Hearts 2-1 Aberdeen: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 20 October 2018

Result

Hearts 2-1 Aberdeen

Premiership · Saturday 20 October 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Hearts · Aberdeen · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-1 Aberdeen: match report

Hearts won against Aberdeen 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 20 October 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Arnaud Djoum opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Hearts's goals came from Arnaud Djoum (36') and S. Naismith (43', penalty). Aberdeen scored through Gary Mackay-Steven (55', penalty).

Discipline: Hearts received 5 yellow cards; Aberdeen received 6 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 1st on 19 points from 8 and Aberdeen 7th on 12 points from 8. Hearts went on to finish that season 7th with 51 points, and Aberdeen 4th with 67.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Hearts win, 2 draws and 1 for Aberdeen.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Dominic BallAberdeen
  • 19'Yellow card · Arnaud DjoumHearts
  • 20'Yellow card · Gary Mackay-StevenAberdeen
  • 29'Yellow card · M. GodinhoHearts
  • 36'Goal · Arnaud DjoumHearts · 1-0
  • 36'Yellow card · Andy ConsidineAberdeen
  • 42'Yellow card · Michael DevlinAberdeen
  • 43'Penalty goal · S. NaismithHearts · 2-0
  • 55'Penalty goal · Gary Mackay-StevenAberdeen · 2-1
  • 57'Yellow card · C. MorrisonHearts
  • 68'Yellow card · Lewis FergusonAberdeen
  • 71'Yellow card · S. NaismithHearts
  • 78'Yellow card · S. LoganAberdeen
  • 79'Missed penalty · S. NaismithHearts
  • 89'Yellow card · Sean ClareHearts

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Hearts 1, draws 2, Aberdeen 1.

Team news

Hearts line-up

Zdeněk Zlámal, Jimmy Dunne, M. Godinho, Clevid Dikamona, Oliver Božanić, Oliver Lee, Arnaud Djoum, Demetri Mitchell, Steven Naismith, Steven MacLean, Callumn Morrison

Aberdeen line-up

Joe Lewis, Shaleum Logan, Andy Considine, Michael Devlin, Max Lowe, Graeme Shinnie, Gary Mackay-Steven, Lewis Ferguson, Dominic Ball, Sam Cosgrove, James Wilson