Championship preview with statistics: Greenock Morton welcomes Hearts to Cappielow Park

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 05.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cappielow Park (11589 seats)

It's still early in the Championship season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Greenock Morton - Hearts preview!

Insights:
  • Greenock Morton have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Greenock Morton form and stats

Perfect Championship season at home so far for Greenock Morton 2 wins from 2 appearances.

Greenock haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 182 minutes ago. L. Strapp scored that one.

Greenock Morton manager D. Hopkin and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Arbroath (placed 9th) in the Championship. Before that, Greenock played out a League Cup draw 0-0 when visiting Partick Thistle (after extra-time).

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Greenock Morton at home in the league. 4 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Hearts form and stats

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

It might be tough going out on the road again for Hearts, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Alloa Athletic (after extra-time) (placed 10th). A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Alloa Athletic.

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

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

HeartsM. Smith
M. Smith
2 goals
HeartsL. Boyce
L. Boyce
2 goals
GreenockL. Strapp
L. Strapp
1 goals

Greenock Morton missing players

Hearts missing players

Greenock Morton Hearts
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 0 2 5
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
4 4 0 Scored S 0 2 13
8 2 0 Conceded C 0 2 5
80% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
40% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 80%
40% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 80%
40% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 20%
40% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
20% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 60%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 40%
60% 0% 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 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.4 8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 15 13
2.4 3.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.2
33% 57% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 71%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Greenock Morton have won all their matches at home so far.
  • 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 Greenock Morton.
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Greenock Morton Last season Hearts
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
28 14   Played P   15 30
10 6   Won W   2 4
6 5   Drew D   4 11
12 3   Lost L   9 15
45 27   Scored S   12 31
52 22   Conceded C   29 52
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   80% 87%
86% 86%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   60% 70%
68% 64%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   60% 50%
43% 43%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   40% 37%
32% 36%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   27% 23%
71% 86%   BTTS BTTS   40% 53%
14% 14%   Clean Sheets C S   20% 13%
14% 0%   Failed to Score F T   60% 47%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
1.5 1.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2.1
1 1   Red cards R C   3 4
 
8.1 9.1   Shots (avg) S (   7.5 9.7
3.1 3.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.4 3.7
51% 57%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 28%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dunfermline Athletic 5 4 1 0 12 5 3 3 0 0 8 4 2 1 1 0 4 1 7 13
2 Hearts 5 4 0 1 13 5 3 3 0 0 11 3 2 1 0 1 2 2 8 12
3 Raith Rovers 5 3 1 1 14 5 2 2 0 0 8 0 3 1 1 1 6 5 9 10
4 Ayr United 5 2 2 1 7 5 3 2 1 0 4 1 2 0 1 1 3 4 2 8
5 Inverness CT 5 2 1 2 8 7 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 0 0 2 2 5 1 7
6 Greenock Morton 5 2 1 2 4 8 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 0 1 2 0 6 -4 7
7 Dundee 5 1 2 2 7 12 2 1 1 0 2 1 3 0 1 2 5 11 -5 5
8 Queen of the South 5 1 1 3 8 11 2 1 0 1 4 5 3 0 1 2 4 6 -3 4
9 Arbroath 5 0 2 3 2 8 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 6 -6 2
10 Alloa Athletic 5 0 1 4 4 13 2 0 1 1 4 7 3 0 0 3 0 6 -9 1

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The Scottish Championship is the second level of the Scottish Professional Football League. Ten teams play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures in a season from August to May. The winner in the league table promotes to the Premiership and a playoff can promote one more team.