Premiership duel: Close contest expected between St. Mirren and Hearts

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 23.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Smisa Stadium

St. Mirren receive Hearts for another engaging Premiership fixture here at The Smisa Stadium.

Insights:
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.
  • Hearts have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premiership

St. Mirren and Hearts should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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St. Mirren form and stats

Only two Premiership home games for St. Mirren so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

St. Mirren enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Motherwell's place. The match ended 1-0 with Tanser scoring. Hemming loved the game against Motherwell. With a stunning seven saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 1-0 victory. Goalkeeper Hemming got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.23 out of ten. Hemming topped it up with a clean sheet.

1-1 away at Livingston before that.

Mirren are traveling soon after this match as the League Cup match at Hibernian awaits in four days.

Early season league goal statistics from St. Mirren's 2 home games: {4 goals}, 3 conceded.

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Hearts form and stats

Hearts are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).

Hearts had fun at their own home (The Smisa Stadium) last time out, beating Aberdeen 2-0. Oda and Boyce scored. Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone three league games without victory. Midfielder Boyce was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.05. Boyce scored one goal, served one assist and hit two key passes.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Motherwell.

Considering a bet on a low-scoring game? 5 league fixtures in a row with this side have had at most two goals.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Hearts manager McAvoy as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Kilmarnock.

Hearts have the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

St. Mirren-Hearts H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mirren two wins, Hearts six wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these sides have sometimes been hot-tempered, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

HeartsY. Oda
Y. Oda
2 goals
St. MirrenG. Kiltie
G. Kiltie
1 goals
St. MirrenS. Tanser
S. Tanser
1 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Hearts missing players

St. Mirren Hearts
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 0 2 5
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 2
9 4 0 Scored S 0 2 4
6 3 0 Conceded C 0 1 2
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 80%
80% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 40%
60% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
80% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 60%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 60%
 
4 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8.5 9.6
4.4 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.5 4.4
2.4 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.6 14 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13 12.8
3.8 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 7 4
47% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 14% 20%
 
11.6 5.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 11 10.8
4.4 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3.5 4.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of St. Mirren's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Hearts have created more than twice as many corners as St. Mirren.
  • Hearts have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premiership
  • Hearts have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
  • Hearts have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their matches so far.
  • St. Mirren have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.
  • St. Mirren haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 5 4 1 0 11 3 3 2 1 0 7 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 8 13
2 St. Mirren 5 3 2 0 9 6 2 1 1 0 4 3 3 2 1 0 5 3 3 11
3 Motherwell 5 3 1 1 6 4 3 2 0 1 4 3 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 10
4 Rangers 5 3 0 2 8 2 2 1 0 1 4 1 3 2 0 1 4 1 6 9
5 Hearts 5 2 1 2 4 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 7
6 Ross County 5 2 1 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 7
7 Livingston 5 1 3 1 5 8 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 4 7 -3 6
8 Kilmarnock 5 1 2 2 4 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 5
9 Dundee 5 1 2 2 5 8 2 1 1 0 2 1 3 0 1 2 3 7 -3 5
10 Hibernian 5 1 1 3 9 10 2 0 0 2 4 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 -1 4
11 Aberdeen 5 0 2 3 3 9 2 0 0 2 1 5 3 0 2 1 2 4 -6 2
12 St. Johnstone 5 0 2 3 2 8 3 0 1 2 2 6 2 0 1 1 0 2 -6 2

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.