Aberdeen v St. Johnstone

Aberdeen face St. Johnstone on Saturday seeking to protect their long unbeaten run in the Premiership.

Aberdeen are unbeaten in five, with three wins and two draws, ahead of the 3pm kick-off.

They face a St. Johnstone team who have won just one and lost four over the same number of games.

In the last 10 years, Aberdeen and St. Johnstone have played each other on 37 occasions. Aberdeen won 15 of them, St. Johnstone 10, and they drew 12 times.

On average, Aberdeen scored 1.1 goals and the Saints 0.9 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on February 28, when St. Johnstone won 2-0 away.

In Bojan Miovski, Aberdeen have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched 14 goals in 34 appearances, to sit third in the scoring charts.

His goal rate of one every 212 minutes is slightly quicker than that of Nicholas Clark, St. Johnstone's top scorer with a goal every 173 minutes, and a total of six goals in 17 games.

The Saints are 10th in the table after 34 games, of which they have won seven and drawn 10, earning 31 points.

The home team are two places ahead of the visitors in eighth, with nine wins and 11 draws putting them on 38 points.

With 25 goals in 34 games so far this season, St. Johnstone are the league's second-lowest scorers with 0.7 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 49 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.

Aberdeen are also below average scorers, with 1.1 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.3. They have conceded 1.4 goals per game.

Aberdeen's last match was on April 27, a 1-0 win against Motherwell, with Stefan Gartenmann getting the goal for Aberdeen.

St. Johnstone lost 3-1 against Hibernian last time out, also on April 27, with Benjamin Mbunga-Kimpioka on the scoresheet.