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Scottish Premiership | Gameweek 28
Feb 23, 2020 at 3pm UK
 
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Alex Dyer urges Kilmarnock to keep pushing ahead of league split

Alex Dyer urges Kilmarnock to keep pushing ahead of league split
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Killie head to Celtic on Sunday sitting four points behind sixth-placed Hibs with six games left before the top-flight split.

Kilmarnock's Hampden hopes were ended by Aberdeen in midweek but Alex Dyer has told his players they still have six cup finals left to play.

Killie suffered an extra-time collapse as they missed out on the William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-finals with a crushing 4-3 defeat to the Dons.

Now attention turns back to Ladbrokes Premiership duty and Dyer hopes to soothe the pain of their cup exit by picking up points at Parkhead on Sunday.

Under Steve Clark, the Rugby Park outfit registered back-to-back top-six finishes and the Scotland number two hopes to make it a hat-trick this term.

Kilmarnock sit four points behind sixth-placed Hibs with six games left before the top-flight split and Dyer says his side should be fired up as they prepare to take on table-topping Celtic.

He said: "The motivation is the players are going up against the best side in the country and one of the best clubs in the world.

"So we don't need much more motivation than that. They just need to dust themselves down after Wednesday and go again.

"It's important we get a result at Parkhead. We want to pick up as many points as we can between now and the cut-off and get back in that top six.

"We've got to do whatever it takes. We've got some big games coming up, not just the Celtic game. Every game now is going to be our cup final because we want to get into that top six."

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TeamPWDLFAGDPTS
Championship Group
1Celtic220085275884
2RangersRangers220078255381
3Hearts20114637963
4Kilmarnock20114438652
5St Mirren21014246-446
6Dundee20024659-1341
Relegation Group
1Hibernian21014854-642
2Aberdeen22003749-1241
3Motherwell21015053-340
4Ross County21013459-2533
5St Johnstone20022550-2531
RLivingston21012563-3821
 
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1Celtic33246380265478
2RangersRangers33243672234975
3Hearts33195946341262
4Kilmarnock33131284334951
5St Mirren33127143843-543
6Dundee331011124454-1041
7Hibernian33912124451-739
8Motherwell33813124651-537
9Aberdeen33811143549-1435
10St Johnstone33710162446-2231
11Ross County3379173256-2430
RLivingston3339212259-3718


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