Match Report
Partick Thistle (1st, 11 pts) visited Kilmarnock (2nd, 10 pts) with 1 points between them. On recent form Kilmarnock sat only 9th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Kilmarnock 2.75 scored and 1 conceded per game, Partick Thistle 2.5 and 1, with the league averaging 1.58.
Defeat had not touched Kilmarnock in 5 games, having scored in 13 consecutive games.
22 meetings are on record — 8 won by Kilmarnock, 4 by Partick Thistle, 10 drawn, at 2.73 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 18% of the meetings went to the host. Goals have dried up lately: 1.8 per game across the last five meetings, against 2.73 across the full history.
Rugby Park in Kilmarnock staged the fixture, a ground that holds 18,128. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.