Aberdeen 0-2 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 8 December 2018

Result

Aberdeen 0-2 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 8 December 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aberdeen 0-2 St. Johnstone: match report

Aberdeen were beaten by St. Johnstone 0-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 8 December 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Joe Shaughnessy opened the scoring in the 71st minute. Aberdeen did not score. St. Johnstone scored through Joe Shaughnessy (71') and Blair Alston (74').

Discipline: Aberdeen received 1 yellow card; St. Johnstone received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aberdeen were 6th on 24 points from 14 and St. Johnstone 5th on 25 points from 15. Aberdeen went on to finish that season 4th with 67 points, and St. Johnstone 6th with 52.

Aberdeen lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and St. Johnstone in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aberdeen wins, 4 draws and 2 for St. Johnstone.

Going into the match Aberdeen's last five read W-L-W-W-W and St. Johnstone's D-D-W-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Graeme ShinnieAberdeen
  • 36'Yellow card · Liam CraigSt. Johnstone
  • 56'Yellow card · Scott TanserSt. Johnstone
  • 71'Goal · Joe ShaughnessySt. Johnstone · 0-1
  • 74'Goal · Blair AlstonSt. Johnstone · 0-2
  • 77'Yellow card · Murray DavidsonSt. Johnstone

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aberdeen 4, draws 4, St. Johnstone 2.

Team news

Aberdeen line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Lewis, Shaleum Logan, Andy Considine, Scott McKenna, Max Lowe, Dominic Ball, Graeme Shinnie, Connor McLennan, Lewis Ferguson, Scott Wright, Stevie May

St. Johnstone line-up (4-4-1-1)

Zander Clark, Richard Foster, Jason Kerr, Joe Shaughnessy, Scott Tanser, R. Callachan, Murray Davidson, Liam Craig, David Wotherspoon, Matty Kennedy, Tony Watt