The home manager Neilson ready whip up Hearts win against Dundee

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 09.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Tynecastle Park (20099 seats)

There should be a notable gap in quality between these sides based on results so far, with Hearts leading Dundee by 25 points.

Insights:
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Dundee is in the worst form (0-2-4)

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.

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Hearts form and stats

27 points is a decent return from 13 Premiership games here at Tynecastle Park for Hearts. The data says 8 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.

Hearts haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 212 minutes ago. Simms scored that one.

Hearts faced defeat in their previous match, away at Rangers (0-5). The attacking player McEneff was announced as "man of the match" for Hearts with a rating of 7.1/10. McEneff dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 0-0 draw away before that, with Hibernian the opponent.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Scottish Cup game versus Livingston in only three days. This game is also played here at Tynecastle Park.

A decent goal production from Hearts in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 13 league matches. Hearts are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tynecastle Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 13 matches.

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Dundee form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dundee so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-9 (win-draw-lose).

Dundee might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Ross County proved too strong as Dundee slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park. Goalkeeper Legzdins got the top player rating of the team with 7.34/10. Legzdins saved a penalty.

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Dundee United.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Dundee's away games in the league this season with only 6 goals from 12 matches. In the opposite end, Dundee have conceded 23 goals in their away games. Dundee has visited these top teams three times, and 2 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before in this season, with the result Dundee - Hearts 0-1 logged in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Hearts victories, two draws and two Dundee wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Boyce
L. Boyce
8 goals
HeartsS. Kingsley
S. Kingsley
4 goals
DundeeL. McCowan
L. McCowan
4 goals

Hearts missing players

Dundee missing players

Hearts Dundee
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 13 3 Played P 3 12 24
12 8 3 Won W 0 1 4
7 3 0 Drew D 0 2 6
6 2 0 Lost L 3 9 14
34 23 6 Scored S 0 6 19
25 10 1 Conceded C 10 23 41
92% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 88%
80% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 58% 58%
36% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 42% 50%
12% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 29%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 17%
44% 46% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 38%
40% 46% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 25%
24% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 58% 50%
 
5.4 5.8 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.8 4.8
4.9 4.6 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 8.3 6.2 6.9
2 1.8 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
12.4 13.7 15 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 7.7 9.7
4.1 4.8 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 2.4 3.5
33% 37% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 22%
 
13.5 12.2 14.3 Shots against (avg) S A 20.7 15.2 14.8
4.9 4.8 5.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9.7 5.9 5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dundee have the fewest points (5) away in Premiership
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals in the second half (21) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-17) away in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-22) in Premiership
  • Dundee have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Dundee is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Dundee have scored away.

  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 25 19 3 3 54 13 12 10 2 0 28 2 13 9 1 3 26 11 41 60
2 Rangers 25 18 5 2 53 21 13 10 3 0 28 7 12 8 2 2 25 14 32 59
3 Hearts 25 12 7 6 34 25 13 8 3 2 23 10 12 4 4 4 11 15 9 43
4 Motherwell 25 9 6 10 27 37 13 7 2 4 17 19 12 2 4 6 10 18 -10 33
5 Hibernian 25 8 7 10 26 28 13 5 3 5 14 14 12 3 4 5 12 14 -2 31
6 Dundee United 25 8 6 11 19 27 12 6 0 6 10 14 13 2 6 5 9 13 -8 30
7 Aberdeen 24 8 5 11 28 29 11 6 2 3 16 10 13 2 3 8 12 19 -1 29
8 Livingston 25 8 5 12 24 32 12 4 2 6 12 14 13 4 3 6 12 18 -8 29
9 St. Mirren 24 6 11 7 23 33 12 2 7 3 9 10 12 4 4 4 14 23 -10 29
10 Ross County 25 6 8 11 37 43 12 3 5 4 21 22 13 3 3 7 16 21 -6 26
11 St. Johnstone 24 4 7 13 13 28 13 1 5 7 9 17 11 3 2 6 4 11 -15 19
12 Dundee 24 4 6 14 19 41 12 3 4 5 13 18 12 1 2 9 6 23 -22 18

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.