Betting preview: Motherwell vs Kilmarnock should be interesting

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Date: Wed 30.October
Match begins: 20:45 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

The managers S. Robinson and A. Alessio are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Premiership league table.

It's no vacation for neither Motherwell nor Kilmarnock as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Kilmarnock have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 17-15-8 (win-draw-loss) from 40 matches.

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Motherwell form and stats

Motherwell have collected 6 points from their Premiership home games so far after 2-0-3.

In their previous game, the manager S. Robinson led his Motherwell to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Rangers. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Fir Park. Preceding that match was the home game against Aberdeen that was lost 0-3.

This is expected to be a close game, with Motherwell perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Motherwell as a small favourite), we find nine games. Motherwell has won 5 of these, drawn 0 and lost 4.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Livingston are coming to town in three days.

Motherwell have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Fir Park with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Motherwell are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (10 from 5 played).

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Kilmarnock form and stats

The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Premiership, are W2-D0-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.

Kilmarnock are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Premiership against St. Mirren (placed 10th). A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Livingston.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Kilmarnock in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Kilmarnock, 4 draws and 0 defeats.

The schedule is very tough for Kilmarnock now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Premiership game at Aberdeen is waiting in only three days.

The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Kilmarnock have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 4 wins for Motherwell, 2 draws and 4 wins for Kilmarnock. Over 2,5 goals: 4 times; under 2,5 goals: 6 games.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellL. Donnelly
L. Donnelly
4 goals
MotherwellJ. Hylton
J. Hylton
2 goals
MotherwellC. Long
C. Long
2 goals

Motherwell missing players

Kilmarnock missing players

Motherwell Kilmarnock
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs top Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 4 10
5 2 0 Won W 0 2 5
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
4 3 1 Lost L 1 2 3
16 8 2 Scored S 1 3 9
15 10 5 Conceded C 3 5 8
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 80%
80% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 50%
70% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 25% 30%
30% 20% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 10%
20% 20% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 25% 30%
40% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 60%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 30%
 
5 4.2 5 Corners For (avg) C F 4 6.5 4
4.5 5.2 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 4 3.9
2.4 2.2 5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 2 1.5
2 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • All of Motherwell's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kilmarnock have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Motherwell have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kilmarnock have scored away.
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Motherwell
All Premiership League Cup Scottish Cup
All Home Away Home vs top
21-09-19 PR Motherwell 1 - 2 Ross County
28-09-19 PR St. Johnstone 0 - 1 Motherwell
05-10-19 PR Motherwell 2 - 0 St. Mirren
19-10-19 PR Motherwell 0 - 3 Aberdeen
27-10-19 PR Rangers 2 - 1 Motherwell
30-10-19 PR Motherwell 20:45 Kilmarnock
02-11-19 PR Motherwell 16:00 Livingston
10-11-19 PR Celtic 16:00 Motherwell
23-11-19 PR Hibernian 16:00 Motherwell
30-11-19 PR Motherwell 16:00 St. Johnstone
Kilmarnock
All Premiership Europa League League Cup Scottish Cup
All Home Away Away vs top
25-09-19 LC Kilmarnock 0 - 0 Hibernian
28-09-19 PR Kilmarnock 0 - 0 Ross County
05-10-19 PR Hearts 0 - 1 Kilmarnock
19-10-19 PR Kilmarnock 2 - 1 Livingston
26-10-19 PR Kilmarnock 1 - 0 St. Mirren
30-10-19 PR Motherwell 20:45 Kilmarnock
02-11-19 PR Aberdeen 16:00 Kilmarnock
09-11-19 PR Kilmarnock 16:00 Hamilton Academical
23-11-19 PR Kilmarnock 16:00 Hearts
30-11-19 PR Hibernian 16:00 Kilmarnock

  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 10 8 1 1 32 7 4 4 0 0 19 2 6 4 1 1 13 5 25 25
2 Rangers 10 8 1 1 29 7 6 5 0 1 21 5 4 3 1 0 8 2 22 25
3 Kilmarnock 10 5 2 3 9 8 6 3 2 1 6 3 4 2 0 2 3 5 1 17
4 Motherwell 10 5 1 4 16 15 5 2 0 3 8 10 5 3 1 1 8 5 1 16
5 Aberdeen 10 4 3 3 13 14 5 2 2 1 8 8 5 2 1 2 5 6 -1 15
6 Ross County 10 3 4 3 12 19 4 2 1 1 8 7 6 1 3 2 4 12 -7 13
7 Livingston 10 3 3 4 13 13 5 2 2 1 4 3 5 1 1 3 9 10 0 12
8 Hamilton Academical 10 2 3 5 10 19 5 2 1 2 6 6 5 0 2 3 4 13 -9 9
9 Hearts 10 1 5 4 10 14 5 0 3 2 5 7 5 1 2 2 5 7 -4 8
10 St. Mirren 10 2 2 6 5 9 5 2 2 1 3 1 5 0 0 5 2 8 -4 8
11 Hibernian 10 1 5 4 10 20 5 1 3 1 7 7 5 0 2 3 3 13 -10 8
12 St. Johnstone 10 1 4 5 10 24 5 1 1 3 5 10 5 0 3 2 5 14 -14 7

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