📊 Form Guide

St Mirren

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St Mirren, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 Premiership success over Hibernian.

In that match, St Mirren managed 31% possession and 15 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for St Mirren was Conor McMenamin (16', 31'). At the other end, Hibernian had 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Nicky Cadden (94') was the scorer for Hibernian.

It has been seldom in recent games that St Mirren have kept a clean sheet. In fact, St Mirren have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 9 goals in the process.

Heading into this fixture, St Mirren haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Aberdeen

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Aberdeen come into this clash following on from a 4-1 Premiership win with the defeat of Dundee in their last game.

In that match, Aberdeen had 56% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Aberdeen, goals were scored by Ante Palaversa (53'), Topi Keskinen (57'), Vicente Besuijen (72') and Kevin Nisbet (97'). At the other end, Dundee had 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Simon Murray (70') scored for Dundee.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring Aberdeen, at least three goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per match during that spell is 4, with the number of goals averaged by Aberdeen working out to 2. That being said, time will tell if the trend will be replicated in this match or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Aberdeen:

• have left without a victory over St Mirren in games played away from home for the previous 8 league games. Not an away record to be proud of.
• have not been beaten in their last 8 league matches away from home. Travelling very well.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 01/02/2023 shows that St Mirren have won 3 of these & Aberdeen 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

21 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 11 for The Buddies and 10 netted by The Dons. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

The previous league match featuring the two was Premiership match day 2 on 11/08/2024 when it finished Aberdeen 3-1 St Mirren.

That time, Aberdeen had 49% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Pape Habib Guèye (39'), Jamie McGrath (54') and Vicente Besuijen (81').

St Mirren got 10 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Toyosi Olusanya (45') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Grant Irvine.

📰 Team News: St Mirren

We are thinking that The Buddies will possibly employ a 3-4-3 formation this time featuring Ellery Balcombe, Marcus Fraser, Alexandros Gogic, Richard Taylor, Elvis Bwomono, Killian Phillips, Mark O'Hara, Scott Tanser, Conor McMenamin, Toyosi Olusanya and Greg Kiltie.

ℹ️ Team News: Aberdeen

Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin has some current player fitness concerns. Jamie McGrath (Facial injury) and Dante Polvara (Muscle tear) will not be playing here.

From our viewpoint, The Dons seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, giving starts to Dimitar Mitov, Nicky Devlin, Slobodan Rubezic, Gavin Molloy, Jack Mackenzie, Ante Palaversa, Graeme Shinnie, Topi Keskinen, Leighton Clarkson, Luis Lopes Duk and Ester Sokler.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that St Mirren will need to push hard to score goals against this Aberdeen team who we reckon should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good battle with a 0-1 advantage for Aberdeen at the end of this game.

It should be a good one.

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Renata Leite, 14:08 23/11/2024