Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Kelty Hearts & St. Johnstone face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
St. Johnstone could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premiership game only three sleeps ago.
Kelty Hearts form and stats
In general it's been a long time since Hearts tasted defeat here at Central Park, as they have taken at least one point from their last 13 home games in the league. Hearts has a nice streak going on as they have played 21 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Cumbernauld Colts defeat 417 days ago.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Hearts, as the Football League home game vs Edinburgh University is only three days away.
Kelty Hearts have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Hearts scored 1 goal and let in 1 goal during these one game.
St. Johnstone form and stats
They also participated in League Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.With the St. Johnstone losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Johnstone have lost on their last two travels.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Celtic with 0-2 on the scoreboard. A 0-2 defeat away at Livingston before that.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Brechin City in just three days.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  L. Craig 1 goals |  D. Wotherspoon 1 goals |  S. May 1 goals |
Kelty Hearts missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Kelty Hearts | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 80 | 52 | Scored | S | 8 | 23 | ||
| 21 | 14 | Conceded | C | 11 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 56% | ||
| 72% | 79% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 36% | ||
| 52% | 57% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 52% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 36% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 44% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 152 | 124 | Total Shots | T S | 102 | 243 | ||
| 66 | 49 | Shots on Target | S O | 32 | 78 | ||
| 59% | 51% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Brechin City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Dundee United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Kelty Hearts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Peterhead | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | St. Johnstone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |