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

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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 0 Aberdeen wins, 0 draws and 1 for Hearts.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Lawrence ShanklandHearts · 0-1
  • 33'Yellow card · Calem NieuwenhofHearts
  • 41'Yellow card · Alex LowryHearts
  • 53'Goal · Bojan MiovskiAberdeen · 1-1
  • 59'Yellow card · Stefan GartenmannAberdeen
  • 64'Yellow card · Beni BaningimeHearts
  • 65'Yellow card · Frankie KentHearts
  • 65'Yellow card · Bojan MiovskiAberdeen
  • 73'Yellow card · Kye RowlesHearts
  • 78'Yellow card · Jamie McGrathAberdeen
  • 88'Yellow card · Aidan DenholmHearts
  • 90+2'Goal · Leighton ClarksonAberdeen · 2-1
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Lawrence ShanklandHearts

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Aberdeen 0, draws 0, Hearts 1.

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