The Hearts & Motherwell bosses R. Neilson and G. Alexander are both afraid of and feeling excited about this important game in the top regions of the Premiership league table.
- Hearts have not yet lost a game.
- Motherwell is in the best form (4-2-0)
This should be an appealing fixture with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well renewed since they last played a game. Let's start!
Hearts form and stats
The total Premiership stats playing at home this season for Hearts are 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). Hearts has a nice streak going on as they have played twelve consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Queen of the South defeat 188 days ago.
A nice win for Hearts last time playing, versus Livingston. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-0 with Alex Cochrane, Liam Boyce and Michael Smith scoring for the victors. Midfielder Cameron Devlin was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.14 (out of ten) in that game. Devlin hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 72 successful passes (of 87 total).
Preceding that game was the away draw at Ross County that finished 2-2.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 nine games) they have won one time, drawn five and lost three.
Hearts have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Tynecastle Park with 6 goals in 4 league matches. Defensively Hearts have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Motherwell form and stats
Things could have gone better for Motherwell in their Premiership away matches, but 5 points from 3 games is all right.
Motherwell go into this game after a win, the home game against Ross County that ended 2-1. The attacker Tony Watt got a match rating of 7.72 in that game. Watt scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Rangers.Motherwell are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is five wins, two draws and three defeats. From a total of ten matches.
The visiting Motherwell have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. 3 goals have been conceded by Motherwell in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Hearts victories, two draws and four Motherwell wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Boyce 5 goals |   T. Watt 4 goals |  K. van Veen 2 goals |
Hearts missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Hearts | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 86% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 43% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 14% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5.3 | 6 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5.7 | 3.3 |
| 3.6 | 3.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 13 | 8.3 | 6 |
| 1.3 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.7 | 11.8 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 9 | 8.3 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 41% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 36% | 44% |
- All of Motherwell's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hearts have not yet lost a game.
- Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Motherwell have not yet lost a game away.
- Motherwell have scored in all their matches so far.
- Motherwell have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Motherwell is in the best form (4-2-0)
| 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 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 2 | Hearts | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 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 | St. Mirren | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 4 |
| 10 | Livingston | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -9 | 4 |
| 11 | Ross County | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -9 | 3 |
| 12 | Dundee | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -9 | 3 |