 3.9 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 1.9 2.3
46% 69% 64% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 32%
 
15 13 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 22 17.2 16.3
4.3 3.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 3.9 4.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Aberdeen have scored more than double the goals of Ross County.
  • Aberdeen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals (14) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Premiership
  • Ross County have the the worst goal difference (-18) 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 Celtic 19 18 0 1 61 15 9 9 0 0 28 7 10 9 0 1 33 8 46 54
2 Rangers 19 14 3 2 44 18 10 9 1 0 28 5 9 5 2 2 16 13 26 45
3 Hearts 18 8 4 6 32 30 8 5 1 2 19 16 10 3 3 4 13 14 2 28
4 Aberdeen 19 8 1 10 33 32 9 6 0 3 24 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 1 25
5 St. Mirren 17 7 4 6 21 25 10 6 3 1 14 7 7 1 1 5 7 18 -4 25
6 St. Johnstone 19 7 3 9 24 29 9 3 2 4 10 9 10 4 1 5 14 20 -5 24
7 Livingston 18 7 3 8 17 27 9 5 1 3 9 9 9 2 2 5 8 18 -10 24
8 Hibernian 19 7 2 10 24 30 10 5 2 3 16 12 9 2 0 7 8 18 -6 23
9 Kilmarnock 19 5 4 10 17 33 9 5 2 2 13 14 10 0 2 8 4 19 -16 19
10 Motherwell 18 5 3 10 22 27 8 1 2 5 7 13 10 4 1 5 15 14 -5 18
11 Dundee United 18 4 4 10 22 33 10 4 1 5 15 18 8 0 3 5 7 15 -11 16
12 Ross County 19 4 3 12 14 32 10 2 2 6 9 19 9 2 1 6 5 13 -18 15

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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.