Kilmarnock have travelled here for an absorbing battle versus the hosting Motherwell. Get ready for the game with this in-depth Premiership preview!
Motherwell's stadium, Fir Park, has a grass surface. Kilmarnock have artifical turf 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 Kilmarnock when playing on grass; 11 wins, 6 draws and 21 losses from 38 matches. They have scored {32 goals} in these games and conceded 51.
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.
Motherwell form and stats
1-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Motherwell so far this season.
The followers hope that Motherwell will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away defeat in the League Cup fixture against St. Mirren.
Previous to that game, a Premiership home match hosting Hibernian in a game that was won 2-1.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 Motherwell have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 8, drawn 1 and lost 3.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Motherwell at home in the league. 2 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Kilmarnock form and stats
One match played away so far in the Premiership for Kilmarnock and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 8 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses from 18 games.
207 minutes! That's how long the Kilmarnock goalkeeper Will Dennis and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
The supporters enjoyed Kilmarnock's previous fixture versus Celtic, a League Cup win (1-0) played at home.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Hearts.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Kilmarnock in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Kilmarnock, 0 draws and 6 defeats.
It's early days yet, but Kilmarnock has scored 0 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between these participants: Motherwell won five, Kilmarnock triumphed in three and we saw two draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Wilkinson 1 goals |  T. Bair 1 goals |  M. Bieveth 1 goals |
Motherwell missing players
Kilmarnock missing players
| Motherwell | Kilmarnock | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 8.5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5 | 3.5 |
| 4.5 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 1.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.5 | 10 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 13 | 11.5 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 10.5 | 4 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8 | 13 |
| 1.5 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1 | 2.5 |
