It's looking great for Aberdeen so far this season, with their 4th place in the Premiership table and looking forward to facing St. Johnstone (who are in 7th).
- Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
Both sides have had adequate rest since their previous competitive action. Let's have faith in that this will be an enthusiastic game!
Aberdeen form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for Aberdeen at their home stadium (Pittodrie Stadium) is 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The home regulars saw a 0-0 draw versus Ross County last time out and are looking for a win here. Defender Scales got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.61/10. Scales won 11 of 16 duels.
A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Kilmarnock.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 8 games, won 5 matches, drawn 0 and lost 3.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (24 in 10 games), Aberdeen's attacking play is working. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.
St. Johnstone form and stats
Playing away, St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, have won 4 games, drawn 1 and suffered 5 defeats in the Premiership this season. Three has not been a lucky number for St. Johnstone as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Ross County match.
Johnstone failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Dundee United (placed 11th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Mitchell was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.35. The defender Mitchell won 9 of 14 duels.
A loss against Hearts was the result prior to that, in a home game.Betting fact: Both sides have scored goal(s) in 10 of this club's latest 13 league matches.
St. Johnstone have scored 14 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
St. Johnstone - Aberdeen 0-1 was the end result in these squads' latest head-to-head fixture, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Aberdeen victories, four draws and two St. Johnstone wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, nine matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Miovski 11 goals |  L. Lopes 7 goals |  L. Clarkson 4 goals |
Aberdeen missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Aberdeen | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 33 | 24 | 13 | Scored | S | 3 | 14 | 24 |
| 32 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 11 | 20 | 30 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 80% | 70% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 70% |
| 65% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 90% | 65% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 25% |
| 35% | 60% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 20% | 15% |
| 60% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 80% | 60% |
| 25% | 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 20% | 30% |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| 5.5 | 4.5 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.4 | 6.5 |
| 1.9 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.2 | 12.4 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.7 | 9.2 | 9.2 |
| 3.9 | 4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 2.8 |
| 43% | 60% | 87% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 41% | 43% |
| 14.6 | 12.3 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 24.7 | 15.1 | 13.6 |
| 4.2 | 3 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8.3 | 4.7 | 4 |
- Aberdeen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Aberdeen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
- Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
- St. Johnstone haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 63 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 10 | 46 | 55 |
| 2 | Rangers | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 46 |
| 3 | Hearts | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 31 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 33 | 32 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 1 | 26 |
| 5 | St. Mirren | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -4 | 26 |
| 6 | Livingston | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -10 | 25 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -6 | 24 |
| 8 | Hibernian | 20 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 24 | 33 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 21 | -9 | 23 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 33 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 19 | -16 | 20 |
| 10 | Motherwell | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -5 | 19 |
| 11 | Dundee United | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -10 | 19 |
| 12 | Ross County | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -18 | 16 |
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