📏 Form Guide

Dundee United

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Dundee United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 3-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Rangers.

In that game, Dundee United had 22% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Dundee United was Samuel Harding (20'). Rangers got 19 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Cyriel Dessers (25', 73') and Nicolas Raskin (75') scored for Rangers.

Dundee United have been quite ineffective in attack of late. Their sum of goals stands at just 4 vs opposing sides during the course of their last six outings. In those meetings, Dundee United have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 11. We shall soon find out if that trend can be continued on here.

Their past results show that Dundee United:

• have not been beaten in the league by Aberdeen in their previous 2 games.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Aberdeen

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After tasting defeat last time out to Celtic in Premiership action, Aberdeen and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Aberdeen managed 31% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Aberdeen was Kevin Nisbet (42'). On the other side, Celtic had 25 shots at goal with 14 on target. Maik Nawrocki (31'), Hyun-jun Yang (45'), Luke McCowan (48'), Johnny Kenny (54') and Adam Idah (94') scored for Celtic.

The stats don’t lie, and Aberdeen have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals overall. At the back, Aberdeen certainly have room for improvement.

Heading into this contest, Aberdeen are without an away win for the past 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 08/10/2022 shows that Dundee United have won 2 of these and Aberdeen 3, with the number of drawn results being 1.

An aggregate of 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 from The Tangerines and 7 netted by The Dons. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league match between these sides was Premiership match day 29 on 02/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Aberdeen 2-2 Dundee United.

In that match, Aberdeen managed 73% possession and 20 shots on goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Kevin Nisbet (75', 91').

On the other side, Dundee United got 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Vicko Ševelj (20') and Sam Dalby (45') scored.

The referee was Don Robertson.

🗞️ Team News: Dundee United

We think that The Tangerines could opt for a 3-4-3 system this time, utilising Dave Richards, Vicko Sevelj, S. Cleall-Harding, Declan Gallagher, Ryan Strain, Ross Docherty, Allan Campbell, Will Ferry, Glenn Middleton, Sam Dalby and Kai Fotheringham.

ℹ️ Team News: Aberdeen

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin has to choose a team with limited availability. Jamie McGrath (Shoulder injury) and Vicente Besuijen (unknown injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We believe The Dons seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Dimitar Mitov, Alexander Jensen, Kristers Tobers, Mats Knoester, Graeme Shinnie, Ante Palaversa, Leighton Clarkson, Shayden Morris, Topi Keskinen, Pape Habib Gueye and Kevin Nisbet.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Aberdeen and Dundee United could well cancel each other out, with goals at a real premium.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level and two clean sheets. We’re therefore predicting a very even match with a 0-0 score at full-time.

Peter Guest, 11:05 17/05/2025