Aberdeen's Curtis Main makes just his second league start of the season having been preferred to Sam Cosgrove up front.

Greg Leigh and the suspended Lewis Ferguson also drop out from last weekend's 1-1 draw at St Mirren, with midfielders Dean Campbell and Connor McLennan promoted from the bench.

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Ross County make three changes from the 4-0 home defeat to Rangers as defender Connor Randall and midfielder Regan Charles-Cook and Stephen Kelly are handed starts.

Keith Watson misses out through injury, with Josh Reid and Michael Gardyne among the substitutes.

Aberdeen: Lewis, Hoban, Considine, Taylor, McCrorie, Campbell, McLennan, Hayes, Kennedy, Hedges, Main.

Substitutes: Ritchie, Logan, Ojo, McGinn, Cosgrove, Hernandez, Edmondson, Ngwenya, Ramsay.

Ross County: Laidlaw, Randall, Donaldson, Morris, Iacovitti, Vigurs, Charles-Cook, Kelly, Tillson, Paton, Stewart.

Substitutes: Gardyne, McKay, Hylton, Reid, Wright, Williamson, Doohan.

Hibernian boss Jack Ross says the chance to leapfrog Celtic and move up into second spot in the Premiership gives his side "an extra incentive" against Hamilton Accies.

"All season we've worked towards keeping our points ticking over," he tells BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "Today's another opportunity to try to win the game and put three points on the board."

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"At this stage of the season - 17 [Premiership] games into it - to have that opportunity [to go second] is extra incentive."

St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson has made two changes to the side that drew 1-1 away to Celtic last Sunday as captain Jason Kerr returns to the side in place of Shaun Rooney.

The other change sees Chris Kane come in for Michael O'Halloran, who was injured after a collision with Celtic captain Scott Brown last weekend.

As for Livingston, interim head coach David Martindale keeps the same starting line-up that beat Dundee United 2-0 at the Tony Macaroni Arena last Saturday.

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Billy Dodds
Former Scotland striker on BBC Sportsound

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Hamilton Academical: Fulton, Stirling, A Martin, Easton, Hodson, S Martin, Trafford, McMann, Callachan, C Smith, Moyo.

Substitutes: Gourlay, Hamilton, Hughes, Stanger, Winter, Munro, Thomas, Mimnaugh, Owolabi.

Hibernian: Marciano, P. McGinn, Porteous, Hanlon, Stevenson, Wright, Hallberg, Newell, Boyle, Doidge, Nisbet.

Substitutes: Barnes, Gray, McGregor, Doig, S. McGinn, Magennis, Mallan, Bradley, Gullan.

St Johnstone: Clark, Kerr, Gordon, McCart, McNamara, Tanser, Bryson, McCann, Wotherspoon, Kane, May

Substitutes: Parish, Rooney, Booth, Craig, Davidson, Hendry, Melamed, Conway

Livingston: Stryjek, Devlin, Fitzwater, Guthrie, Serrano, Bartley, Sibbald, Forrest, Pittman, Mullin, Poplatnik

Substitutes: McCrorie, McMillan, Brown, Ambrose, Taylor-Sinclair, Holt, Robinson, Tiffoney, Emmanuel-Thomas

Scotland defender Jen Beattie has opened up to Football Focus about her breast cancer diagnosis.

Tyrone Smith
BBC Scotland at Pittodrie

After a bruising run of games on the road Aberdeen will be pleased to be back at Pittodrie this afternoon.

And, with three of their next four matches after this one also being away days, they know the importance of making home advantage count.

While recent results might not have gone as they would have wanted, the fourth-placed Dons have lost just one of their last nine games in the league, and three points against Ross County would see them keep the pressure on the two sides immediately above them: Hibs and Celtic.

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As for County, they haven’t won in the league since the middle of September, and currently find themselves precariously placed in second bottom spot.

However their shock League Cup win at Celtic a couple of weeks ago will give them the belief that they can produce another surprise result, this time in the Granite City.

Hibernian will jump up to second place in the Premiership, should they record a win today.

Jack Ross's side have won six of their nine away games in the league this season, including last weekend's 3-0 success at Fir Park.

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Another three points on the road would lift them above Celtic, at least overnight [Celtic host Kilmarnock on Sunday].

Hamilton have the worst home record in the top flight but have picked up on their own patch recently, drawing with Aberdeen and beating Kilmarnock in their last outings.

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Good afternoon and a warm welcome to our live text coverage of another busy day of Scottish football.

We have four Premiership festive crackers to enjoy - all with 3pm kick-offs - plus action across the Championship and Leagues One & Two.

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