A very important fixture in Premiership as both teams are challenging for the top league positions. With Hearts in 3rd position and Dundee United placed 4th, this promises to be an exciting fight. Read on to find out more!
- Hearts have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
This looks to be an absorbing fixture with lots of action and energy as both participants are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Get ready!
Hearts form and stats
Hearts are steadily winning Premiership games and points here at Tynecastle Park. 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games.
Hearts lost their last game at Aberdeen (placed 6th) after a 1-2 scoreline. John Souttar was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.05 out of 10. The defender Souttar scored one goal and won 7 of 9 duels.
Preceding that game was the away draw at St. Johnstone that finished 1-1.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Hearts's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won two matches, drawn one and lost zero.
A decent goal production from Hearts in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Hearts have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Dundee United form and stats
The visitors are W2-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Dundee failed to get anything from their last game, a Premiership home match vs St. Johnstone (placed 9th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Midfield player Dylan Levitt was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.81/10. Levitt hit two key passes and had 52 successful passes (of 61 total).
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Livingston.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Dundee United when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing one and winning one game.
The visiting Dundee United have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 6 games. It's not easy to score on Dundee as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have met each other already this season, with the final score Dundee United - Hearts 0-2 registered in the official records. Previous ten meetings with these teams: Hearts won four, Dundee United were winners in four and we saw two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  L. Boyce 6 goals |  J. Souttar 3 goals |  S. Kingsley 2 goals |
Hearts missing players
Dundee United missing players
| Hearts | Dundee United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 10 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 42% | 33% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 67% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 25% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 5.3 | 6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| 4.4 | 4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 6.2 | 5.8 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.7 | 12.8 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 10 | 10.9 |
| 3.9 | 4.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 38% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 27% | 21% |
- Dundee United have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most matches under the total-line (8) in Premiership
- Hearts have not yet lost a game at home.
- Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Hearts have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premiership
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rangers | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Celtic | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 23 |
| 3 | Hearts | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 21 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Aberdeen | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Motherwell | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 15 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 14 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Livingston | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 12 |
| 11 | Dundee | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -14 | 10 |
| 12 | Ross County | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 6 |