Livingston will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Aberdeen.
- Livingston has the most matches over the total-line (12) 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.
Livingston form and stats
Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Livingston are 4-1-5 (wins-draw-losses). The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Livingston has won six games in a row. The St. Mirren match was the last time out without a victory. Livingston has recorded two wins in a row here at Tony Macaroni Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The Livingston supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Ross County in Premiership and win 3-1. A strong away win before that one, visiting Hibernian and winning 3-0.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Livingston have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won six, drawn two and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Livingston as they are travelling to their away game against Celtic in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
Livingston has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Livingston have conceded 13 in these home matches.
Aberdeen form and stats
As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Aberdeen have produced an overall stat of 4-4-1 so far.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Rangers with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Dundee United.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Aberdeen playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were three Aberdeen wins, three draws and one defeat.
The schedule is very tough for Aberdeen now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Premiership game at Ross County is waiting in only three days.
Aberdeen find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Aberdeen - Livingston 2-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Livingston zero wins, three draws and Aberdeen seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Ferguson 8 goals |   J. Guthrie 5 goals |  S. Robinson 4 goals |
Livingston missing players
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| Livingston | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 28 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 28 |
| 27 | 13 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 20 |
| 95% | 90% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 78% | 86% |
| 81% | 70% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 56% | 67% |
| 52% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 43% |
| 24% | 30% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 14% |
| 10% | 10% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 52% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 22% | 38% |
| 29% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 67% | 48% |
| 24% | 30% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 29% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9.9 | 10.1 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.3 | 10.4 | 10.1 |
| 3.3 | 2.9 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 |
| 40% | 38% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 26% | 39% |
- Livingston has the fewest matches under the total-line (9) in Premiership
- Livingston has the most matches over the total-line (12) 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 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 5 | 53 | 65 |
| 2 | Celtic | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 30 | 43 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 39 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 36 |
| 5 | Livingston | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 30 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | -10 | 26 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 24 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 23 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -12 | 19 |
| 10 | Motherwell | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -14 | 18 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 21 | 47 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -26 | 18 |
| 12 | Ross County | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 42 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 20 | -28 | 17 |
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