Pittodrie Stadium: Aberdeen vs St. Mirren Premiership preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 04.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Premiership: The mid-table spots tell a story of the journey Aberdeen and St. Mirren have undertaken so far. Both contenders are set to play; bring it on!

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the most conceded goals (16) away in Premiership

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Aberdeen and St. Mirren.

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Aberdeen form and stats

All-inclusive Premiership statistics at home this season for Aberdeen are 4-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Aberdeen's previous game was a Premiership match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Livingston (placed 11th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Defender David Bates got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.3/10. Bates scored one goal and won 7 of 10 duels.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Celtic (1-2).

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

The Aberdeen fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 8 matches. Aberdeen have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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St. Mirren form and stats

The visitors, who have the most conceded goals (16) away in Premiership, are W2-D4-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.

Mirren have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 202 minutes ago. J. McGrath was the goal scorer.

There were no winners in St. Mirren's previous match, a Premiership home game that ended 0-0 vs Ross County (placed 12th). Jak Alnwick had red hot gloves after the game against Ross County, shaping the outcome of the game with seven saves made. Jak Alnwick was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.45. The agile goalkeeper Alnwick stopped the opponent with seven saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Hearts's place.

Mirren 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, five draws and seven defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

Mirren have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 10 goals have been scored. The Mirren manager J. Goodwin has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

This was the final score when the squads played each other previously this season; St. Mirren - Aberdeen 3-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Aberdeen victories, four draws and three St. Mirren wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenC. Ramírez
C. Ramírez
6 goals
St. MirrenE. Brophy
E. Brophy
5 goals
AberdeenL. Ferguson
L. Ferguson
3 goals

Aberdeen missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Aberdeen St. Mirren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 2 8 16
5 4 1 Won W 0 2 3
3 1 0 Drew D 2 4 8
8 3 1 Lost L 0 2 5
18 9 1 Scored S 4 10 16
21 7 2 Conceded C 4 16 24
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 75%
81% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 62%
44% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 50%
12% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 62% 38%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 19%
56% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 50%
19% 38% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 31%
25% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 44%
 
5.1 6.4 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5 5.8
5.4 4.2 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 6.8 5.1
2.2 1.6 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.9 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
12.3 13.9 12 Shots (avg) S ( 17.5 13.6 13.6
5.2 5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.5 5.1 4.6
22% 22% 8% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 24% 22%
 
8.9 5.5 3.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 15.2 13.7
2.2 1.2 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 5.4 5.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Mirren have the most conceded goals (16) away 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 Rangers 15 11 3 1 33 14 7 4 3 0 14 7 8 7 0 1 19 7 19 36
2 Celtic 14 9 2 3 32 10 7 5 2 0 20 2 7 4 0 3 12 8 22 29
3 Hearts 15 7 6 2 25 14 8 5 3 0 16 5 7 2 3 2 9 9 11 27
4 Dundee United 16 7 4 5 15 15 7 5 0 2 6 4 9 2 4 3 9 11 0 25
5 Motherwell 16 7 3 6 20 24 9 5 1 3 13 14 7 2 2 3 7 10 -4 24
6 Hibernian 14 5 3 6 17 18 7 3 1 3 9 9 7 2 2 3 8 9 -1 18
7 Aberdeen 16 5 3 8 18 21 8 4 1 3 9 7 8 1 2 5 9 14 -3 18
8 St. Mirren 16 3 8 5 16 24 8 1 4 3 6 8 8 2 4 2 10 16 -8 17
9 Dundee 15 4 4 7 15 27 9 3 3 3 12 15 6 1 1 4 3 12 -12 16
10 St. Johnstone 15 3 5 7 9 15 8 1 3 4 7 11 7 2 2 3 2 4 -6 14
11 Livingston 15 3 4 8 12 22 6 1 1 4 5 9 9 2 3 4 7 13 -10 13
12 Ross County 15 2 5 8 19 27 7 1 3 3 10 13 8 1 2 5 9 14 -8 11

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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.