Match Preview: Aberdeen v St Mirren (30th Nov)

Match Preview: Aberdeen v St Mirren (30th Nov)

St Mirren make the trip up the A90 as Jim Goodwin's side get set to take on Aberdeen in the Ladbrokes Premiership.

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The Buddies are still looking for their first point on the road this season having lost in seven away matches in the league. 

Saints last away win was on 18th May when Cody Cooke's second-half hat-trick gave the Buddies a 3-2 win over Dundee at Dens Park.

Jim Goodwin's side face Aberdeen tomorrow following a narrow 2-1 loss against Hibernian at the Simple Digital Arena on Tuesday night. Junior Morias pulled a late goal back for the Buddies but it wasn't enough to avoid a first home defeat since August. 

A 2-1 win over Ross County last week moved Saints off the bottom of the table and up to 10th place. The Buddies are one of four teams currently tied on 11 points in the league with Hamilton and St Johnstone in 11th and 12th place behind Saints on goal difference, while Hearts are in ninth due to their superior goal difference. 

Third place Aberdeen come into the match on the back of a 1-1 draw with St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park on Sunday. Sam Cosgrove gave Derek McInnes' side a first-half lead, but St Johnstone, who ended the match with just nine men, levelled with just over 10 minutes remaining to take a share of the spoils. 

That draw halted a three match winning run for the Dons who had seen off Ross County (3-1), Kilmarnock (3-0) and Hamilton (1-0). 

Indeed their only loss in their last seven matches came against Celtic - losing 4-0 at Pittodrie to the league leaders in October.  

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Saints last faced Aberdeen in August with Ilkay Durmus' early strike giving the Buddies their first win against Aberdeen 

The Buddies also took a point the last time they travelled to Aberdeen with Duckens Nazon and Kyle McAllister scoring in a 2-2 draw at Pittodrie in February.

Aberdeen's last win against Saints was in December of last year when Stevie May and Sam Cosgrove scored either side of Cammy MacPherson's first St Mirren goal to give the Dons a 2-1 victory. 

St Mirren's last league win at Pittodrie came in May 2011 as Gareth Wardlaw's second-half strike secured Premiership survival for Saints.

TEAM NEWS

Kirk Broadfoot remains out for Saints, but everyone else is available.

Craig Bryson could miss out for the Dons after taking a knock in Sunday's draw with St Johnstone, while loanee Zak Vyner is expected to return to the squad.

MANAGER'S THOUGHTS

"Right through the spine of the team they have quite a physical presence. They've also got players in the wide areas, the likes of Niall McGinn & Ryan Hedges and one or two others, that can definitely cause you problems.

"But I do think that Aberdeen have areas in their team that we can get at as well. It's not a case of us going up there and being backs to the wall for 90 minutes. 

"If we can take confidence from what we did in the previous game against them we won't be far away I don't think."

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