Kilmarnock vs Motherwell: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 20.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rugby Park (17889 seats)

Kilmarnock are welcoming Motherwell for another important game after their 2-3 result against 10th-placed Ross County.

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock is in the worst form (0-1-5)

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Motherwell's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Motherwell have performed like this: Played nine matches resulting in 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat with the goal stats 11-6 (scored/conceded).

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Kilmarnock form and stats

With 4 Premiership wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, Kilmarnock, who have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership, are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Kilmarnock who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Hamilton Academical, 70 days ago.

In their previous game, the manager T. Wright led his Kilmarnock to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Ross County. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Rugby Park. In the match before that, Kilmarnock hosted Dundee United and drew the game 1-1.

Kilmarnock has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 21 goals have been conceded.

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Motherwell form and stats

5-5-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Motherwell in their Premiership matches away.

Motherwell won their last game, 3-1 versus Livingston played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Hibernian.

The attacking power of Motherwell when travelling is not overwhelming with 15 goals scored from 16 league matches away. Motherwell have conceded 18 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Kilmarnock - Motherwell 0-1 played earlier this season. Kilmarnock-Motherwell H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Kilmarnock five wins, Motherwell four wins, one draw. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellD. Cole
D. Cole
8 goals
KilmarnockC. Burke
C. Burke
7 goals
KilmarnockN. Kabamba
N. Kabamba
5 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

Motherwell missing players

Kilmarnock Motherwell
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
32 15 3 Played P 3 16 32
7 4 3 Won W 1 5 9
4 3 0 Drew D 0 5 8
21 8 0 Lost L 2 6 15
29 18 7 Scored S 2 15 31
46 21 2 Conceded C 5 18 47
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 91%
72% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 72%
34% 47% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 38% 47%
22% 27% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 6% 22%
6% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
38% 53% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 41%
12% 13% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 28%
50% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 38% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.5 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.2 1.5
6 4 2 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
8.9 10.6 14.3 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 11.3 10.7
2.9 3.9 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.9 3
32% 31% 54% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 32% 32%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kilmarnock is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rangers 32 28 4 0 77 9 16 16 0 0 47 2 16 12 4 0 30 7 68 88
2 Celtic 32 20 8 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 16 9 5 2 35 13 42 68
3 Hibernian 31 15 7 9 41 29 16 6 5 5 19 19 15 9 2 4 22 10 12 52
4 Aberdeen 32 13 10 9 32 30 17 9 4 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 49
5 Livingston 31 11 7 13 37 39 15 5 3 7 16 18 16 6 4 6 21 21 -2 40
6 St. Mirren 32 10 9 13 29 37 17 4 7 6 14 21 15 6 2 7 15 16 -8 39
7 St. Johnstone 32 9 10 13 33 40 15 4 4 7 7 13 17 5 6 6 26 27 -7 37
8 Dundee United 32 8 12 12 28 43 16 5 5 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 36
9 Motherwell 32 9 8 15 31 47 16 4 3 9 16 29 16 5 5 6 15 18 -16 35
10 Ross County 31 8 5 18 25 56 16 4 4 8 15 29 15 4 1 10 10 27 -31 29
11 Hamilton Academical 31 6 8 17 29 57 15 2 5 8 12 24 16 4 3 9 17 33 -28 26
12 Kilmarnock 32 7 4 21 29 46 15 4 3 8 18 21 17 3 1 13 11 25 -17 25

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.