It's the second opportunity for points this season as Hearts and Kilmarnock fight it out at Tynecastle Park.
This football stadium has grass, which is not Kilmarnock's usual surface at their own field. When appearing on grass Kilmarnock have performed like this: Played 37 matches with the outcome 11 wins, 5 draws and 21 defeats with the goal numbers 32-51 (scored/conceded).
The hosts Hearts saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Rosenborg.
Hearts form and stats
The fans are hoping that Hearts will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Europa Conference League fixture against Rosenborg.
In the game before, an away victory in the Premiership match versus St. Johnstone with a 2-0 scoreline.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Hearts have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 2 and lost 0.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Europa Conference League game versus Rosenborg in only four days. This game is also played here at Tynecastle Park.
Kilmarnock form and stats
Let's have a look at how Kilmarnock performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 20 victories, 7 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 50 and conceded {27 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 6 and lost 4 with 22/13 goals scored/conceded.
Kilmarnock are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the game against Rangers (placed 10th). Goalkeeper Dennis got the top player rating of the team with 8.11/10. Dennis topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that, the League Cup victory away at Albion Rovers. Kilmarnock 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, 2 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the last ten meetings): Hearts won two games, one match ended with a draw and Kilmarnock have seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four.
Top Goalscorers
  Y. Oda 1 goals |  L. Shankland 1 goals |   B. Lyons 1 goals |
Hearts missing players
Kilmarnock missing players
| Hearts | Kilmarnock | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 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% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
