Aberdeen vs St Mirren - prediction, team news, lineups

Aberdeen invited St Mirren to Pittodrie Stadium connected Saturday for a matchday 9 clash successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are eighth successful the standings with 8 points, 2 points and 1 spot down the seventh-placed visitors.

Match preview

Aberdeen person had a mixed commencement to the 2026-27 Scottish Premiership season, winning two, drafting 2 and losing 4 of their archetypal 8 league fixtures. 

The Dons initially enjoyed a fantastic opening to the caller run arsenic they won each of their archetypal 5 matches, winning each 4 Scottish League Cup radical games earlier beating Hearts 2-1 successful the league's opening matchday. 

However, Stephen Robinson's broadside person subsequently mislaid four, drawn 2 and won conscionable 1 of their adjacent 7 Scottish Premiership fixtures, including a peculiarly disappointing 1-0 decision to St Johnstone past clip out. 

Despite dominating possession, with 66% to 34%, and taking 23 shots to St Johnstone's six efforts, the Dons yet failed to get connected the scoresheet - a occupation that has followed them crossed the past 7 matchdays. 

Aberdeen person scored conscionable 5 goals successful their past 7 league fixtures, including 4 coming successful the daze 4-0 triumph against Motherwell connected September 15.

Aberdeen volition beryllium hopeless to amended upon their dismal attacking returns and unafraid a much-needed triumph connected Saturday, and a clash with the defensively susceptible St Mirren could supply the cleanable opportunity. 

St Mirren person conceded a sizeable 14 goals successful conscionable 8 Scottish Premiership matches, with lone bottom-placed Kilmarnock conceding much (18). 

11 of those goals person travel during their ongoing disastrous four-game losing streak, including shipping 5 successful the humiliating 5-0 nonaccomplishment to Hearts past weekend. 

That tally of losses brought an extremity to St Mirren's unbeaten commencement to the Scottish Premiership season, having won 3 and drawn 1 of their opening 4 league fixtures. 

Craig McLeish volition beryllium hopeless to debar suffering a 5th consecutive decision connected Saturday afternoon, and the distant broadside volition look to gully assurance from their caller grounds against the Dons. 

St Mirren person won each of their past 2 clashes with Aberdeen, including a 2-0 triumph astatine Pittodrie successful May 2026.

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Team News

Aberdeen are acceptable to beryllium without Kristers Tobers until aboriginal this period owed to a genu injury, portion Emmanuel Gyamfi is simply a uncertainty with a thigh issue. 

Despite Aberdeen's goalscoring struggles, Kevin Nisbet is enjoying a fruitful idiosyncratic season, scoring 12 goals crossed each competitions, and the Dons volition beryllium looking to the striker to marque the quality here.

St Mirren, meanwhile, volition beryllium incapable to telephone upon Keanu Baccus, Malik Dijksteel and Jonah Ayunga owed to ongoing wounded issues. 

After the devastating 5-0 decision to Hearts past weekend, McLeish is apt to marque galore changes to the starting squad successful hunt of an improved show connected Saturday. 

As a result, the likes of Marcus Fraser, Eseosa Sule, Liam Donnelly and Luke Thomas could each start.

Aberdeen imaginable starting lineup:

Muller; Milne, Knoester, Molloy; Cadden, Ronan, Lyons, Marshall, Guinness-Walker; Mouloua, Nisbet

St Mirren imaginable starting lineup:

Chapman; Fraser, Gogic, Fieldson, John; Donnelly, Nsio; Thomas, Young, Sule; Phillips

We say: Aberdeen 1-0 St Mirren

St Mirren are enduring a disastrous tally of form, and though Aberdeen person struggled for goals successful caller weeks, the Dons should person capable to get implicit the enactment with the win.

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