Aberdeen v Kilmarnock: Pick of the stats

Aberdeen lost all three of their league meetings with Kilmarnock last season, all without scoring. This is as many defeats as they had suffered in their previous 35 league matches against Killie beforehand (W25 D7 L3).

After winning their visit to Aberdeen in last season’s Scottish Premiership 1-0 in December, Kilmarnock could win successive league trips against the Dons for the first time since August 2010.

Aberdeen are unbeaten in their last 11 league games (W8 D3), last going 12 without loss in the Scottish Premiership in February 2016 – that includes two wins from two this season, with the Dons last winning their opening three games of a top-flight campaign in 2017-18.

Kilmarnock have lost their opening two Scottish Premiership games of the 2024-25 season by an aggregate score of 0-7 (0-4 v Celtic, 0-3 v St. Johnstone); the only team to have made a worse pointless start in the competition after two games this century are Hamilton Academical in 2010-11 (minus eight goal difference).

Jamie McGrath has been directly involved in five goals in his last three Scottish Premiership appearances (three goals, two assists), scoring and assisting in each of Aberdeen’s two league games this term; the last player to score and assist in three straight outings in the competition was Celtic’s Anthony Stokes in May 2014.