Aberdeen vs St Mirren - prediction, team news, lineups

Aberdeen invited relegation battling St Mirren to Pittodrie Stadium connected Tuesday nighttime for a matchday 37 clash successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are eighth successful the standings with 40 points from 36 games, portion the visitors are successful the relegation playoff spot and 4 points adrift from safety. 

Match preview

Aberdeen person had a mostly underwhelming campaign, including dropping from a fifth-placed decorativeness past word to failing to adjacent suffice for the title radical of the post-split word this season. 

The Dons finished the pre-split Scottish Premiership word with 33 points from 33 games, aft 9 wins, six draws and 18 defeats, leaving them eighth successful the array and lone 5 points supra the driblet zone. 

However, a 2-0 triumph implicit Hibernian successful the last pre-split crippled has sparked a importantly improved tally nether caller brag Stephen Robinson, who was lone appointed successful March. 

Robinson's broadside person subsequently won 2 and drawn 1 of their 3 post-split games, meaning they person climbed to 10 points wide of the bottommost two, ensuring their top-flight endurance with lone 2 games remaining.

Regardless, Robinson volition beryllium aiming to support their momentum successful the last 2 matches to physique a beardown instauration up of his archetypal afloat play successful complaint successful 2026-27. 

Aberdeen volition beryllium the beardown favourites to assertion each 3 points against the struggling St Mirren, though the Saints volition beryllium motivated to prime up points arsenic they effort to flight the bottommost 2 earlier the campaign's conclusion. 

St Mirren person dropped retired of the apical six for the archetypal clip since 2021-22, finishing 10th successful the pre-split table, and the Saints are present staring down the tube of a daze relegation from the top-flight altogether.

With defeats successful each of their 3 post-split league games, St Mirren person fallen from 10th into the relegation playoff spot, wherever they present way 10th-placed Kilmarnock successful information by 4 points. 

Craig McLeish volition beryllium hopeless to debar competing successful the relegation playoffs, meaning they volition person to overturn the existent four-point shortage successful the last 2 matches of the Scottish Premiership season. 

The Saints volition gully assurance from their 2-0 triumph implicit Aberdeen successful April, portion they person besides won 1 and drawn 1 of their past 2 visits to Pittodrie Stadium.

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Team News

Aberdeen volition beryllium without Kristers Tobers and Tom McIntyre owed to wounded issues, portion Dennis Geiger is simply a uncertainty aft coming disconnected injured successful the triumph against Dundee United past clip out. 

As a effect of their 2-0 triumph successful that game, Robinson whitethorn opt to sanction a mostly unchanged side, with the objection of Graeme Shinnie replacing Geiger.

Meanwhile, St Mirren are dealing with injuries to Declan John, Dan Nlundulu, Jonah Ayunga, Ryan Mullen, Shamal George, Keanu Baccus and Malik Dijksteel, portion Conor McMenamin is simply a doubt. 

Scott Tanser is apt to regenerate McMenamin connected the near flank, with Mark O'Hara continuing connected the right, portion Jacob Devaney and Allan Campbell are besides apt to support their spots successful the mediate of the park.

Aberdeen imaginable starting lineup:

Mitov; Milne, Morrison, Knoester, Molloy; Shinnie, Afeez, Gyamfi; Armstrong; Olusanya, Nisbet

St Mirren imaginable starting lineup:

Sinclair; Fraser, Donnelly, Freckleton; O'Hara, Devaney, Campbell, Tanser; Idowu, Mandron, Phillips

We say: Aberdeen 2-0 St Mirren

Aberdeen person enjoyed a important upturn successful form, with 3 wins and 1 gully successful their past four, and we judge the hosts volition widen St Mirren's losing streak to six consecutive defeats.

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