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Jimmy Thelin says his team "are ready" as he prepares to make his Scottish Premiership debut as Aberdeen manager when the first weekend of fixtures concludes with their trip to face St Johnstone.
While St Johnstone sneaked through to the last 16 of the Scottish League Cup despite a surprise defeat by League 1 side Alloa Athletic, the Swede's side won all four of their group games. "It’s a good indicator for me whether we’ve got most of our signings right or not. Aberdeen have always got a reasonably big budget and they're difficult to compete with."St Johnstone will be without forwards Uche Ikpeazu and Nicky Clark, plus left-back Andre Raymond, through injury.Aberdeen are minus midfielders Leighton Clarkson and Dante Polvara.
St. Johnstone are winless on MD1 in each of the previous six league seasons since a 2-1 win over Kilmarnock in 2017-18.
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