Ross County will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 1 point behind Aberdeen.
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.
Ross County form and stats
1-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Ross County, who have the most conceded goals (9) at home in Premiership, so far this season. The Ross County manager S. Kettlewell might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Happy days for Ross County in their previous game, a Premiership match away at St. Johnstone (placed 9th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Preceding that match was the home game against Celtic that was lost 0-5.
County has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for County with 9 goals conceded in these matches.
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 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Premiership.
Aberdeen failed to get anything from their last game, a Premiership home match vs Motherwell (placed 8th) that ended with defeat 0-3. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Viking at their stadium, the result 2-0.
Aberdeen did not look prepared in the first half against Motherwell and lost the game during the first 45 minutes. They need to evaluate their pre-match routine before this one.
2 goals so far away for Aberdeen, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): County two wins, zero draws and Aberdeen eight victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Stewart 2 goals |   L. Ferguson 2 goals |  C. Donaldson 1 goals |
Ross County missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Ross County | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 9 | 5 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 38% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 25% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 12% | 25% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 25% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 73 | 38 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 21 | 50 |
| 19 | 13 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 11 | 18 |
| 37% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 18% | 28% |
- 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.
- Ross County has the most conceded goals (9) at home in Premiership
- Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in Premiership
- Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ross County 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 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 20 |
| 2 | Celtic | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 19 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Ross County | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -4 | 11 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 8 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 7 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 7 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 12 | Livingston | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 5 |
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