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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 24.December
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: The Smisa Stadium

Look!Here is all you need to know about the Premiership game St. Mirren - Aberdeen!

Insights:
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Premiership

Aberdeen could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premiership game only four sleeps ago.

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St. Mirren form and stats

St. Mirren have performed here at The Smisa Stadium this season with 5 wins from 9 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 1. St. Mirren have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Rangers last time out and are looking for a win here. The attacker Main was announced as "man of the match" for St. Mirren with the rating of 7.33/10. Main hit two key passes.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus St. Johnstone.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mirren as they are travelling to their away game against Livingston in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.

St. Mirren has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. St. Mirren have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Aberdeen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Aberdeen so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-5 (win-draw-lose). Aberdeen has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

The manager Goodwin was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Pittodrie Stadium. Aberdeen suffered a 2-3 loss to Rangers (placed 2nd). Late heartbreak for Aberdeen in the Rangers match, as the deciding 2-3 goal came deep into overtime. The attacker Duk got a match rating of 7.43 in that game. Duk scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A loss against Celtic was the result prior to that, in a home game.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Premiership trip to Kilmarnock.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Aberdeen have conceded 17 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Aberdeen - St. Mirren 4-1 was the product when these two squads last met, also in this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Mirren victories, three draws and four Aberdeen wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AberdeenB. Miovski
B. Miovski
11 goals
AberdeenL. Lopes
L. Lopes
7 goals
AberdeenL. Clarkson
L. Clarkson
4 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Aberdeen missing players

St. Mirren Aberdeen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 9 2 Played P 3 8 17
6 5 1 Won W 1 2 8
3 3 1 Drew D 0 1 1
6 1 0 Lost L 2 5 8
17 11 3 Scored S 3 7 31
23 6 1 Conceded C 5 17 27
93% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 56% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 88% 82%
60% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 65%
27% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 38% 53%
13% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 41%
40% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 62% 59%
33% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 12% 24%
33% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 18%
 
6 6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.5 4.3
5.7 5.9 6 Corners against (avg) C A 7.3 7 5.9
2.7 2.4 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
10.3 11.1 7 Shots (avg) S ( 16.3 12 11.6
3.1 2.9 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 3.8 3.8
37% 42% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 19% 23% 48%
 
11.3 11 15.5 Shots against (avg) S A 13 16.8 14.8
3.2 2.3 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 5.9 4.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Aberdeen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen 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 Celtic 16 15 0 1 51 13 7 7 0 0 22 5 9 8 0 1 29 8 38 45
2 Rangers 17 12 3 2 40 18 9 8 1 0 25 5 8 4 2 2 15 13 22 39
3 Aberdeen 17 8 1 8 31 27 9 6 0 3 24 10 8 2 1 5 7 17 4 25
4 Hearts 16 7 3 6 27 26 8 5 1 2 19 16 8 2 2 4 8 10 1 24
5 St. Johnstone 17 7 3 7 21 22 8 3 2 3 8 6 9 4 1 4 13 16 -1 24
6 Livingston 15 7 2 6 15 20 8 5 0 3 8 8 7 2 2 3 7 12 -5 23
7 St. Mirren 15 6 3 6 17 23 9 5 3 1 11 6 6 1 0 5 6 17 -6 21
8 Hibernian 17 6 2 9 20 26 8 4 2 2 12 8 9 2 0 7 8 18 -6 20
9 Motherwell 16 5 2 9 20 22 7 1 1 5 5 11 9 4 1 4 15 11 -2 17
10 Ross County 17 4 3 10 14 28 9 2 2 5 9 18 8 2 1 5 5 10 -14 15
11 Kilmarnock 17 4 3 10 13 30 8 4 2 2 11 13 9 0 1 8 2 17 -17 15
12 Dundee United 16 3 3 10 17 31 8 3 0 5 10 16 8 0 3 5 7 15 -14 12

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The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.