Kilmarnock will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Aberdeen.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Scottish Cup. That game was also an away game, at St. Mirren. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
8 - 1 - 0 with 20-7. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Aberdeen when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Aberdeen play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Kilmarnock form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for Kilmarnock at their home stadium (Rugby Park) is 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats.
Kilmarnock lost their last game at Celtic (placed 1st) after a 1-3 scoreline. Preceding that match was a Scottish Cup defeat to Aberdeen (after extra-time) (3-4).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Kilmarnock as they are travelling to their away game against Hamilton Academical in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
The Kilmarnock fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 18 in 14 matches. From these home matches, Kilmarnock have conceded only 13 goals.
Aberdeen form and stats
The visitors are W5-D5-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Aberdeen play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting St. Mirren (placed 10th). A loss against Ross County was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.
After this away game Aberdeen return home for a Premiership game against Hibernian. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Aberdeen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 14 league away games 15 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Aberdeen have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Aberdeen - Kilmarnock 3-0 entered in the official records. Kilmarnock-Aberdeen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Kilmarnock one win, Aberdeen five wins, four draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
 S. Cosgrove 11 goals |  E. Brophy 8 goals |  C. Burke 6 goals |
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| Kilmarnock | Aberdeen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 14 | 28 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 29 | 18 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 15 | 35 |
| 38 | 13 | 7 | Conceded | C | 4 | 15 | 33 |
| 89% | 79% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 79% | 89% |
| 64% | 64% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 64% | 71% |
| 57% | 57% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 54% |
| 25% | 21% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 21% | 21% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 7% | 7% |
| 46% | 50% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | 46% |
| 29% | 43% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 43% | 32% |
| 36% | 29% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 43% | 32% |
| 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 5.5 | 4.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 225 | 128 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 34 | 135 | 260 |
| 85 | 47 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 53 | 102 |
| 34% | 38% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 28% | 34% |
| 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 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 10 | 65 | 76 |
| 2 | Rangers | 27 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 63 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 45 | 64 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 28 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 36 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 42 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 33 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 41 |
| 5 | Livingston | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 36 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 22 | 30 | 3 | 38 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 29 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 24 | -5 | 37 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 29 | 38 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 25 | -9 | 32 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 27 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 27 | 46 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 20 | -19 | 32 |
| 9 | Ross County | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 55 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 33 | -27 | 29 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 23 | -13 | 25 |
| 11 | Hearts | 28 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 50 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 28 | -20 | 22 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 28 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 50 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 24 | -22 | 21 |
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