Aberdeen will be looking to return to the winning ways this Wednesday when they travel to Tynecastle Stadium for a battle against Hearts in the 29th match day of the Scottish Premiership. Kickoffs at 22:45 EAT.
At home, Hearts is one of the best teams in the premiership however they just returned to the winning ways in their last game. They are now placed third in the table with 46 points, 11 points above the fourth-placed team. Coming into this game, they have one win, a draw and three loses in their last five matches.
The Jambos gets into this fixture confident following 0-2 Premiership triumph over St Mirren in their last encounter. In that game, Hearts had 63% possession, 19 shots with nine of them on target and goals scored by Ellis Simms (64′) and Cameron Devlin (67′). The opponents St Mirren got six shots with none of them on target.
Meanwhile, Aberdeen is on a long winless run, and is already placed in the bottom-most tier of the table. Currently they sit 9th with 32 points in the table. They are conceding goals in huge numbers, and they have been a mess on the road right from the start of the campaign. In their last five games, they are without a win with three draws and two loses.
The Dons head into this meeting coming off 1-1 stalemate in the Premiership with Dundee United. In that match, Aberdeen had 53% possession, 13 shots with five of them on target and an own goal scored by Ryan Edwards (16′). Dundee United got six shots with three of them on target and a goal by Marc McNulty (4′).
Hearts vs Aberdeen head to head
These two teams have 97 matches against each other since 1994. Hearts boast a slight upper hand having won 43 times while Aberdeen won 30 times and 24 draws have been recorded in that period.
- Aberdeen 2-1 Hearts 30/10/21
- Hearts 1-1 Aberdeen 22/08/21
- Hearts 1-1 Aberdeen 29/12/19
- Hearts 3-0 Aberdeen 25/09/19
- Aberdeen 3-2 Hearts04/08/19
Home
- St. Mirren 0-2 Hearts
- St Johnstone 2-1 Hearts
- Hearts 4-3 Livingston
- Hearts 1-2 Dundee
- Rangers 5-0 Hearts
Away
- Aberdeen 1-1 Dundee United
- Motherwell 1-1 Aberdeen
- Aberdeen 1-1 St Johnstone
- Motherwell 2-1 Aberdeen
- Aberdeen 2-3 Celtic
Hearts team news
Michael Smith is the only injury concern for the hosts and will miss out this game with injury.
Aberdeen team news
Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin will be without Michael Devlin, Dante Polvara, Marley Watkins and Andy Considine who are recuperating from injuries.
Prediction and odds
Hearts had won two of their last three overall games, and they had also won 13 of their past 19 appearances at home while Aberdeen are on an eight-match winless run and it should be noted that they have won just once on the road since August.
- Hearts win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both teams to score
