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The tension continues to build for the huge Scottish Cup semi-final contest between Aberdeen and Celtic on Saturday. With the big incentive for the winners of the match being a place in the final, it promises to be a really good game here.
Our predictions, user poll and statistics for Aberdeen v Celtic can be found here - as well as up-to-date odds.
📊 Form Guide
Aberdeen
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Aberdeen prepare for this fixture coming off the back of a 0-0 Premiership drawn result against Dundee.
In that match, Aberdeen had 55% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. At the other end, Dundee got 18 shots on goal with 3 on target.
Their more recent scorelines show that not much more can be done by the Aberdeen backline. Aberdeen have given the opposition little, seeing the tally of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their previous 6 games standing at 3.
Celtic
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Celtic will come into the game following a 3-0 Premiership win to beat St Mirren in their previous outing.
In that match, Celtic had 73% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 9 on target. For Celtic, the goalscorers were Reo Hatate (52'), Kyogo Furuhashi (60') and Adam Idah (86'). St Mirren got 2 attempts at goal with 0 on target.
In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Celtic, at least three goals have been hit. The average number of goals per match during that time is 4, with the average number of goals for Celtic working out to 2.67. That trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.
🤜🤛 Head to head
A quick look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 17/12/2022 shows that these encounters have not been happy ones for Aberdeen. They’ve not been able to come away with any victories at all while Celtic have been the better of the two, beating them in 83 per cent of those matches.
Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 overall at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.
The last league clash between these clubs was Premiership match day 24 on 03/02/2024 and the score finished Aberdeen 1-1 Celtic.
On that day, Aberdeen managed 29% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Bojan Miovski (50').
Celtic got 22 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Nicolas Kühn (63') scored.
The referee was Steven McLean.
📋 Team News: Aberdeen
The Aberdeen manager Peter Leven will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match thanks to a fully healthy group to pick from. Graeme Shinnie is ineligible for this match because of suspension.
📰 Team News: Celtic
Due to a mostly full-strength group, there is only the one fitness problem for the Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers to be concerned with. Adam Montgomery (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.
⚡ Prediction
We’ve got the feeling that Aberdeen will likely create enough chances to score a goal against this Celtic side, but one goal is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.
We can see both teams to score in a 1-2 victory for Celtic at the end of this one. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 11:05 20/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Aberdeen
Formed: 1903
Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium (20,866)
Captain: Graeme Shinnie
Chairman: Dave Cormack
Manager: Peter Leven
Competitions: Premiership position 9, League Cup (Final), Scottish Cup (Semi-Finals), Europa League Qualifiers (Play-Offs)
🔑 Star Player: Duk
Usually taking up the Striker position, Duk was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Having made a first senior appearance for Aberdeen in the 2022 - 2023 season, the gifted Forward has got 4 league goals in the Premiership 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 29 appearances.
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33 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 78 | LWWDW |
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33 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 49 | 75 | LWDLD |
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33 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 62 | WLDWW |
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33 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 51 | DWDWW |
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33 | 12 | 7 | 14 | -5 | 43 | WLDLL |
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33 | 10 | 11 | 12 | -10 | 41 | WWLDD |
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33 | 9 | 12 | 12 | -7 | 39 | DWLLD |
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33 | 8 | 13 | 12 | -5 | 37 | WLDWD |
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33 | 8 | 11 | 14 | -14 | 35 | LWWDD |
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33 | 7 | 10 | 16 | -22 | 31 | DLLWL |
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33 | 7 | 9 | 17 | -24 | 30 | DWLLW |
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33 | 3 | 9 | 21 | -37 | 18 | DLLDL |
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Bojan Miovski | 14 |
Jamie McGrath | 8 |
Duk | 4 |
Leighton Clarkson | 2 |
Nicky Devlin | 2 |
Matt O'Riley | 13 |
Kyogo Furuhashi | 11 |
Adam Idah | 7 |
David Turnbull | 7 |
Luis Palma | 6 |
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