Kilmarnock vs Dundee Utd — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 29 August 2026

Scottish Premiership·Saturday, 29 August 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · under an hour before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Kilmarnock

38%

top pick

Draw

26%

Dundee Utd

37%

result

Final score

0–4

Top pick missed

Metis gave a Dundee Utd win 36.6% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Kilmarnock win. Expected goals 1.41–1.36 against 0–4 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals52%4 scored
Both teams score56%no
Kilmarnock clean sheet26%no
Dundee Utd clean sheet25%yes
Kilmarnock score 2+41%no
Dundee Utd score 2+40%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2723
1X2 Brier score0.6102
Probability on the result36.6%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (12.2%), 1–2 (8.7%), 2–1 (8.3%). It finished 0–4.

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Kilmarnock

2 AugAvs St Johnstone3–4L
9 AugHvs Celtic1–5L
29 AugHvs Dundee Utd0–4L
2 SeptHvs St Mirren0–1L
5 SeptAvs Aberdeen0–0D

Dundee Utd

31 JulHvs Rangers1–1D
9 AugAvs Hearts0–4L
22 AugHvs Dundee0–2L
29 AugAvs Kilmarnock4–0W
2 SeptAvs Motherwell0–3L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatKilmarnock
(Home · 4 matches)
Dundee Utd
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate50.0%0.0%
Over 2.5 rate50.0%100.0%
Clean sheet0.0%50.0%
Avg goals3.253.50

Home stats use Kilmarnock's home record; away stats use Dundee Utd's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.