Match preview Premiership: Dundee United - Aberdeen at Tannadice Park

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tannadice Park (14223 seats)

Dundee United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Aberdeen.

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a League Cup match only four days ago. This match was also played here at Tannadice Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Aberdeen have had more rest.

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Dundee United form and stats

Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Dundee United are 1-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).

Dundee's last game was hosting Kelty Hearts and winning 1-0. Preceding that match was a defeat to Peterhead (0-1).

Dundee aren't scoring a lot here at Tannadice Park in the league, with only 4 goals from 5 games. Dundee's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Aberdeen form and stats

Aberdeen, who have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Premiership, are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 9 points in the bag from 3 travels in the Premiership.

Impressive finishing from Marley Watkins and Lewis Ferguson secured the home win 2-1 against St. Mirren in their previous game. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ross County at their stadium, the result 3-0.

Late drama in the previous game, when Lewis Ferguson scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time to defeat St. Mirren.

After this away game Aberdeen return home for a Premiership game against Hamilton Academical. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Aberdeen's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away. Aberdeen are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 0 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dundee three wins, zero draws and Aberdeen seven victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenL. Ferguson
L. Ferguson
5 goals
Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
3 goals
AberdeenM. Watkins
M. Watkins
2 goals

Dundee United missing players

Aberdeen missing players

Dundee United Aberdeen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 3 8
3 1 0 Won W 1 3 6
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
5 3 2 Lost L 0 0 2
8 4 0 Scored S 3 5 10
16 6 2 Conceded C 0 0 6
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 33% 50%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 50%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 25%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 100% 50%
40% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.8 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.3 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
108 49 18 Total Shots T S 20 41 86
22 11 2 Shots on Target S O 8 19 33
36% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 26% 30%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen has the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Aberdeen have won all their away games so far.
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Dundee United has the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in Premiership
  • Dundee United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Dundee United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 10 8 2 0 24 3 5 5 0 0 14 0 5 3 2 0 10 3 21 26
2 Celtic 9 8 1 0 25 5 4 4 0 0 14 3 5 4 1 0 11 2 20 25
3 Hibernian 10 6 2 2 16 10 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 4 0 1 9 4 6 20
4 Aberdeen 8 6 0 2 10 6 5 3 0 2 5 6 3 3 0 0 5 0 4 18
5 Kilmarnock 9 3 2 4 12 11 4 2 1 1 8 4 5 1 1 3 4 7 1 11
6 Livingston 10 3 2 5 12 15 5 2 1 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 7 9 -3 11
7 Dundee United 10 3 2 5 8 16 5 1 1 3 4 6 5 2 1 2 4 10 -8 11
8 Ross County 10 3 2 5 7 16 5 1 1 3 4 12 5 2 1 2 3 4 -9 11
9 Motherwell 9 2 2 5 7 13 5 1 1 3 4 9 4 1 1 2 3 4 -6 8
10 Hamilton Academical 9 2 1 6 8 16 4 0 1 3 1 5 5 2 0 3 7 11 -8 7
11 St. Mirren 10 2 1 7 6 15 5 1 1 3 3 7 5 1 0 4 3 8 -9 7
12 St. Johnstone 10 2 1 7 4 13 5 1 0 4 1 5 5 1 1 3 3 8 -9 7

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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.