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Premiership · Saturday 21 November · 15:00 · Rugby Park

Kilmarnock v Aberdeen

Kilmarnock

12th · 9 pts

Last five league games, oldest first

LRAN1-3 a
WMOT3-2 h
LFAL0-3 a
LDEE1-3 a
DSJO2-2 h

4 pts from 15 · scored 7, conceded 13

Aberdeen

11th · 11 pts

Last five league games, oldest first

LSJO0-1 h
WSMI3-1 h
LDDU2-3 a
LFAL0-1 h
LHIB0-4 h

3 pts from 15 · scored 5, conceded 10

Killie host the Dons at Rugby Park bottom of the table, with one win from their last five league games. Aberdeen have taken three points from the last five, and sit six points behind sixth-placed Dundee United.

Last meeting Aberdeen 0-0 Kilmarnock, Pittodrie, 5 September

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	12	+17	28
2	Rangers	12	+12	27
3	Hearts	11	+7	20
4	Falkirk	12	+3	18
5	Dundee	12	+3	17
6	Dundee United	12	0	17
7	St Johnstone	13	-3	17
8	St Mirren	13	-10	14
9	Motherwell	13	-6	13
10	Hibernian	12	-2	11
11	Aberdeen	12	-6	11
12	Kilmarnock	12	-15	9

The line marks the top six.

Fixture, form and table: Sofascore. Correct as of 8 November.

The season so far

11 points from 12 games (3 won, 2 drawn, 7 lost). The chances both sides created would usually be worth about 14 points to the Dons.
Aberdeen have scored 12 from chances worth 15.3 xG, about three fewer than those chances would usually produce. At the other end, 18 conceded from 19.5 xG against, about two fewer than expected.
At Pittodrie there's been little to choose between us and the opposition (1.53 xG a game to 1.58). Away from home it's 0.91 to 1.70, a bigger gap.
After 12 games the Dons have 11 points. Over the last ten seasons, the side sitting sixth after 12 games averaged 16. Sixth place at the split has averaged 43 points, so the Dons need 32 from the last 21 games before the split: 1.52 a game, against 0.92 so far.
Set plays and penalties account for 46% of Aberdeen's xG. Fast breaks have brought 1.3 xG for and 3.3 against.
Nisbet has 4 goals from 6.4 xG and 3 assists.

Race for the top six

Where we are against what it has taken to be in the top six when the league splits after 33 games.

Our points against the usual top-six pace

Grey: the average points of the side sitting sixth after each game, over the last ten seasons. Red: our points. Dotted red: where the current rate of points would take us by the split.

AberdeenSixth place, ten-season average

Sixth place by game: ABZ calculation from every Premiership result 2015/16 to 2025/26 (football-data.co.uk), leaving out 2019/20, which had no split, and 2024/25, where the results file is incomplete.

Sixth and seventh at the split, season by season

Points after 33 games. 2024/25 from published tables; the rest calculated from results.

Results

Every league game. Open a match for the full breakdown.

Scores and xG: Sofascore. Expected points: ABZ calculation from Sofascore shot xG.

Chances, game by game

Expected goals for (red, above the line) and against (blue, below).

xG forxG againstLines: five-game average

xG: Sofascore.

Every shot this season

All of our league shots from the match reports in one place, with us attacking upwards. Pick a player or a game to narrow it down.

Player Game

Tap a type above to hide or show it. Tap a shot for the details.

Shot positions: WhoScored (Opta). Outcomes and xG: Sofascore. On target includes goals and shots cleared off the line; off target includes the woodwork. The xG here adds up every shot, so it can be a little higher than the season total, where Sofascore counts some rebounds as part of the same chance.

Shots by player

Points and expected points

Points won, against the points the chances would usually earn.

PointsExpected points

ABZ calculation from Sofascore shot xG.

Where the chances come from

Season xG by type of attack. Ours on the left, the opposition's on the right.

xG and attack type: Sofascore.

Pressing

PPDA in each game: opposition passes allowed for each defensive action. Lower means we pressed harder.

ABZ calculation from WhoScored events. Games without a WhoScored file are left blank.

Home and away

Per-game averages. xG: Sofascore.

Dons players

League games this season. Tap a column heading to sort.

Data: Sofascore. xG from Sofascore shot data; per-90 figures from 270 minutes. Rating: Sofascore, weighted by minutes.

How the numbers work

Expected goals (xG): The quality of each chance: how often an average player would score it, from 0 to 1. Add a side's shots together and you get its xG.
Expected points: How many points a side would usually take from the chances both teams created in that game.
PPDA: Opposition passes in their own 60% of the pitch for each tackle, interception, challenge or foul we make there. Lower means more pressing.
xG + xA per 90: Expected goals plus expected assists (the xG of the shots a player sets up), per 90 minutes.
Sources: Sofascore (Opta) for xG, scores and player numbers. WhoScored (Opta) event data for pressing and the match pages.