Delightful dogfight as daring Aberdeen duels with determined St. Johnstone

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Aberdeen leading St. Johnstone by 18 points. Match preview to follow:

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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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 1 game and lost 2. Aberdeen has recorded two wins in a row here at Pittodrie Stadium, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Aberdeen, as their goalkeeper Joe Lewis has completely shut out the opponents for 316 minutes in the Premiership.

An away draw last time out for Aberdeen, facing Motherwell in a game that ended 0-0. Before that match, a win away at Kilmarnock.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Aberdeen have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost three.

Aberdeen are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Livingston awaits in four days.

A decent goal production from Aberdeen in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 9 league matches. On the other hand, Aberdeen have conceded 11 goals.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

There's been little loot from St. Johnstone's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 9 away games in the Premiership. St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws. It's a growing despair in St. Johnstone as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Johnstone's previous game was their home loss versus Rangers (0-3). Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting St. Mirren's place.

St. Johnstone are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, zero draws and three defeats. From a total of five matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Johnstone are hosting Hamilton Academical in the Premiership only four days away.

Johnstone have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 13 goals have been scored. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as St. Johnstone have conceded 17 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the St. Johnstone - Aberdeen 0-1 earlier 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; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenL. Ferguson
L. Ferguson
8 goals
St. JohnstoneS. May
S. May
5 goals
AberdeenR. Hedges
R. Hedges
4 goals

Aberdeen missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Aberdeen St. Johnstone
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 3 9 19
10 6 3 Won W 0 2 4
5 1 0 Drew D 2 3 5
3 2 0 Lost L 1 4 10
25 16 7 Scored S 3 13 17
17 11 2 Conceded C 6 17 28
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
67% 78% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 63%
39% 56% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 37%
17% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 16%
11% 22% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 11%
33% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 42%
50% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 16%
28% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 47%
 
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 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.7 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
10.1 9.7 11.7 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 10.2 10.3
3.7 3.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.4 2.7
38% 52% 58% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 33%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • 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 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 Rangers 19 17 2 0 53 5 9 9 0 0 31 1 10 8 2 0 22 4 48 53
2 Celtic 16 11 4 1 39 14 8 6 1 1 19 6 8 5 3 0 20 8 25 37
3 Hibernian 19 10 6 3 30 17 9 3 5 1 13 11 10 7 1 2 17 6 13 36
4 Aberdeen 18 10 5 3 25 17 9 6 1 2 16 11 9 4 4 1 9 6 8 35
5 Dundee United 19 6 6 7 16 23 10 4 2 4 11 10 9 2 4 3 5 13 -7 24
6 Motherwell 19 6 4 9 22 25 10 2 2 6 9 17 9 4 2 3 13 8 -3 22
7 Livingston 18 6 3 9 20 25 9 3 1 5 8 12 9 3 2 4 12 13 -5 21
8 St. Mirren 18 5 3 10 12 25 10 2 3 5 7 16 8 3 0 5 5 9 -13 18
9 Kilmarnock 19 5 2 12 18 26 9 3 1 5 11 12 10 2 1 7 7 14 -8 17
10 St. Johnstone 19 4 5 10 17 28 10 2 2 6 4 11 9 2 3 4 13 17 -11 17
11 Hamilton Academical 19 5 2 12 21 42 9 1 2 6 6 17 10 4 0 6 15 25 -21 17
12 Ross County 19 3 4 12 10 36 9 1 3 5 5 19 10 2 1 7 5 17 -26 13

Aberdeen:
Table
  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 19 17 2 0 53 5 9 9 0 0 31 1 10 8 2 0 22 4 48 53
2 Celtic 16 11 4 1 39 14 8 6 1 1 19 6 8 5 3 0 20 8 25 37
3 Hibernian 19 10 6 3 30 17 9 3 5 1 13 11 10 7 1 2 17 6 13 36
4 Aberdeen 18 10 5 3 25 17 9 6 1 2 16 11 9 4 4 1 9 6 8 35
5 Dundee United 19 6 6 7 16 23 10 4 2 4 11 10 9 2 4 3 5 13 -7 24
6 Motherwell 19 6 4 9 22 25 10 2 2 6 9 17 9 4 2 3 13 8 -3 22
7 Livingston 18 6 3 9 20 25 9 3 1 5 8 12 9 3 2 4 12 13 -5 21
8 St. Mirren 18 5 3 10 12 25 10 2 3 5 7 16 8 3 0 5 5 9 -13 18
9 Kilmarnock 19 5 2 12 18 26 9 3 1 5 11 12 10 2 1 7 7 14 -8 17
10 St. Johnstone 19 4 5 10 17 28 10 2 2 6 4 11 9 2 3 4 13 17 -11 17
11 Hamilton Academical 19 5 2 12 21 42 9 1 2 6 6 17 10 4 0 6 15 25 -21 17
12 Ross County 19 3 4 12 10 36 9 1 3 5 5 19 10 2 1 7 5 17 -26 13

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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.