Season ticket holders at The Simple Digital Arena haven’t seen too many victories this season, with St. Mirren languishing in the 9th position so far. The guesting Kilmarnock will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
St. Mirren and Kilmarnock should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
St. Mirren form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for St. Mirren at their home stadium (The Simple Digital Arena) is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Mirren with their four defeats in a row. Not since the Ross County game, 35 days ago, have they avoided a loss. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Mirren, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
Mirren are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Dundee United. Preceding that match was a defeat to Celtic (1-2).
Zdeněk Zlámal had a busy but productive day in the Dundee United match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented.
This is expected to be a close game, with Mirren perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Mirren as a small favourite), we find nine games. St. Mirren has won three of these, drawn four and lost two.
Mirren have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 6 goals have been conceded.
Kilmarnock form and stats
0-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kilmarnock in their Premiership matches away. Kilmarnock seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
The supporters enjoyed Kilmarnock's previous game versus Hamilton Academical (placed 10th), a Premiership 2-1 win played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Aberdeen wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
Kilmarnock made it very difficult for themselves in their last game, Eamonn Brophy receiving a red card in the 23rd minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, Kilmarnock won the match 2-1!
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: one win for Kilmarnock, one draw and four defeats.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Kilmarnock struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - one - seven (Mirren wins - draws - Kilmarnock wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.St. Mirren missing players
Kilmarnock missing players
| St. Mirren | Kilmarnock | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 88% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 80 | 39 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 27 | 71 |
| 27 | 13 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 6 | 26 |
| 19% | 23% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 42% |
- Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Kilmarnock have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Kilmarnock have scored more than double the goals of St. Mirren.
- Kilmarnock have yet to win a game away.
- Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Mirren have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- St. Mirren haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Mirren is in the worst form (1-1-4)
| 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 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 19 |
| 2 | Rangers | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 19 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Ross County | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -4 | 11 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 7 |
| 9 | St. Mirren | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 7 |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 11 | Motherwell | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 5 |
| 12 | Livingston | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 5 |