Mark Walker's Scottish Tips: All's 'Well That Ends... Aberdeen's Season?

MOTHERWELL can end effectively end Aberdeen's car crash of a season with a Scottish Cup win on Saturday at Fir Park.

Two of the most out-of-form teams meet in Lanarkshire with a place in the quarter-finals at stake.

Aberdeen won plenty of plaudits if not points with a gutsy defeat at home to Celtic, but it means they have now picked up one point from their last four games and are a lowly ninth in the table.

Well have been doing just as badly. They lost at Dundee United with former talisman Tony Watt doing the damage. They haven't won their last seven games in 90 minutes and are struggling.

But it's Aberdeen's dismal away record that could do for them. They are the second worst travellers in the league with only two away league wins all season and both were extremely fortunate after a blatant handball wasn't given against them at St Johnstone and the Livingston keeper threw one in at the start of the season.

They've lost at St Mirren twice, Dundee, Dundee United, Livingston and Raith Rovers this season and they have also lost home and away to Motherwell.

It's hard to see why Aberdeen are favourites here given they are four points and four places behind Well in the table and Graham Alexander's side has home advantage. The 9/5 could be real value.

PARTICK THISTLE could be best placed to create something of a shock at home to Dundee United at 7/4 – a price that has been backed this week.

Firhill is an absolute quagmire these days and it won't be pleasant for either set of players on Saturday. But Thistle have enjoyed a decent season and manager Ian McCall is working his magic again.

McCall – a former United boss – will get his men up for this and they seem to have coped with the loss of Zak Rudden not too badly. They were only denied a win at Inverness in midweek with a late loss of an equaliser.

United broke a three-game drought without a goal with a midweek win against Motherwell, but this will be a battle in Maryhill and the Jags could edge it.

MORTON have undergone a fine revival under Dougie Imrie and they can pile on the misery to struggling Queen of the South at 11/10 at Cappielow.

Ton are unbeaten over 90 minutes in six games and have beaten Dunfermline, Ayr United and Inverness in that time and look solid against a South side who have had one league win since October.