Evenly matched teams: Kilmarnock vs St. Mirren match preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 30.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: BBSP Stadium Rugby Park (18128 seats)

Flashy St. Mirren visit Kilmarnock after their 2-4-result versus Hibernian. Check out our comprehensive preview!

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

Overall Premiership results at home this season for Kilmarnock are 1-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Kilmarnock's previous game was also a home event, the loss 1-2 versus Hearts (in League Cup).

2-2 away at Dundee before that.

This is expected to be a close game, with Kilmarnock perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Kilmarnock as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Kilmarnock has won 3 of these, drawn 3 and lost 3.

Early season league goal statistics from Kilmarnock's 3 home games: {3 goals}, 3 conceded.

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St. Mirren form and stats

The seven points St. Mirren have gathered from their first three away trips in the Premiership is impressive and could lead to great things if the form continues.

Mirren have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Zachary Hemming. It's been 181 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.

Two away games in a row for St. Mirren, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-4 vs Hibernian in the League Cup.

Before that, Mirren secured a home win against Hearts with the score 1-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with St. Mirren playing away and similar expectations, we found 9 relevant matches. Results were 4 St. Mirren wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

St. Mirren has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games.

Head 2 Head

Kilmarnock have won at least one point in the last 5 games (1-4-0) versus St. Mirren.

Top Goalscorers

KilmarnockD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
2 goals
KilmarnockB. Lyons
B. Lyons
1 goals
KilmarnockJ. Wright
J. Wright
1 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Kilmarnock St. Mirren
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 3 6
1 1 1 Won W 1 2 4
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 1 0 Lost L 0 0 0
6 3 1 Scored S 3 5 10
7 3 0 Conceded C 2 3 6
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
50% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 50%
33% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 17%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 67%
33% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 33%
33% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.3 6.7 2 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4 4
4.2 4.7 8 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.3 5
2.5 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.8 13.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.3 11
3.8 4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.7 4
26% 25% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 45% 42%
 
11.3 12.3 18 Shots against (avg) S A 14 15.7 11.5
3.8 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.3 4.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their matches so far.
  • St. Mirren haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 6 5 1 0 14 3 3 2 1 0 7 2 3 3 0 0 7 1 11 16
2 St. Mirren 6 4 2 0 10 6 3 2 1 0 5 3 3 2 1 0 5 3 4 14
3 Rangers 6 4 0 2 9 2 3 2 0 1 5 1 3 2 0 1 4 1 7 12
4 Motherwell 6 3 1 2 6 5 3 2 0 1 4 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 10
5 Hibernian 6 2 1 3 11 10 3 1 0 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 7
6 Hearts 6 2 1 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 2 2 1 7
7 Ross County 6 2 1 3 6 11 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 0 2 3 8 -5 7
8 Kilmarnock 6 1 3 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 2 1 3 4 -1 6
9 Dundee 6 1 3 2 7 10 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 0 1 2 3 7 -3 6
10 Livingston 6 1 3 2 5 11 3 0 2 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 4 7 -6 6
11 Aberdeen 6 1 2 3 7 9 3 1 0 2 5 5 3 0 2 1 2 4 -2 5
12 St. Johnstone 6 0 2 4 2 10 3 0 1 2 2 6 3 0 1 2 0 4 -8 2

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.