A quick peek at the Premiership table shows that this is top- vs mid-table, but that's not all there is to know. Get our Hearts - Hibernian match preview!
- Hearts have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership
- Hibernian have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
This is the Edinburgh derby, one of the longest running rivalries in world football. The first match between the two teams was played in 1875. Hearts and Hibernian are the two oldest professional clubs from Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. A lot of pride is at stake when these teams meet.
These teams are located so close to each other that their supporters eat in the same restaurants, hang out at the same night clubs and give birth at the same hospitals. This means added importance to the game and a vibrant atmosphere.
This looks to be an exciting game with lots of fun 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. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
Hearts enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at St. Johnstone's place. The match ended 3-2 with Forrest, Shankland and McKay scoring. Manager Neilson felt very clever after McKay scored the winning goal against St. Johnstone, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 63rd minute. The attacking player Shankland was announced as "man of the match" for Hearts with the rating of 7.62/10. Shankland scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 20 successful passes (of 25 total).
Preceding that game was the away draw at Dundee United that finished 2-2.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hearts handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats.
An interesting fact: 8 of the latest 10 league matches from this club have had goals from both teams.
Goals decide football matches and Hearts are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 8 league matches.
Hibernian form and stats
Hibernian have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-0-7 (9 played). A depressing five defeats in a row for Hibernian in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Ross County.
This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Celtic with 0-4 on the scoreboard. Hibernian lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Newell got a match rating of 7.32 in that game, top player of the team. Newell hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against Livingston.Hibernian are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Hibernian as they have only managed to score 8 times from 9 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Hearts have won or drawn the last 7 matches (4-3-0) against Hibernian.Hearts and Hibernian have faced each other already this season: Hibernian - Hearts 1-1.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Shankland 13 goals |   M. Boyle 5 goals |  A. Forrest 4 goals |
Hearts missing players
Hibernian missing players
| Hearts | Hibernian | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 32 | 19 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 24 |
| 30 | 16 | 3 | Conceded | C | 13 | 18 | 30 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 56% | 68% |
| 67% | 88% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 44% | 53% |
| 50% | 75% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 37% |
| 28% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 33% | 16% |
| 67% | 88% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 44% | 42% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 22% | 32% |
| 28% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 26% |
| 5.1 | 5.2 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 7.7 | 6.6 |
| 5.2 | 5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 1.7 | 1 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.8 | 15.8 | 22.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 16 | 16.3 |
| 4.1 | 6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
| 43% | 40% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 19% | 24% |
| 15.1 | 14.6 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.3 | 11.8 | 10.4 |
| 5.1 | 6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.7 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
- All of Hearts's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hearts have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hibernian have scored away.
- Hearts have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Premiership
- Hearts have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership
- Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hibernian have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 8 | 46 | 54 |
| 2 | Rangers | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 44 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 45 |
| 3 | Hearts | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 19 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 33 | 32 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 1 | 25 |
| 5 | St. Mirren | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -4 | 25 |
| 6 | St. Johnstone | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -5 | 24 |
| 7 | Livingston | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -10 | 24 |
| 8 | Hibernian | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 18 | -6 | 23 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 19 | -16 | 19 |
| 10 | Motherwell | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | -5 | 18 |
| 11 | Dundee United | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -11 | 16 |
| 12 | Ross County | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -18 | 15 |
