Fasten your seatbelt before the show! The leading roles are Hearts and Celtic, 3 points is the target and 1 1/2 hours the length.
- Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Celtic have the most scored goals (19) in Premiership
This should be an engaging game with lots of spark and energy as both squads are well revitalized since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!
Hearts form and stats
Hearts have collected 5 points from their Premiership home games so far after 1-2-1.
Hearts drew their last game, also a home match. Hibernian (placed 7th) was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Opportunity lost for Hearts in the Hibernian match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Midfield player Forrest got a match rating of 7.62 in that game, the max score being 10. Forrest scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Ross County and winning 1-0.From these home matches, Hearts have conceded only 3 goals.
Celtic form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Hearts.
Hatate, Taylor and Palma scored in Celtic's previous match, the home game against Kilmarnock that ended 3-1. Midfield player Hatate was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.83/10. Hatate scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 62 successful passes (of 68 total).
The match before that was the Champions League-duel against Lazio, a home defeat (1-2).
A quick return to home after this game, as Celtic are hosting Atletico Madrid in the Champions League only three days away.
The Celtic manager Rodgers has got the team scoring on the road, with 9 away goals in 4 league matches. Celtic are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Celtic have been victorious in all of the 9 latest matches versus this opponent. Can they do it again?Furuhashi likes to face Hearts and have scored 7 goals in these matches.
Top Goalscorers
  M. O'Riley 5 goals |  K. Furuhashi 4 goals |  D. Turnbull 3 goals |
Hearts missing players
Celtic missing players
| Hearts | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 88% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 8.5 | 9.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 5.2 | 8 |
| 4.4 | 4.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.2 | 4 |
| 2.1 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14.2 | 15 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 15.2 | 18.1 |
| 4 | 2.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 7 | 8 |
| 22% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 32% | 30% |
| 11.5 | 12 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 13.2 | 9.4 |
| 3.8 | 4.2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most matches over the total-line (6) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most points (12) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (19) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (9) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+14) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+7) away in Premiership
- Celtic have won all their away games so far.
- Celtic have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Celtic is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership
- Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hearts have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celtic | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 22 |
| 2 | Rangers | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | St. Mirren | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | Hearts | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 6 | Livingston | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 7 | Hibernian | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Aberdeen | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Dundee | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 11 | Ross County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 12 | St. Johnstone | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -8 | 4 |
