Premiership duel: Close contest expected between Kilmarnock and Livingston

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: BBSP Stadium Rugby Park (18128 seats)

Crucial duel in the bottom part of the Premiership, with both Kilmarnock and Livingston suffering more angst than joy. This game is a classic "six-pointer" with the team playing at home at 10th and the visitors in 9th place.

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Premiership

Kilmarnock's stadium, BBSP 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 {11 goals} in these games and conceded 4.

Kilmarnock and Livingston should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Kilmarnock have to build on here at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park in the Premiership. When Kilmarnock hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Kilmarnock, Ross County and Dundee United), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

Kilmarnock are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus St. Johnstone. The first defeat after collecting points through four league matches.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Ross County in a game that was won 1-0.

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 6 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 2 and lost 1.

Kilmarnock has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Kilmarnock have conceded 10 from these games. Kilmarnock has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Livingston form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Livingston have produced an overall stat of 1-1-3 so far.

Livingston failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Celtic (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-3.

A 1-1 draw at Rangers's stadium before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Livingston in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Livingston, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

A new game in only four days for Livingston, the Premiership home match versus Aberdeen. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Livingston as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Livingston have conceded 9 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Kilmarnock and Livingston have faced off already this season: Livingston - Kilmarnock 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Kilmarnock victories, one draw and five Livingston wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

KilmarnockD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
4 goals
KilmarnockA. Taylor
A. Taylor
3 goals
LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
3 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

Livingston missing players

Kilmarnock Livingston
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 1 5 12
3 3 1 Won W 1 1 5
3 2 1 Drew D 0 1 1
7 1 0 Lost L 0 3 6
9 8 2 Scored S 1 3 9
20 10 1 Conceded C 0 9 16
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
54% 83% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 50%
38% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 42%
23% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 8%
15% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 8%
38% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 33%
15% 17% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 20% 33%
54% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 33%
 
5.1 5 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.2 3.7
5.1 5.2 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 7.8 6.3
2.5 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
11.2 14.2 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7 9.6
1.6 2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 1.4 2.2
43% 67% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 43% 33%
 
12.8 11.2 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.8 13.2
5.1 5.3 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kilmarnock have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Livingston have scored away.
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
  • Livingston 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 12 11 0 1 42 9 5 5 0 0 16 2 7 6 0 1 26 7 33 33
2 Rangers 12 9 2 1 31 11 7 6 1 0 21 3 5 3 1 1 10 8 20 29
3 Hibernian 13 6 2 5 17 16 7 4 2 1 12 6 6 2 0 4 5 10 1 20
4 Aberdeen 12 6 1 5 23 20 5 4 0 1 17 5 7 2 1 4 6 15 3 19
5 St. Mirren 12 6 1 5 12 17 7 5 1 1 8 3 5 1 0 4 4 14 -5 19
6 Hearts 12 5 2 5 20 21 5 3 0 2 12 12 7 2 2 3 8 9 -1 17
7 Motherwell 13 5 1 7 16 16 6 1 1 4 4 9 7 4 0 3 12 7 0 16
8 St. Johnstone 13 5 1 7 14 17 6 2 1 3 5 4 7 3 0 4 9 13 -3 16
9 Livingston 12 5 1 6 9 16 7 4 0 3 6 7 5 1 1 3 3 9 -7 16
10 Kilmarnock 13 3 3 7 9 20 6 3 2 1 8 10 7 0 1 6 1 10 -11 12
11 Dundee United 13 2 3 8 11 26 7 2 0 5 6 16 6 0 3 3 5 10 -15 9
12 Ross County 13 2 3 8 7 22 7 1 2 4 5 14 6 1 1 4 2 8 -15 9

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.