{"id":401007,"date":"2026-01-31T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:06:09","slug":"kilmarnock-vs-aberdeen-scottish-premiership-updates-match-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401007\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmarnock vs Aberdeen: Scottish Premiership updates &#038; match report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby Park has been a dark place this season. The home fans had just one victory &#8211; four months ago &#8211; to enjoy and watched seven defeats in their last eight on their own patch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result they would have been rubbing their eyes in disbelief after 16 minutes as the players swarmed around Aberdeen with ferocity and conviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Polworth had already missed a virtually open goal before captain Lyons glanced in Kiltie&#8217;s superb cross from the right to give them a deserved lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In keeping with their start, they gave Aberdeen no time to recover as they immediately pressed high and got the ball up to John-Jules, who laid it to Anderson to flash a low shot past goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John-Jules&#8217; slick first-time finish from Anderson&#8217;s low delivery showed the confidence Kilmarnock played with &#8211; as did his overhead kick effort shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCann hopes new faces in attack Findlay Curtis, on loan from Rangers, striker Joe Hugill, and winger Nicky Clescenco would inject energy and freshness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And though Curtis and Hugill made good debuts from the bench, it was the core squad who showed they still have plenty of life this season under new leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Park has been a dark place this season. The home fans had just one victory &#8211; four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-401007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}