Kilmarnock look to Rugby Park supporters for inspiration before Livingston match

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 21.Oct
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rugby Park (17889 seats)

Kilmarnock are believing in their home advantage to assist them in this fixture against Livingston. Who will win at Rugby Park?

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • Livingston have the most conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premiership

Kilmarnock's stadium, Rugby Park, has a artifical turf surface. Livingston have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Livingston when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss from five matches. They have scored {13 goals} in these games and conceded 6.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Kilmarnock form and stats

1-2-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Kilmarnock so far this season. Kilmarnock have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Kilmarnock are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus Celtic. The first defeat after going unbeaten through three league fixtures. Dennis had a busy but productive day in the Celtic match. Despite making nine saves the loss could not be prevented.

In the match before that, Kilmarnock hosted St. Mirren and drew the game 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Kilmarnock handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Kilmarnock has scored {4 goals-1} so far and conceded {4 goals-2} from 4 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Livingston form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Livingston have produced an overall stat of 1-2-1 so far. Livingston has drawn their two previous away games.

Livingston go into this game after a win, the home game against Motherwell that ended 2-0. That victory felt sweet as this side had gone four league rounds without victory. Defender Kelly was the best team player with a rating of 8.12. Kelly scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 5 of 8 duels.

Before that, Livingston travelled to St. Johnstone and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

We have checked recent matches where Livingston have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were 3 victories, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

Livingston are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league).

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings featuring these squads: Kilmarnock won three, Livingston were winners in seven and we saw zero draws. six games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
3 goals
KilmarnockB. Lyons
B. Lyons
2 goals
KilmarnockD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
2 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

Livingston missing players

Kilmarnock Livingston
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 2 4 8
1 1 0 Won W 0 1 2
4 2 1 Drew D 2 2 4
3 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
8 4 2 Scored S 2 5 8
11 4 2 Conceded C 2 8 12
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
62% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 88%
50% 25% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 38%
38% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 12%
62% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 50%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
25% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 38%
 
5.8 6.8 4 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.8 3.6
5.2 5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 6.2 5.4
2.4 1.8 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.5 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.4 13.2 16 Shots (avg) S ( 6 6.5 9.6
3.2 3.5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.8 2.8
31% 29% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 45% 36%
 
12.9 11.2 11 Shots against (avg) S A 14 15.8 12.4
4.8 3.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 4.8 4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Livingston's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Kilmarnock is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Livingston have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Livingston have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • Livingston have the most conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premiership
  • Livingston have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 8 7 1 0 19 5 4 3 1 0 10 3 4 4 0 0 9 2 14 22
2 Rangers 8 5 0 3 13 5 4 2 0 2 6 4 4 3 0 1 7 1 8 15
3 St. Mirren 8 4 3 1 11 10 4 2 1 1 5 6 4 2 2 0 6 4 1 15
4 Hearts 8 3 2 3 7 5 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 2 0 2 3 2 2 11
5 Motherwell 8 3 1 4 7 9 4 2 0 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 2 4 -2 10
6 Livingston 8 2 4 2 8 12 4 1 2 1 3 4 4 1 2 1 5 8 -4 10
7 Hibernian 8 2 3 3 13 12 4 1 1 2 6 6 4 1 2 1 7 6 1 9
8 Aberdeen 8 2 3 3 10 10 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 9
9 Kilmarnock 8 1 4 3 8 11 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 0 2 2 4 7 -3 7
10 Dundee 7 1 4 2 7 10 3 1 2 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 7
11 Ross County 7 2 1 4 6 12 4 1 1 2 3 4 3 1 0 2 3 8 -6 7
12 St. Johnstone 8 0 4 4 3 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 4 0 2 2 0 4 -8 4

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.