Scottish Premiership: How does top-six race look with three games to go?


Kilmarnock’s late draw against Hibs just about keeps them in the hunt, but they need to make up seven points on Hearts with matches against St Mirren and Motherwell preceding a visit to Celtic Park.

Three points above them, St Mirren and County have more of a shot, with Opta putting their chances of sneaking into the top half at 9.5% and 4.3% respectively.

Buddies manager Stephen Robinson was left to rue Saturday’s match at Fir Park, where his side squandered a two-goal lead.

“Top six is still there, but if we don’t win games when we are 2-0 up, we won’t be in the top six,” he said.

“We go 2-0 up and we’re in total control, we don’t manage the next five minutes well at all and don’t clear the ball for the second goal.”

Meanwhile, County boss Don Cowie insisted he is taking it one match at a time when asked about his team’s top-six prospects.

“My only focus is Dundee United – the next game that we have in two weeks’ time,” he said.

“The message has been consistent. We just focus on ourselves and try to get as many points as possible – and that’s the next one for us.

“We’ve been in really good form since Boxing Day really. We thought it was an opportunity to continue that [against Hearts] and we didn’t manage to do it.”



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