Hibernian vs Kilmarnock match preview

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership. That game was an away game at St. Mirren, so at least Hibernian are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Kilmarnock have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 17-14-9 (win-draw-loss) from 40 matches.

Hibernian form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, Hibernian have managed 2 wins, 4 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 7 games.

Happy days for Hibernian in their previous game, a Premiership match away at St. Mirren (placed 10th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Motherwell in a game that was won 3-1.

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 Hibernian have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won 1 Drawn 3 Lost 1.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hibernian as they are travelling to their away game against Ross County in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.

Hibernian have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Easter Road with 12 goals in 7 league matches. Hibernian's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Kilmarnock form and stats

There's been little loot from Kilmarnock's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the Premiership. Kilmarnock only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 0 draws. Kilmarnock has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Kilmarnock are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the Premiership against Hearts (placed 9th). A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Hamilton Academical.

Kilmarnock delivered their win in the match against Hearts already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the three points. Solid performance!

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Kilmarnock playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were 2 Kilmarnock wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

After this away game Kilmarnock return home for a Premiership game against St. Johnstone. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kilmarnock as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Kilmarnock have conceded 10 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Kilmarnock - Hibernian 2-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for Hibernian, 4 draws and 3 wins for Kilmarnock. Over 2,5 goals: 5 times; under 2,5 goals: 5 games.

Top Goalscorers

C. Doidge 5 goals

S. Allan 4 goals

D. Horgan 3 goals

Hibernian missing players

Kilmarnock missing players