This league campaign has been a rollercoaster for these teams so far, highs and lows resulting in mid-table spots so far. Clear the decks for Hearts - Motherwell!
- Hearts have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premiership
- Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
There haven't been much to rest for the hosts, as they played a Europa Conference League fixture only three days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Istanbul Basaksehir.
Hearts form and stats
Hearts have collected 9 points from their Premiership home games so far after 3-0-2. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Hearts, their manager Neilson and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
The supporters hope that Hearts will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Europa Conference League fixture against Istanbul Basaksehir. Atkinson was "man of the match" with a rating of 6.91 out of 10. The defender Atkinson scored one goal and won 8 of 12 duels.
Before that match, a Premiership win away at Ross County.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hearts handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hearts as they are travelling to their away game against Rangers in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
Hearts can score goals in their home matches. After 5 league matches they have found the net 12 times. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Hearts with 12 goals conceded in these matches.
Motherwell form and stats
4 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Motherwell playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.
It's the second away game in a row for Motherwell, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Dundee United (placed 11th) last time out. Those three points felt nice as this side had gone three league rounds without winning. Johansen was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.82. The defender Johansen scored one goal and won 5 of 8 duels.
A loss against Aberdeen was the result prior to that, in a home game.Motherwell are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.
A new game in only three days for Motherwell, the Premiership home match versus Celtic. Busy days.
Motherwell are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 7 away games so far.
Head 2 Head
The sides have met each other previously this season, with the final score Motherwell - Hearts 0-3 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Hearts four wins, one draw and Motherwell five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Shankland 8 goals |   K. van Veen 7 goals |  A. Forrest 3 goals |
Hearts missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Hearts | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 20 | 12 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 16 |
| 21 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 57% | 62% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 57% | 62% |
| 42% | 80% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 15% |
| 25% | 60% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 29% | 15% |
| 58% | 80% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 43% | 46% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 43% | 38% |
| 33% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 23% |
| 3.6 | 3.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 5.3 | 4.5 |
| 4.8 | 4.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6.4 | 4.8 |
| 1.8 | 0.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.9 | 15.6 | 27 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 10.7 | 11.9 |
| 4.1 | 6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| 41% | 40% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 36% |
| 14.8 | 12.8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 13.6 | 10.8 |
| 5.2 | 5.8 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
- All of Hearts's home-matches have had more than 2,5 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 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.
- Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 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 | Celtic | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 33 | 33 |
| 2 | Rangers | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 29 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | St. Mirren | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -5 | 19 |
| 6 | Hearts | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | Motherwell | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Livingston | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 16 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | -11 | 12 |
| 11 | Dundee United | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -15 | 9 |
| 12 | Ross County | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -15 | 9 |
