{"id":41762,"date":"2025-11-22T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/whats-going-wrong-for-kilmarnock-and-kettlewell\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:14:04","slug":"whats-going-wrong-for-kilmarnock-and-kettlewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/whats-going-wrong-for-kilmarnock-and-kettlewell\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s going wrong for Kilmarnock and Kettlewell?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kettlewell has not shied away from the fact that his side are conceding poor goals but that cannot all be down to a change in goalkeeper. <\/p>\n

Stamatelopoulos’ penalty was the fifth spot-kick Kilmarnock have conceded this term – no other top-flight team has conceded more. <\/p>\n

Not only that, but they have also lost five goals to opposition substitutes, a number only St Mirren (six) and Livingston (six) have beaten. <\/p>\n

What’s more, Kilmarnock have conceded 12 first-half goals in 13 games, the worst of any team in the division.<\/p>\n

“We’re conceding really cheap, silly, naive goals,” Kettlewell said. “It starts to become psychological. <\/p>\n

“The bottom line is for whatever reason we’ve been spooked and started conceding goals in a fashion that wasn’t there for long enough. <\/p>\n

“We are trying to find ways to galvanise players, to pick them up, so that that mentality is stronger. That seems to be the defining factor at the moment.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Kettlewell has not shied away from the fact that his side are conceding poor goals but that cannot all be down to a change in goalkeeper. Stamatelopoulos’ penalty was the fifth spot-kick Kilmarnock have conceded this term – no other top-flight team has conceded more. Not only that, but they have also lost five goals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[12758,1945,645,696],"class_list":["post-41762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-kettlewell","tag-kilmarnock","tag-whats","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41764,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762\/revisions\/41764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}