Aberdeen vs St Johnstone - prediction, team news, lineups

Aberdeen volition invited St Johnstone to Pittodrie Stadium connected Sunday for a matchday 8 clash successful the Scottish Premiership.

The hosts are seventh successful the standings with 8 points from 7 games, lone down their sixth-placed visitors connected extremity difference.

Match preview

Aberdeen started the 2026-27 play with a fantastic Scottish League Cup radical signifier campaign, winning each 4 matches portion scoring 11 and conceding lone twice.

The Dons managed to transportation that momentum into their opening Scottish Premiership fixture, dramatically beating Hearts 2-1 acknowledgment to 2 goals successful stoppage time. 

However, the archetypal decision of the run came against Dundee connected matchday two, suffering a 2-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Dens Park, and that has sparked an inconsistent tally ever since. 

Stephen Robinson's broadside person since won two, drawn 3 - winning 1 connected penalties - and mislaid 2 of their adjacent 7 matches crossed each competitions, including booking their spot successful the League Cup semi-finals successful the process.

Alongside securing their spot successful the semi-final with the punishment triumph against Kilmarnock, the Dons managed to spell into the planetary interruption disconnected the backmost of 1 triumph and 2 draws successful the league, seeing Aberdeen ascent to seventh. 

Eager to proceed gathering connected those results and looking to ascent into the apical six, Aberdeen volition beryllium eyeing each 3 points erstwhile thy instrumentality connected St Johnstone. 

The Dons volition gully assurance from St Johnstone's miserable distant signifier this term, having mislaid 2 and drawn 1 of their 3 league fixtures connected the road.

However, the Saints person different enjoyed a beardown commencement to their archetypal play backmost successful the Scottish Premiership aft securing promotion from the Championship past term.

Simo Valakari's broadside person won two, drawn 2 and mislaid 3 of their archetypal 7 league matches, scoring 9 and conceding 10 goals successful the process.

The Saints, arsenic a result, beryllium sixth successful the table, and with the semipermanent ambition of avoiding relegation, Valakari volition beryllium anxious to prime up much points and widen their existent 3 constituent pb implicit 12th-placed Kilmarnock.

St Johnstone volition not lone person to flooded their winless distant grounds this term, but besides decision Aberdeen for the archetypal clip since a 2-0 triumph successful February 2024 if they are to assertion the 3 points.

Aberdeen Scottish Premiership form:

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Team News

Aberdeen are without Bradley Lyons, Emmanuel Gyamfi and Kristers Tobers owed to wounded issues, portion the remainder of the squad is disposable for selection. 

Kevin Nisbet is Aberdeen's apical scorer this play with 12 goals, including 3 successful the league, and the striker volition beryllium looked upon to marque the quality erstwhile again connected Sunday.

Meanwhile, Zach Mitchell is retired for the play with a cruciate ligament injury, portion Jamie Gullan is simply a uncertainty owed to an wounded concern. 

Cheick Diabate volition besides beryllium unavailable aft being sent disconnected successful the gully with Falkirk earlier the planetary break, meaning a caller cardinal antiaircraft concern of Morgan Boyes and Danny Finlayson could start.

Aberdeen imaginable starting lineup:

Muller; Milne, Knoester, Molloy; Cadden, Ronan, Marshall, Afeez, Guinness-Walker; Olusanya, Nisbet

St Johnstone imaginable starting lineup:

Steward; Smith, Finlayson, Boyes, Alic; McAlear, Holt; Campbell, Cotterill, Steven; Fowler

We say: Aberdeen 2-1 St Johnstone

St Johnstone are winless connected the roadworthy and person a miserable caller grounds against the Dons, and with Aberdeen arriving into Sunday's crippled with momentum, we are predicting the hosts volition win.

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