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Football Bet of the Day: More back and forth in Scotland

  • Tobias Gourlay
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Scottish football fans
Kilmarnock v Motherwell is the pick of tonight's Scottish Premiership games

"Killie are five home matches without a clean sheet and we like the odds-against price on both teams to score in this one"

Back Both Teams to Score @ 2.186/5 in Kilmarnock v Motherwell

Tobias Gourlay thinks defences will have to endure a trying time at Rugby Park tonight

Kilmarnock v Motherwell
Wednesday 27 February

Bottom-of-Serie-B Padova held top-of-Serie-B Brescia to a 1-1 draw in Italy last night. For the league leaders, that made it 12/13 away games in which both teams have scored. We were along for the ride yesterday and, with numbers like that, we'd expect to be following them around the country again soon.

Today we're in Scotland for one of this evening's five Premiership games. Our pick is the match from Rugby Park, where fourth-placed Kilmarnock are even-money favourites to beat eighth-placed Motherwell. However, Killie are five home matches without a clean sheet and we like the odds-against price on both teams to score in this one.

Back in September, the hosts won this season's first running of this fixture 3-1. In total, Steve Clarke's men have now conceded at least once in 10/13 appearances at Rugby Park. Thank goodness they've scored in 11/13.

Steve Robinson's Motherwell have notched in nine of their most recent 13 on the road, including all of the last four. At the other end, they've only kept clean sheets against Dundee and St Mirren - two of the three teams now cut adrift at the bottom of the league. At 2.186/5 we're backing them to concede again, but also to score again, this evening.

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A Betfair regular since Euro 2008, Tobias covers every blade of grass in every league of the world to find our Football Bet of the Day.

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