Livingston vs Aberdeen - prediction, team news, lineups

Livingston and Aberdeen volition clash astatine the Home of the Set Fare Arena connected Friday nighttime successful the Scottish Premiership.

The hosts stay bottommost of the standings and 11 points adrift from safety, portion the visitors are 2nd successful the relegation radical array and six points supra the driblet zone.

Match preview

Livingston's challenging archetypal play backmost successful the Scottish Premiership appeared destined to extremity successful relegation, arsenic they went into the post-split run trailing 11th-placed Kilmarnock by 12 points and 10th-placed St Mirren by 14 points. 

However, the Lions secured conscionable their 2nd league triumph of the run - and their archetypal since August - successful the opening lucifer of the relegation group, keeping their slim chances of endurance alive. 

Marvin Bartley's broadside recorded a captious 2-0 triumph implicit St Mirren astatine the SMISA Stadium, courtesy of an own-goal from Alexander Gogic and Scott Pittman's strike, meaning Livingston present trail 10th-placed St Mirren by 11 points and 11th-placed Killie, successful the relegation playoff place, by 9 points. 

As conscionable 4 matches of the 2025-26 play remain, Livingston volition person to replicate that occurrence successful the coming weeks, portion besides hoping for results elsewhere to spell their way, if they are to emergence from the bottommost of the array into astatine slightest the relegation playoff place.

Livingston's location support, therefore, is definite to beryllium rocking erstwhile they invited Aberdeen to the Home of the Set Fare Arena connected Friday, with the Lions desperately searching for different 3 points. 

Despite Livingston's location vantage and triumph past clip out, the Dons stay the overwhelming favourites heading into this clash, particularly fixed their ain upturn successful signifier successful caller weeks. 

Aberdeen ended a disastrous nine-game winless tally successful the league with a 2-0 triumph implicit Hibernian connected the last time of the pre-split campaign, and Stephen Robinson's men followed that up with a 1-0 triumph against Kilmarnock past weekend.

Those results person lifted Aberdeen to eighth successful the wide Scottish Premiership standings, extending their pb implicit the driblet portion to a steadfast 8 points with conscionable 4 fixtures near to play. 

Robinson, who was lone appointed successful March, volition privation his squad to guarantee their information by picking up different 3 points connected Friday, arsenic good arsenic gathering a instauration to physique upon adjacent campaign. 

Although the Dons person faced utmost difficulties passim the term, they person remained ascendant successful this fixture, winning 2 and drafting 1 of their 3 meetings against Livingston this season.

Livingston Scottish Premiership form:

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Aberdeen Scottish Premiership form:

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Aberdeen signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Livingston are anticipated to beryllium without Aidan Denholm, Connor McLennan and Babacar Fati for Friday's clash owed to ongoing wounded issues. 

Off the backmost of signaling their archetypal triumph since August, Bartley is apt to sanction an unchanged broadside connected Friday, with the imaginable objection of Cristian Montano replacing Fati connected the near flank.

Meanwhile, Aberdeen are dealing with injuries to Nick Suman, Nicky Devlin, Kristers Tobers, Tom McIntyre and Emmanuel Gyamfi. 

Robinson could besides look to sanction a mostly unchanged squad connected Friday, including past weekend's lucifer victor Aremu Afeez successful midfield.

Livingston imaginable starting lineup:

Prior; Kabongolo, Wilson, McGowan; Finlayson, Arfield, Sylla, Montano; Smith, May; Nouble

Aberdeen imaginable starting lineup:

Mitov; Milne, Morrison, Molloy; Jensen, Afeez, Armstrong, Frame; Cameron; Olusanya, Nisbet

We say: Livingston 0-2 Aberdeen

Livingston whitethorn beryllium boosted by their caller win, but Aberdeen person looked improved nether Robinson, peculiarly successful their back-to-back victories heading into this match. 

The Dons besides kept cleanable sheets successful those matches, their archetypal consecutive cleanable sheets since November, starring america to expect an distant triumph and different shutout for Aberdeen.

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