Dundee United have travelled here for an engaging battle versus the hosts Hearts. Prepare for the game with this thorough Premiership preview!
Dundee United could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa Conference League game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at AZ. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Hearts form and stats
The hosts won their first Premiership game here at Tynecastle Park, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Hearts last season were 11 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses from 14 games.
An away draw last time out for Hearts, facing Hibernian in a game that ended 1-1. Cochrane, defender, was given a rating of 7.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Cochrane won 8 of 11 duels.
Before that, Hearts had a home game versus Ross County which ended with a victory 2-1.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hearts as they are travelling to their away game against Zürich in the Europa League. That match is three days after this one.
At Tynecastle Park, Hearts has the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Dundee United form and stats
As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Dundee United have produced an overall stat of 0-1-0 so far.
Two away matches in a row for Dundee United, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-7 versus AZ in the Europa Conference League. That defeat was their first after three consecutive league fixtures winning points. Midfielder Levitt was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.15. Levitt hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).
A loss against Livingston was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.1 goal so far away for Dundee United, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Hearts have put together a sequence of 5 consecutive games without defeat (3-2-0) when playing Dundee United.The games between these sides have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  B. McKay 1 goals |  A. Forrest 1 goals |  L. Shankland 1 goals |
Hearts missing players
Dundee United missing players
| Hearts | Dundee United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 6.5 | 4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 6.5 |
| 4.5 | 2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 15 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5 | 8.5 |
| 3.5 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 43% | 67% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 10.5 | 12 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18 | 13.5 |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4 |
