Livingston vs Kilmarnock: Soccer match betting guide

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

The home followers bank on a victory in this fixture, and the home advantage should work against a stumbling visitor. Livingston are in 5th spot while the guesting Kilmarnock lose sleep at 9th.

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the the worst goal difference (-21) in Premiership

This football stadium uses the playing surface grass, unlike Kilmarnock's home arena. The latest 34 games by the guests on grass have produced 7 wins, 5 draws and 22 losses.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Livingston form and stats

5-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Livingston so far this season. Three draws in a row here at Tony Macaroni Arena for Livingston, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.

Penrice was the last player to score a league goal for Livingston and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Livingston haven't scored in 189 minutes.

Livingston are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-3 away versus Celtic. The first setback in the shape of a loss after going undefeated in five league rounds. The game against Celtic was basically lost in the first half (0-3) and the second half was more of a formality. The forward Anderson was announced as "man of the match" for Livingston with a rating of 6.82/10. Anderson hit the woodwork once.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Hearts.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Livingston handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

Livingston aren't scoring a lot here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, with only {10 goals} from 11 games. Livingston are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 11 matches.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kilmarnock so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-10 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in twelve away games in a row.

Kilmarnock won their last game, 1-0 versus Dundee United played at home. That win felt nice as this team had gone four league rounds without winning. Armstrong got a match rating of 8.12 in that game, top player of the team. Armstrong scored one goal and hit seven key passes.

A 0-3 defeat away at Ross County before that.

We have checked recent matches where Kilmarnock have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 4 games were 0 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Kilmarnock are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {4 goals} from 12 away games. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Livingston have won every one of the 4 most recent battles against this team. Can they do it again?

The sides have met each other before in this season, with the match result Kilmarnock - Livingston 2-3 written in the official records.

Top Goalscorers

KilmarnockD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
6 goals
LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
4 goals
LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
4 goals

Livingston missing players

Kilmarnock missing players

Livingston Kilmarnock
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 3 12 24
9 5 0 Won W 0 0 6
5 3 1 Drew D 0 2 5
9 3 1 Lost L 3 10 13
24 10 1 Scored S 1 4 20
33 10 2 Conceded C 6 24 41
96% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
70% 55% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 58% 62%
48% 36% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 42% 50%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 33%
13% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 8% 17%
48% 45% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 25% 42%
26% 36% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 21%
30% 27% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 75% 46%
 
3.6 4.1 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 4.2 4.3
6.5 5.4 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.1 4.9
2.1 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 2
5 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
9.7 10.2 16 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9.7 11.8
2.9 3.3 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 1.4 1.9
36% 28% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 24% 44%
 
15.2 13.8 10 Shots against (avg) S A 16.3 14.5 12.8
4.5 4 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 5.3 4.7
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest points (2) away in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the the worst goal difference (-21) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have yet to win a game away.
  • Livingston have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kilmarnock have scored away.
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in Premiership

  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 24 22 1 1 74 17 12 12 0 0 37 7 12 10 1 1 37 10 57 67
2 Rangers 24 18 4 2 56 22 12 10 2 0 32 7 12 8 2 2 24 15 34 58
3 Hearts 24 11 6 7 42 34 12 8 1 3 28 19 12 3 5 4 14 15 8 39
4 St. Mirren 23 9 6 8 26 32 12 7 4 1 16 8 11 2 2 7 10 24 -6 33
5 Livingston 23 9 5 9 24 33 11 5 3 3 10 10 12 4 2 6 14 23 -9 32
6 Hibernian 24 9 4 11 36 38 12 6 3 3 24 14 12 3 1 8 12 24 -2 31
7 Aberdeen 24 9 2 13 36 46 12 7 1 4 27 13 12 2 1 9 9 33 -10 29
8 St. Johnstone 24 8 3 13 28 38 11 3 2 6 12 14 13 5 1 7 16 24 -10 27
9 Kilmarnock 24 6 5 13 20 41 12 6 3 3 16 17 12 0 2 10 4 24 -21 23
10 Ross County 24 5 6 13 19 36 13 3 3 7 13 22 11 2 3 6 6 14 -17 21
11 Motherwell 23 5 5 13 26 35 11 1 3 7 10 19 12 4 2 6 16 16 -9 20
12 Dundee United 23 5 5 13 25 40 12 4 1 7 15 22 11 1 4 6 10 18 -15 20

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.