On the 17th of September, in this week 8 match, Hibernian and Aberdeen will play a match in Edinburgh in a meeting of these two Premiership teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Hibernian sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Kilmarnock. Joe Newell struck first for Hibernian in the 12th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Kilmarnock couldn’t muster any offence and Hibernian ran away with the shutout win. Hibernian is looking for direction having 2 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches, while aberdeen is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Ross County. Luis Lopes scored the first goal for Aberdeen in the 88th minute, but William Akio got the equalizer for Ross County in the 5th minute of the second half’s stoppage time squeezing out at least the one point for Ross County. Aberdeen is looking for direction having 3 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Aberdeen won the head to head battle with 1 draw and 1 losss.
Aberdeen is fortunate enough to have Bojan Miovski in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 5 goals. Martin Boyle has been the most prolific scorer on Hibernian in his last 5 matches with 2 goals.