Dundee United have performed really well so far this season, sitting at 4th spot in the table. Aberdeen have a view both up and down the table from their 7th position.
- Dundee United have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Dundee United form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 Premiership games here at Tannadice Park for Dundee United. The data says 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
The fans are hoping that Dundee will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-5 away loss in the Premiership game against Hearts (placed 3rd). As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Benjamin Siegrist had a busy but productive day in the Hearts match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfield player Declan Glass got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, the max score being 10. Glass served one assist and hit four key passes.
Preceding that match was a defeat to St. Johnstone (0-1).Dundee United have scored 5 league goals here from 6 matches, not a lot. Dundee United are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tannadice Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Aberdeen form and stats
There's been little loot from Aberdeen's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Premiership. Aberdeen only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Motherwell with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Lewis Ferguson got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, top player of the team. Ferguson hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Hearts.Aberdeen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 8 goals have been scored. Aberdeen struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Aberdeen - Dundee 2-0 was the story when these two sides previously played each other, also in this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Dundee United victories, two draws and five Aberdeen wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Ramírez 6 goals |   R. Edwards 3 goals |  P. Pawlett 2 goals |
Dundee United missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Dundee United | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 18 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 54% | 33% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 23% | 17% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 46% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 15% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 31% | 17% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 62% |
| 46% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 5 | 5.7 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 6 | 5.5 | 11 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.5 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 11.8 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 11.7 | 12.7 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 6.2 | 5.5 |
| 22% | 17% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 22% | 21% |
| 13.3 | 11.8 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.7 | 8.5 |
| 2.8 | 2.8 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3 | 2.2 |
- Aberdeen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
- Aberdeen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Aberdeen's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dundee United have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Dundee United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 16 | 30 |
| 2 | Celtic | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 26 |
| 3 | Hearts | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 18 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 15 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 15 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 14 |
| 10 | Livingston | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 12 |
| 11 | Dundee | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -16 | 10 |
| 12 | Ross County | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -9 | 6 |
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