In this week 5 match, on Saturday Sep 16th, Aberdeen will travel to Edinburgh to battle Hearts in a meeting of these two closely matched Premiership teams. Hearts is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Motherwell. Callum Slattery scored the first goal for Motherwell in the 29th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Hearts couldn’t manage to score, and Motherwell took the shutout win. Hearts looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 2 of their last 10, while aberdeen is fresh off their 0-2 loss against Hibernian. Adam Le Fondre struck first for Hibernian in the 75th minute on a feed from Joe Newell, then Christian Doidge added another in the 81st minute In the end, Aberdeen couldn’t muster any offence and Hibernian ran away with the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 2 of their last 10.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 wins each.
Aberdeen is fortunate enough to have Bojan Miovski in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals. Lawrence Shankland and Yutaro Oda are the top scorers for Hearts in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.