Motherwell will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 13 points behind Aberdeen.
- Motherwell has the fewest points from losing position (0) 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 Motherwell and Aberdeen.
Motherwell form and stats
With 2 Premiership wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats from their home games, Motherwell are certainly not brimming with confidence. Motherwell has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager S. Robinson and the players. Three consecutive losses here at Fir Park is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
Motherwell are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus Rangers. Before that game, the home loss against St. Mirren with the scoreline 0-1.
There will be little rest for Motherwell after this match as they are travelling to Dundee United for a Premiership game in only three days.
Motherwell are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 9 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Motherwell have conceded 17 from these games.
Aberdeen form and stats
The visitors are W4-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Aberdeen goalkeeper Joe Lewis is eager to challenge this, with his 226 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Aberdeen play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Kilmarnock (placed 9th). A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Ross County.
A quick return to home after this game, as Aberdeen are hosting St. Johnstone in the Premiership only three days away.
Aberdeen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 9 goals have been scored. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Aberdeen - Motherwell 0-3, played this season. Motherwell-Aberdeen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Motherwell five wins, Aberdeen five wins, zero draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  L. Ferguson 8 goals |  R. Hedges 4 goals |   M. O'Hara 3 goals |
Motherwell missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Motherwell | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 22 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 25 |
| 25 | 17 | 12 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 88% | 94% |
| 67% | 56% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 62% | 71% |
| 56% | 56% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 41% |
| 28% | 44% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 11% | 22% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 28% | 33% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 25% | 35% |
| 39% | 22% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 62% | 47% |
| 39% | 44% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 24% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 2 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.2 | 12.9 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11.2 | 10.4 |
| 2.8 | 3.4 | 1.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 36% | 29% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 26% | 38% |
- Motherwell has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
- Motherwell 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 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 45 | 50 |
| 2 | Celtic | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 37 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 34 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 34 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 33 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 8 | -3 | 21 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 21 |
| 7 | Livingston | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -7 | 18 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -12 | 18 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | -6 | 17 |
| 10 | St. Johnstone | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -8 | 17 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 21 | 40 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 25 | -19 | 17 |
| 12 | Ross County | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -24 | 13 |
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