Premiership fixture sneak peek: Livingston versus Kilmarnock

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Premiership: What this fixture might lack in glamour it should pay back in energy and enthusiasm. Get ready for Livingston - Kilmarnock!

Insights:
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Kilmarnock have the most points from losing position (4) in Premiership

9 - 4 - 19 with 25-38. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Kilmarnock when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Kilmarnock play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Premiership. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.

The Livingston followers enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Hearts and win 1-0. Defender Montano got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.8/10. Montano scored one goal, hit five key passes and won 10 of 15 duels.

Preceding that game, a home defeat in the League Cup against Dundee United. 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 4 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Livingston has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

It's not happening yet for Kilmarnock on their Premiership travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different?

Two away games in a row for Kilmarnock, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Hibernian. Kilmarnock goalie Walker took pride in a great day's work against Hibernian, but despite managing seven saves the loss could not be avoided.

Before that, the League Cup victory away at Hearts. We have checked recent matches where Kilmarnock have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 2 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats.

As opposed to that, Kilmarnock have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head to head numbers (for the prior ten meetings): Livingston won four games, one match ended in a draw and Kilmarnock have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.

Top Goalscorers

LivingstonC. Montaño Castillo
C. Montaño Castillo
2 goals
LivingstonJ. Nouble
J. Nouble
2 goals
KilmarnockA. Taylor
A. Taylor
2 goals

Livingston missing players

Kilmarnock missing players

Livingston Kilmarnock
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 1 3 6
3 2 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
3 1 0 Lost L 1 3 4
5 4 0 Scored S 0 0 3
9 3 0 Conceded C 1 4 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 33% 67%
50% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 33%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 17%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
33% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
33% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 67%
 
2.3 2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.3 4.5
7.3 8.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.3 5.3
2.8 2.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 4.3 3.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
8.2 9.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 7 9 13
2.2 3.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 0.7 1.5
38% 40% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 33%
 
15.3 16 0 Shots against (avg) S A 24 16.7 13.7
4 4.3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 10 6.7 6.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kilmarnock have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Kilmarnock have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Kilmarnock have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the most points from losing position (4) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • 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 6 6 0 0 25 1 3 3 0 0 8 0 3 3 0 0 17 1 24 18
2 Rangers 6 4 1 1 14 7 3 3 0 0 10 0 3 1 1 1 4 7 7 13
3 Aberdeen 6 3 1 2 13 7 3 2 0 1 11 4 3 1 1 1 2 3 6 10
4 Hearts 6 3 1 2 10 8 3 3 0 0 9 4 3 0 1 2 1 4 2 10
5 Motherwell 6 3 1 2 7 6 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 0 1 5 4 1 10
6 St. Mirren 6 3 0 3 6 8 3 2 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 4 7 -2 9
7 Livingston 6 3 0 3 5 9 3 2 0 1 4 3 3 1 0 2 1 6 -4 9
8 Hibernian 6 2 2 2 6 6 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 1 0 2 2 3 0 8
9 St. Johnstone 6 2 0 4 7 10 3 1 0 2 3 2 3 1 0 2 4 8 -3 6
10 Ross County 6 1 1 4 4 11 3 1 1 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 1 7 -7 4
11 Kilmarnock 6 1 1 4 3 11 3 1 1 1 3 7 3 0 0 3 0 4 -8 4
12 Dundee United 6 0 2 4 2 18 3 0 0 3 0 13 3 0 2 1 2 5 -16 2

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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.