The door has opened for Rangers in this season's Scottish Premiership title race as Celtic surprisingly slipped up at home to Motherwell.
It's now a question of whether Philippe Clement's men can take advantage of that stumble as they face an Aberdeen side who have big questions of their own to answer as they must show a reaction from a six-goal hammering at the hands of the Hoops before the international break.
Barry Robson and his dejected Dons players have had to stew on that mauling for a couple of weeks now and will want to put that behind them They have faced accusations this week that they find it easier to get up for games against the Light Blues, started by former Ibrox striker Kris Boyd in the aftermath of their Parkhead thrashing.Aberdeen's 3-1 win over Rangers on enemy territory back in September proved to be the end for Michael Beale as the axe fell on the Englishman 24 hours later.
But successor Clement has helped turn things around and it's likely the Dons will see a very different Rangers side at lunchtime in the north east.
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