Venue: Fir Park, Motherwell Motherwell have no fresh injuries so are likely to be unchanged. Defender Steven Saunders is unlikely to return to first-team action until early in the New Year following surgery. Aberdeen's Andrew Considine has recovered from a virus, Jamie Langfield is free of suspension, while Jonny Hayes, Stephen Hughes and Ryan Fraser could return from injury. But Ryan Jack, Rob Milsom, Chris Clark, Gary Naysmith and Isaac Osbourne are still sidelined through injury. Motherwell manager Stuart McCall: "We've now got two home games back-to-back and we need to look to put some points on the board. Aberdeen obviously had a good result at the weekend and came down here and knocked us out the cup. They have such a strong squad and have threats from all over the park. But I think we are more than capable of giving anyone a game on our day. We just want to extend the gap between us and them, it's at three points at the minute. If someone had given me that at the beginning of the season that we would come into Boxing Day three points ahead, I would have snapped their hands off. Because I think they've certainly strengthened more than anyone else in this division. Aberdeen manager Craig Brown: "We would like to do the double over Motherwell, obviously. It would give us a great platform for the remaining league fixtures if we managed to pull back the three-point gap. Remember last year we beat them in the cup and then we lost 1-0 to a rather fortunate long-range shot from Stevie Hammell in the league. Obviously we don't want a repeat of the last experience, although in the league you can recover and in the cup you can't, so we would rather win in the cup. But we are getting a bit selfish now and would like to win both.