It's time to decide the outcome of the Europa League Play-offs meeting between Hearts and Zürich. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Hearts form and stats
34 points is a decent return from 14 Europa League games here at Tynecastle Park for Hearts. The data says 11 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Hearts lost their last game at Celtic after a 0-2 scoreline.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Hearts as they have a new game in only three days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. St. Johnstone are visiting.
It's goals goals goals for Hearts who have scored 44 goals from 14 league home games. Hearts's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Zürich form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Linfield in order to reach play-offs of Europa League.The Super League season is young and Zürich have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
Two away games in a row for Zürich, whose coach Foda could celebrate last time after the Swiss Cup win against Cham.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Zürich in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Zürich, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
A quick return to home after this game, as Zürich are hosting Basel in the Super League only three days away.
Goals are few and far between in Zürich's away league games. Only 1 goal from 3 travels. For Zürich, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Hearts and Zürich have faced each other before this season: Zürich - Hearts 2-1.
Top Goalscorers
  B. McKay 2 goals |  L. Shankland 2 goals |  J. Ginnelly 1 goals |
Hearts missing players
Zürich missing players
| Hearts | Zürich | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 7 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 53 | 24 | Scored | S | 23 | 42 | ||
| 33 | 12 | Conceded | C | 19 | 36 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 68% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 24% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 4 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.9 | 11.4 | ||
| 4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.1 | ||
| 41% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 33% | ||
| 11 | 9.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.1 | 11.2 | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hearts | 27 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 63 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 44 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 39 | 57 |
| 2 | Dundee | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 49 | 40 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 45 |
| 3 | Raith Rovers | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 43 |
| 4 | Dunfermline Athletic | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 38 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 39 |
| 5 | Inverness CT | 27 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 36 | 31 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 36 |
| 6 | Queen of the South | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 38 | 51 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 27 | -13 | 32 |
| 7 | Arbroath | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 23 | -6 | 30 |
| 8 | Ayr United | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 31 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 25 | -6 | 29 |
| 9 | Greenock Morton | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 29 |
| 10 | Alloa Athletic | 27 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 60 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 31 | -30 | 22 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Young Boys | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | Grasshopper | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Sion | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Servette | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 6 | Lugano | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Luzern | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Basel | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Winterthur | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 2 |
| 10 | Zürich | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 2 |
