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Aberdeen vs Motherwell is a closely balanced Scottish Premiership fixture, with neither side establishing lasting control across their competitive meetings. The balance is visible in the February 2026 sequence: Aberdeen won 2–0 in the FA Cup on 18 February, and Motherwell answered with a 2–0 Premiership victory three days earlier. Taken together, those results show how readily the outcome can reverse even when the scoreline is identical.
Past matches, Aberdeen vs Motherwell
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Motherwell
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21G
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63M
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2D
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47F
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19F
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15F
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77F
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20D
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4D
Aberdeen Substitutes
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M
10
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D
26
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G
30
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D
22
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F
9
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F
31
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F
11
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M
17
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F
7
Match events
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12'Lewis Mayo Yellow Card
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38'⚽Gavin Molloy Normal Goal
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40'Tom Sparrow Yellow Card
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45'Jack Milne Lewis Mayo
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46'⚽Connor Patrick Ronan Normal Goal (Asst: Kevin Nisbet)
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53'Sebastian Palmer-Houlden Tawanda Maswanhise
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53'Ibrahim Said Jardell Kanga
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53'Emmanuel Longelo Yellow Card
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63'Afeez Aremu Olalekan Yellow Card
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64'Alexander Briedl Afeez Aremu Olalekan
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67'Willy Gabriel Vogt Regan Charles-Cook
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68'Dylan Levitt Joe Hodge
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72'Stuart Armstrong Findlay Marshall
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72'Ayoub Mouloua Toyosi Olusanya
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75'Eythor Bjørgolfsson Alex·Lowry
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76'⚽Ayoub Mouloua Normal Goal (Asst: Connor Patrick Ronan)
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76'Ayoub Mouloua Yellow Card
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78'Daniel Happe Mats Knoester
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87'⚽Kevin Nisbet Normal Goal (Asst: Marius Müller)
Stats for this game
Matchup Aberdeen VS Motherwell
Margins remain narrow
The wider picture reinforces the sense of parity. A 1–1 Premiership draw on 9 November 2025 offered no separation, while Aberdeen’s 4–1 win on 29 March 2025 showed that the balance can still swing within a single afternoon. Neither result erases the broader closeness between the clubs. Instead, they illustrate two versions of the same matchup: a shared outcome or a clear win when one side establishes a decisive margin.
What to watch
Because the historical balance is so close, neither club owns an uncontested position in the pairing. The exchanged 2–0 results in February provide an especially direct reminder that a strong outcome for one side need not settle the wider comparison. The 1–1 draw keeps shared points firmly within that outlook. Future meetings can therefore be read against two credible possibilities: one team creates meaningful separation, or another reversal reinforces the fixture’s resistance to a fixed hierarchy.