Ross County are the visitors to Pittodrie in the second instalment of the Scottish Premiership's festive trilogy.

The hosts lost out 1-0 to Motherwell on Boxing Day, while County slipped to a 2-0 home defeat against Hibs.

Both squads have suffered from injuries in recent games. Aberdeen have Andrew Considine and Clark Robertson out, although Mark Reynolds returns and is expected to start in defence. Meanwhile, County manager and former Aberdeen midfielder Derek Adams will hope Steven Saunders recovers from the hamstring injury which kept him out of Boxing Day's match.

Aberdeen can go second with a victory, while County can move to within one point of Partick Thistle in tenth.

Dons boss Derek McInnes was confident of the result going his team's way: "Ross County have been struggling to get any sort of result this season.

"They signed a lot of players in the summer so it might take a bit longer for them to settle, that might happen in the second half of the season.

"But they are always competitive and I expect that to be the case on Sunday.

"Their poor run has to stop sometime - we are just hoping it is not at our place.

"We have to take advantage of being at home. That means the onus is on us to take the game to Ross County."

Meanwhile, Ross County midfielder Stuart Kettlewell was confident his side could turn their fortunes around: "In recent weeks it's been difficult because we seem to be losing the first goal.

"It's up to us to see if we can score the first goal and that gives us a base to hold onto.

"We did that against Aberdeen [earlier in the season]. We got the first goal and we were able to hold onto that.

"We looked good that day and we look to see what we can do against them on Sunday.

"Aberdeen are doing very well but we've got a good record against them over the past season-and-a-half and we draw on the positives from that.

"We know it won't be easy but we've got to go into the game feeling confident and believe in ourselves and hopefully we can get a result out of it."

Predicted line-ups:

Aberdeen (4-2-3-1)

Langfield; Hector, Anderson, Shaughnessy, Reynolds; Flood, Jack; Robson, Pawlett, McGinn; Vernon.

Ross County (4-5-1)

Brown; Kovacevic, Boyd, Saunders, Gordon; Brittain, Quinn, De Leeuw, Carey, McLean; Luckassen.