St. Johnstone believe to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been back-breaking up to now with 14 points and a 10th spot in the Premiership table. Opponents Aberdeen are in 6th place with 21 pts.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (9) in Premiership
- Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
This promises to be an engaging match with lots of spark and bustle as both teams are well renewed since they last played a game. Get ready!
St. Johnstone form and stats
St. Johnstone's struggle is real here at McDiarmid Park with only 6 points collected from 8 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-4.
In their previous game, the manager C. Davidson led his Johnstone to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Dundee. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at McDiarmid Park. Shaun Rooney, defender, was given a rating of 8.13/10 in that game, top of the team. Rooney hit one key pass and won 10 of 13 duels.
Ahead of that match, Johnstone lost 1-2 at home to Hibernian.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 St. Johnstone have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won four, drawn one and lost three.
The manager C. Davidson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Rangers in only four days.
Johnstone have scored 7 league goals here from 8 matches, not a lot. St. Johnstone have conceded 11 in these home matches.
Aberdeen form and stats
Aberdeen have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 1-2-5 (8 played). Aberdeen has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Impressive finishing from Marley Watkins (2) and Christian Ramirez (2) secured the home win 4-1 against St. Mirren in their previous game. Midfielder Marley Watkins was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.64. Watkins scored two goals, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 19 successful passes (of 21 total).
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Livingston.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 ten relevant matches. Results were five Aberdeen wins, two draws and three defeats.
Aberdeen are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). Aberdeen struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 14 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Aberdeen - Johnstone 0-1 was the scoreline in these teams' latest head-to-head match, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Johnstone victories, four draws and four Aberdeen wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, nine matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Ramírez 8 goals |  L. Ferguson 3 goals |  M. Watkins 3 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| St. Johnstone | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 22 |
| 15 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 14 | 22 |
| 80% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 47% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 82% |
| 27% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 62% | 47% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 18% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 33% | 62% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 59% |
| 33% | 12% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 53% | 38% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 24% |
| 4.7 | 5.5 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 3.8 | 5.1 |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 6.6 | 5.6 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9.2 | 9.6 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 10.8 | 12.9 |
| 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 25% | 33% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 21% | 24% |
| 13.8 | 13.4 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 12.4 | 9.1 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
- 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 scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.
- Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
- Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premiership
- Aberdeen have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
- Aberdeen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (9) 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 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 22 | 39 |
| 2 | Celtic | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 23 | 32 |
| 3 | Hearts | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 27 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 25 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 25 |
| 6 | Aberdeen | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 21 |
| 7 | Hibernian | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 19 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 20 | -11 | 17 |
| 9 | Dundee | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -15 | 16 |
| 10 | St. Johnstone | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 14 |
| 11 | Livingston | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -10 | 13 |
| 12 | Ross County | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 11 |
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