Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Kilmarnock & Dundee United face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
This stadium has artifical turf, unlike Dundee United's home arena. The former seven games by the visitors on artifical turf have given 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.
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.
Kilmarnock form and stats
Last season, Kilmarnock's League Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.The home supporters can't complain about results here at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park as Kilmarnock have scored 28 goals to get 37 points from 18 games. The overall stats in the Championship are 12-1-5 (wins-draws-losses).
Kilmarnock travelled for their previous game, a trip to St. Mirren that ended 0-0. Goalkeeper Hemming got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.63 out of ten. Hemming topped it up with a clean sheet.
In the match before that, Kilmarnock hosted Hearts and drew the Premiership game 2-2.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Kilmarnock have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 2 and lost 1.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Kilmarnock, as the Premiership home game vs Ross County is only four days away.
Kilmarnock have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park with 28 goals in 18 league matches. From these home matches, Kilmarnock have conceded only 14 goals.
Dundee United form and stats
Dundee was sent out of League Cup in the quarter-finals last season.Dundee United are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Ross County. Attacker Middleton got a player rating of 7.6 in the game. "Man of the match" Middleton served one assist and hit two key passes.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Hibernian in the Premiership.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Dundee United in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dundee United, 6 draws and 1 defeat.
Dundee have another game away in just four nights, a Premiership fixture vs St. Mirren. A rough schedule for the guests!
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Kilmarnock won three, Dundee United were winners in four and we saw three draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Taylor 3 goals |  D. Armstrong 3 goals |   T. Watt 3 goals |
Kilmarnock missing players
Dundee United missing players
| Kilmarnock | Dundee United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 12 | ||
| 35 | 19 | Scored | S | 12 | 25 | ||
| 30 | 15 | Conceded | C | 23 | 49 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 32% | ||
| 5.2 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.5 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.5 | 14.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 9.5 | ||
| 3.4 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 3 | ||
| 38% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 33% | ||
| 10.7 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 14.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kilmarnock | 36 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 50 | 27 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 23 | 67 |
| 2 | Arbroath | 36 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 54 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 26 | 65 |
| 3 | Inverness CT | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 53 | 34 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 19 | 59 |
| 4 | Partick Thistle | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 46 | 40 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 27 | 6 | 52 |
| 5 | Raith Rovers | 36 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 50 |
| 6 | Hamilton Academical | 36 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 38 | 53 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 25 | -15 | 42 |
| 7 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 36 | 47 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 20 | -11 | 40 |
| 8 | Ayr United | 36 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 39 | 52 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 27 | -13 | 39 |
| 9 | Dunfermline Athletic | 36 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 36 | 53 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 29 | -17 | 35 |
| 10 | Queen of the South | 36 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 54 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 35 | -18 | 33 |
