Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland at Pittodrie

With a record that reads seven wins out of seven games, Jimmy Thelin has made a perfect start to life in Scottish football.

Thelin’s Aberdeen team have played some attractive stuff at times during that run and one thing that already appears clear is he looks to have instilled a 'get the job done' mentality into a group who seem to know how to win matches.

Today's opponents Kilmarnock have been having to juggle domestic and European commitments and so far have found the busy fixture schedule difficult.

Today’s game falls between the two legs of their Conference League play-off with Copenhagen.

As they look to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit, manager Derek McInnes has admitted he will be prioritising European matters – but he will be hoping he has enough in his squad to take something from this afternoon’s trip to his former home of Pittodrie.

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There are two changes for Kilmarnock with Robbie Deas replacing the suspended Joe Wright in defence and winger Danny Armstrong starting in the absence of captain Kyle Vassell, the striker having picked up a knock in Copenhagen on Thursday.

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Aberdeen's Saturday on-loan signing from Millwall, Kevin Nisbet, is among the substitutes against Motherwell.

The former Hibernian striker has joined on loan from Millwall.

Two changes for the hosts with centre-half Slobodan Rubezic and winger Topi Keskinen replacing Jack Milne and Shayden Morris, who both make the bench.

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Aberdeen: Mitov, Devlin, Molloy, Rubezic, MacKenzie, McGrath, Heltne Nilsen, Shinnie, Keskinen, Gueye, Sokler.

Substitutes: Doohan, Nisbet, McGarry, Besuijen, Palaversa, Morris, Milne, MacDonald, Ambrose.

Kilmarnock: O'Hara, Burroughs, Mayo, Deas, Findlay, Lyons, Watson, Donnelly, Kennedy, Armstrong, Watkins.

Substitutes: McCrorie, Ndaba, McKenzie, Mackay-Steven, Wales, Cameron, Anderson, Polworth, Bainbridge.

Motherwell: Oxborough, O'Donnell, Casey, Gordon, McGinn, Wilson, Zdravkovski, Halliday, Miller, Maswanhise, Robinson.

Substitutes: Hegyi, Seddon, Balmer, Sparrow, Kaleta, Ebiye, Wells, Ferrie, Watt.

Hearts: Gordon, Kingsley, Kent, Rowles, Taylor, Spittal, Boateng, Salazar, Forrest, Dhanda, Shankland.

Substitutes: Clark, Halkett, Oyegoke, Grant, McKay, Oda, Devlin, Boyce, Vargas.

There will be reaction from Paisley to come but let's get some team news from the remaining two Scottish Premiership fixtures of the weekend.

A very comfortable Sunday lunchtime for Celtic with three goals and another three points.

Callum McGregor, Reo Hatate and Alistair Johnston scored the goals for the defending champions and St Mirren just couldn't find a response.

That's nine points out of nine with nine goals scored and none conceded for Brendan Rodgers' side. Rangers visit Celtic Park next Sunday. St Mirren take on hosts Dundee on Saturday.

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Five additional minutes to be played in Paisley.

Reo Hatate makes way for Celtic with 18-year-old Francis Turley coming on for his club debut.

St Mirren's Toyosi Olusanya is replaced by Ethan Sutherland for the final few minutes.

Two Celtic substitutes combine as Nicolas Kuhn tees up Anthony Ralston but the Scotland international cannot keep his effort down.

Last 10 minutes in Paisley.

Alistair Johnston is off the mark for the season after scoring Celtic's third.

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Odin Holm is given a rare appearance off the bench for Celtic as Paulo Barnardo makes way Anthony Ralston also comes on to take over from Greg Taylor.

Killian Phillips comes off for St Mirren with Oisin Smyth taking his place.

St Mirren's Shaun Rooney and Celtic's Greg Taylor got into a bit of a tussle there and both players were booked.

Daizen Maeda heads wide from a Paulo Bernardo corner.

Almost a third for Celtic.

Kyogo Furuhashi makes a typical run to beat St Mirren's offside trap and his low shot is well saved by Ellery Balcombe.

It's been a tough St Mirren debut for Killian Phillips.

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