Aberdeen 2-1 Hearts: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 9 December 2023
Result
Aberdeen 2-1 Hearts
Premiership · Saturday 9 December 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Aberdeen 2-1 Hearts: match report
Aberdeen won against Hearts 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 9 December 2023. The half-time score was 0-1.
Lawrence Shankland opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Aberdeen's goals came from Bojan Miovski (53') and Leighton Clarkson (90+2'). Hearts scored through Lawrence Shankland (20').
Discipline: Aberdeen received 3 yellow cards; Hearts received 7 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aberdeen were 11th on 13 points from 14 and Hearts 3rd on 23 points from 15. Aberdeen went on to finish that season 5th with 48 points, and Hearts 3rd with 68.
Aberdeen lined up in a 3-5-2 and Hearts in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie McGrath of Aberdeen (7.8), ahead of Duk (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aberdeen wins, 0 draws and 3 for Hearts.
Going into the match Aberdeen's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Hearts's L-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Lawrence Shankland
- 33'Yellow card · Calem Nieuwenhof
- 41'Yellow card · Alex Lowry
- 53'Goal · Bojan Miovski
- 59'Yellow card · Stefan Gartenmann
- 64'Yellow card · Beni Baningime
- 65'Yellow card · Frankie Kent
- 65'Yellow card · Bojan Miovski
- 73'Yellow card · Kye Rowles
- 78'Yellow card · Jamie McGrath
- 88'Yellow card · Aidan Denholm
- 90+2'Goal · Leighton Clarkson
- 90+5'Yellow card · Lawrence Shankland
Head-to-head
Team news
Aberdeen line-up (3-5-2)
Kelle Roos, Nicky Devlin, Stefan Gartenmann, Richard Jensen, Jack Milne, Leighton Clarkson, Graeme Shinnie, Jonny Hayes, Jamie McGrath, Bojan Miovski, Ester Sokler
Hearts line-up (3-5-2)
Zander Clark, Stephen Kingsley, Frankie Kent, Kye Rowles, Toby Sibbick, Calem Nieuwenhof, Beni Baningime, Alex Lowry, Alex Cochrane, Lawrence Shankland, Kenneth Vargas