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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 25.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tynecastle Park (20099 seats)

There should be a considerable gap in performance between these sides based on the league table so far, with Hearts in front of Livingston by 8 points.

Insights:
  • Hearts have not yet lost a game.
  • Livingston have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Premiership

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the League Cup. That game, against Rangers, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Livingston.

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Hearts form and stats

Hearts have secured 5 points from their first three home games in the Premiership. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. Hearts haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Queen of the South, 181 days ago.

The home team returns to Tynecastle Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Ross County (placed 11th) on their last time out; the Premiership game ended 2-2. The striker Liam Boyce was declared "man of the match" for Hearts with a rating of 8.11/10. Boyce scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Hibernian that ended 0-0.

Hearts has scored 3 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. From these home matches, Hearts have conceded only 2 goals.

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Livingston form and stats

The Premiership season is young and Livingston have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Livingston goalkeeper Maksymilian Stryjek is eager to challenge this, with his 181 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Livingston lost away at Rangers (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Celtic in the Premiership.

Goals are few and far between in Livingston's away league games. Only 0 goals from 3 travels. Livingston struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 5 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings involving these contenders: Hearts won five, Livingston were winners in one and we saw four draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Boyce
L. Boyce
4 goals
HeartsJ. Souttar
J. Souttar
1 goals
HeartsS. Kingsley
S. Kingsley
1 goals

Hearts missing players

Livingston missing players

Hearts Livingston
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 2 3 6
3 1 0 Won W 0 0 1
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 1
0 0 0 Lost L 2 2 4
9 3 0 Scored S 0 0 3
5 2 0 Conceded C 5 5 9
83% 67% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 67% 83%
83% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
50% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 50%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
67% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
33% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 33%
17% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 50%
 
5.5 6.7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.7 4.5
4 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.3 6.5
1.5 1.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.3 3.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.7 11.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 4 6.3 8.3
4 3.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 1.7 2.2
38% 27% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 23%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hearts have not yet lost a game.
  • Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Livingston.
  • Hearts have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Livingston have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Livingston have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the most conceded goals in the second half (8) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Premiership
  • Livingston have yet to win a game 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 Rangers 6 4 1 1 11 5 3 2 1 0 5 1 3 2 0 1 6 4 6 13
2 Hibernian 6 3 3 0 12 6 3 2 1 0 7 2 3 1 2 0 5 4 6 12
3 Hearts 6 3 3 0 9 5 3 1 2 0 3 2 3 2 1 0 6 3 4 12
4 Motherwell 6 3 2 1 9 6 3 2 0 1 5 3 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 11
5 Dundee United 6 3 1 2 3 4 3 2 0 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 -1 10
6 Celtic 6 3 0 3 16 4 3 3 0 0 15 0 3 0 0 3 1 4 12 9
7 Aberdeen 6 2 2 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 4 0 8
8 St. Johnstone 6 1 3 2 3 4 3 0 1 2 2 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 -1 6
9 Livingston 6 1 1 4 3 9 3 1 0 2 3 4 3 0 1 2 0 5 -6 4
10 St. Mirren 6 0 4 2 5 12 3 0 2 1 1 2 3 0 2 1 4 10 -7 4
11 Ross County 6 0 3 3 5 13 3 0 2 1 4 6 3 0 1 2 1 7 -8 3
12 Dundee 6 0 3 3 4 12 3 0 3 0 4 4 3 0 0 3 0 8 -8 3

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.