📏 Form Guide

Aberdeen

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Aberdeen will play in this game following a 0-0 Premiership stalemate against Livingston.

In that match, Aberdeen managed 55% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Livingston got 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

Over their last six fixtures, Peter Leven's Aberdeen have hit the back of the net a total of 7 times, an average number of goals per match equal to 1.17.

Ahead of this meeting, Aberdeen have not registered a win against Dundee in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Dundee

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Since a loss in their previous game against Motherwell in Premiership competition, Dundee and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Dundee had 47% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For Dundee, the goals were scored by Jordan McGhee (36') and Luke McCowan (70'). At the other end, Motherwell had 20 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Georgie Gent (79'), Theo Bair (81') and Ebiye Moses (93') scored for Motherwell.

The numbers tell their own story, and Dundee have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 15 goals overall. Defensively, Dundee can certainly do much better. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.

Coming into this contest, Dundee haven't beaten Aberdeen when they've played them away from home in the last 14 matches in the league. A truly shameful run of away results.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 16/10/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Aberdeen winning 2 of those games, Dundee 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

In all, 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 of them for The Dons and 7 coming from The Dark Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 19 on 13/03/2024 when it ended Dundee 1-0 Aberdeen.

On that day, Dundee had 54% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Luke McCowan (66').

Aberdeen had 9 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Steven McLean.

📰 Team News: Aberdeen

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Aberdeen boss Peter Leven to be concerned with due to a largely intact group. Slobodan Rubezic (Knee injury) will miss out.

We are thinking that The Dons should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system, handing starts to Kelle Roos, Nicky Devlin, Stefan Gartenmann, Richard Jensen, Jack Mackenzie, Connor Barron, Graeme Shinnie, Jamie McGrath, Leighton Clarkson, Junior Hoilett and Bojan Miovski.

📰 Team News: Dundee

Out of a mainly healthy group, there’s just a single fitness worry for the Dundee boss Tony Docherty to be concerned with. Owen Beck (Groin problems) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that The Dark Blues will likely utilise a 3-5-2 lineup with a starting lineup of Jon McCracken, J. Antonio Portales, Joe Shaughnessy, Aaron Donnelly, Jordan McGhee, Lyall Cameron, Mohamad Sylla, Luke McCowan, Dara Costelloe, Scott Tiffoney and Amadou Bakayoko.

💭 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Dundee must be fancied to breach the defence of this Aberdeen outfit, but it realistically won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Aberdeen when all is said and done. Definitely a tough call.

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Renata Leite, 13:01 13/04/2024