Raith Rovers vs Kilmarnock Match Analysis and Prediction

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Fresh from winning the Championship and securing their spot in the Premiership next season Kilmarnock travel to Stark’s Park to take on playoff-hopefuls Raith Rovers in their final match of the season on Friday night with kickoff at 21:45.

Kilmarnock head into the match in a joyous mood after wrapping the title last week with euphoric scenes at Kilmarnock Football Club Shop as they came from a goal down to Arbroath to claim a 2-1 win last Friday, thanks to Taylor and Alston goals in the last 12 minutes of the clash.

Therefore Dereck Mclnnes’ side is pressure free and has nothing to play for in this clash. However, they will want to end the season on a high as they look forward to the next season in the top-tier.

Meanwhile Raith Rovers are hoping to finish the season in the playoffs and theoretically they still can make the playoffs, but that will mean that they need to crash Killie at least 9-0 on Saturday. Rovers sit three points off the fourth-placed Partick Thistle with but are eight goals worse off in goal-difference.

Also they will hope that Ayr United better Thistle, but it will take some effort for them to hammer Kilmarnock. They biggest win over Killie since 1995 is a 2-0 that came in in the 1995-96 season. However, stranger things have happened in football of course, but it’s a very big ask for Rovers, who have been left ruing a dismal run over December and January of one win in ten.

Raith Rovers vs Kilmarnock head to head

Both sides have met in 14 encounters since 1995 with Raith Rovers claiming eight victories while Kilmarnock have claimed five victories and there have been one draw.