Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Darvel & Aberdeen face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Scottish Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Darvel and Aberdeen should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Darvel form and stats
Last season, Darvel's Scottish Cup journey ended in the 4th round.A strong away win for Darvel against Kilwinning Rangers the last match. A goal frenzy last time out for Darvel, with a total of 9 goals in the match against Kilwinning Rangers. Fun stuff to watch!
Previous to that game, a Regional Leagues home match hosting Petershill in a game that was won 5-1.Aberdeen form and stats
Last season their Scottish Cup adventure ended in the 5th round.Aberdeen lost away at Hearts (0-5) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Hearts was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind. Kennedy was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 6.75. The defender Kennedy hit three key passes and won 2 of 3 duels.
A defeat, in the League Cup away at Rangers (after extra-time), earlier. Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Aberdeen given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 4 matches with 4 wins as expected, 0 draws and 0 surprise home wins. The favourites won 3 of these games by at least two goals.
It's a day of discovery for Aberdeen as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Aberdeen have played one with the results W1-D0-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Aberdeen has scored {7 goals} and conceded 1 time.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  B. Miovski 11 goals |  L. Lopes 9 goals |  L. Clarkson 4 goals |
Darvel missing players
Aberdeen missing players
| Darvel | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 9 | 12 | ||
| 81 | 43 | Scored | S | 14 | 44 | ||
| 36 | 14 | Conceded | C | 30 | 41 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 68% | ||
| 60% | 73% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 40% | ||
| 72% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 6.6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.4 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.7 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 12.9 | ||
| 5.2 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 58% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 42% | ||
| 9.6 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 13.8 | ||
| 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.1 | ||
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