Premiership preview: Can Kilmarnock edge out victory against St. Mirren?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 12.May
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: BBSP Stadium Rugby Park (18128 seats)

This promises to be another interesting encounter at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park in the Premiership. Kilmarnock is in 11th position and welcome St. Mirren in 7th place. Read all about the match here!

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Scottish Cup game only three days ago.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

Last season, Kilmarnock's league statistics were 9 wins, 6 draws and 15 losses, resulting in a 8th position in the Premiership. Over these 30 matches they scored 31 goals and conceded 41. Playing at home last season Kilmarnock managed 6-5-4 (win-draw-lost) with 20 goals and 15 conceded.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Kilmarnock handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, three draws and zero defeats.

Kilmarnock are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Hamilton Academical awaits in four days.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Let's have a look at how St. Mirren performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 9th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 8 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 24 and conceded 41 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 2 and lost 11 with 11/28 goals scored/conceded.

We have checked recent matches where St. Mirren have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 17 games were three victories, six draws and eight defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Mirren are hosting Dundee United in the Premiership only four days away.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; St. Mirren - Kilmarnock 2-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Kilmarnock won five games, three matches ended with a draw and St. Mirren has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven

Top Goalscorers

KilmarnockC. Burke
C. Burke
9 goals
St. MirrenJ. McGrath
J. McGrath
9 goals
KilmarnockK. Lafferty
K. Lafferty
6 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Kilmarnock St. Mirren
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
36 18 0 Played P 0 18 36
9 6 0 Won W 0 7 11
5 4 0 Drew D 0 3 10
22 8 0 Lost L 0 8 15
38 27 0 Scored S 0 19 34
51 24 0 Conceded C 0 19 42
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 94% 92%
75% 83% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 56% 64%
39% 56% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 39% 36%
25% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 11% 11%
8% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 6%
39% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 39% 44%
14% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 28% 28%
47% 28% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 39% 36%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.6 1.7
6 4 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
9.4 10.9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.5 11
3.1 4.1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.6 3.4
34% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 28%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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.