Aberdeen vs St. Johnstone

Aberdeen will be seeking some level of consistency when they take on basement boys St. Johnstone in a must-win Premiership showdown at the Pittodrie Stadium.

Aberdeen have delivered a mixed bag of performances in their last five Premiership matches (W2, D1, L2), scoring a paltry average of 0.8 goals per game in that run of fixtures. However, Aberdeen’s performances have mainly depended on where they play. While they’ve only won one of their last ten league games on the road (D2, L7), the ‘Dons’ have gone unbeaten in four home league outings (W3, D1) since 2-0 defeat at the hands of Motherwell in early November. Speaking of the epitome of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ as many as 71.43% of Aberdeen’s total Premiership points this season have arrived on home turf. But following a narrow 1-0 defeat in their most recent Premiership H2H at home, the hosts face the prospect of losing back-to-back home league meetings with St. Johnstone for the first time since October 2015.

As for St. Johnstone, a run of four successive away league defeats by an aggregate score of 7-0 suggests the visitors are unlikely to replicate the aforementioned ‘2015 feat.’ Adding to this sentiment, the ‘Saints’ are winless in their last ten league matches (D2, L8) while they could suffer five consecutive away losses in Scotland’s top-flight for the first time since August 2012. Much of St. Johnstone’s hopes of avoiding that scenario will hinge on their ability to keep things tight, as they’ve bagged a league-low two away goals in their ten Premiership travels this term. On that basis, it comes as no surprise that Callum Davidson’s men have lost all 11 league matches when conceding first this season, including six on the road.