The visiting Hearts side should be favourites in this visit to Alloa Athletic, as the away team holds a 16 point advantage from their ten league games this season.
- Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-14) in Championship
- Hearts has the most scored goals (30) in Championship
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Hearts have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 2-0-4 (win-draw-loss) from six matches.
Alloa Athletic form and stats
Alloa Athletic's results here at Indodrill Stadium in the Championship have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
The Alloa crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Cove Rangers here at Indodrill Stadium in a Scottish Cup match. In the match before that, Alloa hosted Greenock Morton and drew the Championship game 1-1.
The Alloa fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 9 goals in 6 league matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Alloa have allowed the opposition to score 16 goals here at Indodrill Stadium.
Hearts form and stats
As the visiting team in Championship matches, Hearts, who have the most scored goals (30) in Championship, have produced an overall stat of 2-0-2 so far.
Hearts lost away at Dundee (1-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Arbroath.
As mentioned earlier, Hearts will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in three wins (one by two or more goals winning margin), one draw and zero surprising defeats.
Hearts are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). Hearts have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Hearts - Alloa 3-0 played earlier this season. Alloa-Hearts H2H statistics last seven meetings regardless of arena: Alloa Athletic one win, Hearts six wins, zero draws. four of these seven matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  L. Boyce 5 goals |  S. Naismith 5 goals |  S. Kingsley 4 goals |
Alloa Athletic missing players
Hearts missing players
| Alloa Athletic | Hearts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 30 |
| 25 | 16 | 7 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 90% |
| 55% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 36% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 50% |
| 27% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 55% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 70% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 30% |
| 36% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 0.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 1.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.9 | 9.7 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 14 | 13.8 |
| 2.3 | 3.5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.3 | 5.6 |
| 44% | 43% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 25% | 58% |
- All of Alloa Athletic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Alloa Athletic has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Championship
- Alloa Athletic has the most conceded goals (16) at home in Championship
- Alloa Athletic has the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Championship
- Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-14) in Championship
- Alloa Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in Championship
- Alloa Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Alloa Athletic have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Alloa Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Alloa Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hearts has the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Championship
- Hearts has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Championship
- Hearts has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Championship
- Hearts has the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Championship
- Hearts has the most clean sheets (2) away in Championship
- Hearts has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Championship
- Hearts has the most scored goals (30) in Championship
- Hearts has the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Championship
- Hearts has the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Championship
- Hearts has the the best goal difference (+17) in Championship
- Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Hearts have scored in all their matches so far.
- Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Alloa Athletic.
- Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hearts is in the best form (5-0-1)
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 24 |
| 2 | Dunfermline Athletic | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Dundee | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 19 |
| 4 | Raith Rovers | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 15 |
| 5 | Greenock Morton | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 6 | Ayr United | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 13 |
| 7 | Inverness CT | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Queen of the South | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -12 | 10 |
| 9 | Alloa Athletic | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -14 | 8 |
| 10 | Arbroath | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -10 | 5 |