Delightful dogfight as daring Aberdeen duels with determined St. Mirren

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 13.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium (20866 seats)

Aberdeen have performed better than St. Mirren so far this season, but every game starts at 0-0. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming game:

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premiership game only three days ago.

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Aberdeen form and stats

8 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Aberdeen have to build on here at Pittodrie Stadium in the Premiership.

Aberdeen haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 373 minutes ago. A. Considine scored that one.

Aberdeen lost their last game at Hibernian (placed 3rd) after a 0-2 scoreline. Preceding that match was a defeat to Livingston (0-2).

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 seven times, drawn two and lost two.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Aberdeen as they are travelling to their away game against Celtic in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.

Aberdeen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Pittodrie Stadium with 21 goals in 14 league matches. Aberdeen's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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St. Mirren form and stats

The visitors are W6-D1-L6 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. Mirren has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Home advantage was not enough for St. Mirren in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Celtic, 0-4. A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Kilmarnock.

Mirren lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.

Mirren are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, five draws and eight defeats. From a total of 16 matches.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Hamilton Academical in just four days.

The visiting Mirren have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 15 goals from 13 games. Mirren have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: St. Mirren - Aberdeen 1-1. Aberdeen-St. Mirren H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Aberdeen five wins, St. Mirren two wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenL. Ferguson
L. Ferguson
8 goals
St. MirrenJ. McGrath
J. McGrath
5 goals
St. MirrenJ. Obika
J. Obika
5 goals

Aberdeen missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Aberdeen St. Mirren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 14 4 Played P 3 13 26
12 8 2 Won W 1 6 9
8 2 1 Drew D 0 1 5
7 4 1 Lost L 2 6 12
31 21 4 Scored S 2 15 26
28 16 4 Conceded C 5 13 32
81% 93% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
67% 79% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 54% 65%
37% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 38% 38%
15% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 8% 12%
11% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 8%
33% 43% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 42%
48% 36% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 27%
37% 29% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 31% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.6 1.8
3 2 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
10.5 10.8 9.8 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 10.4 10.8
3.3 3.3 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.6 3.4
35% 46% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 32% 29%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren 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 28 24 4 0 68 8 13 13 0 0 39 1 15 11 4 0 29 7 60 76
2 Celtic 27 17 7 3 61 21 14 9 3 2 28 10 13 8 4 1 33 11 40 58
3 Hibernian 28 14 7 7 39 26 14 5 5 4 17 17 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 49
4 Aberdeen 27 12 8 7 31 28 14 8 2 4 21 16 13 4 6 3 10 12 3 44
5 Livingston 27 11 6 10 35 31 14 5 3 6 16 17 13 6 3 4 19 14 4 39
6 St. Mirren 26 9 5 12 26 32 13 3 4 6 11 19 13 6 1 6 15 13 -6 32
7 Dundee United 28 7 10 11 23 38 14 4 4 6 15 20 14 3 6 5 8 18 -15 31
8 St. Johnstone 28 7 9 12 27 37 13 3 4 6 5 11 15 4 5 6 22 26 -10 30
9 Motherwell 27 7 7 13 25 39 13 3 3 7 12 21 14 4 4 6 13 18 -14 28
10 Kilmarnock 28 7 3 18 26 40 14 4 2 8 17 20 14 3 1 10 9 20 -14 24
11 Ross County 28 6 5 17 21 53 14 2 4 8 11 27 14 4 1 9 10 26 -32 23
12 Hamilton Academical 26 5 5 16 23 52 14 2 4 8 11 23 12 3 1 8 12 29 -29 20

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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.