Hearts manager Neilson looking for three points in Motherwell showdown

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 29.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tynecastle Park (20099 seats)

The two teams are relishing a quality season so far and fixtures like today could be momentous. Get the info on Hearts - Motherwell!

Insights:
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Motherwell have scored away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Hearts form and stats

Hearts have performed here at Tynecastle Park this season with 7 wins from 12 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 2.

The Hearts crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Celtic here at Tynecastle Park.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Hearts's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won five matches, drawn zero and lost zero.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hearts as they are travelling to their away game against Hibernian in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.

Hearts have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Tynecastle Park with 21 goals in 12 league matches. From these home matches, Hearts have conceded only 10 goals.

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Motherwell form and stats

Motherwell have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 2-3-5 (10 played). Motherwell seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Motherwell's last game was the home draw against Hibernian (0-0). Maguire got a match rating of 7.85 in that game, top player of the team. Maguire hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Motherwell when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing zero times, drawing one and winning zero games.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Motherwell manager Alexander as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against St. Mirren.

Goals are few and far between in Motherwell's away league games. Only 9 goals from 10 travels. The attacking power of Motherwell when travelling is not overwhelming with 9 goals scored from 10 league matches away. Motherwell struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 15 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

These two sides faced each other before this match year: Motherwell - Hearts null. Moore (Hearts) was given a red card by the ref when these teams last played each other. Head-to-head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Hearts won five games, one match ended with a draw and Motherwell have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Boyce
L. Boyce
8 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
7 goals
HeartsS. Kingsley
S. Kingsley
4 goals

Hearts missing players

Motherwell missing players

Hearts Motherwell
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 12 3 Played P 2 10 22
11 7 1 Won W 0 2 9
6 3 0 Drew D 1 3 5
5 2 2 Lost L 1 5 8
32 21 3 Scored S 1 9 26
20 10 5 Conceded C 2 15 30
95% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
82% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 90% 82%
36% 42% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 41%
9% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 18%
5% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
50% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 60% 50%
36% 42% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 32%
18% 17% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 23%
 
5.5 5.9 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 5 4.3
5.2 4.8 6.3 Corners against (avg) C A 11.5 7.7 6.4
2 1.9 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.8 2.6
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 4
 
12.6 13.8 11 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 10.2 9.7
4.1 4.8 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 3.4 3.3
36% 36% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 26% 36%
 
13.3 12.5 16.7 Shots against (avg) S A 26 15 14.8
5 5 6.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 5.5 5.7
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Hearts have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Motherwell have scored away.
  • 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 Rangers 22 17 4 1 45 15 12 9 3 0 23 7 10 8 1 1 22 8 30 55
2 Celtic 22 16 3 3 46 13 10 8 2 0 24 2 12 8 1 3 22 11 33 51
3 Hearts 22 11 6 5 32 20 12 7 3 2 21 10 10 4 3 3 11 10 12 39
4 Motherwell 22 9 5 8 26 30 12 7 2 3 17 15 10 2 3 5 9 15 -4 32
5 Hibernian 22 8 6 8 24 24 10 5 2 3 12 10 12 3 4 5 12 14 0 30
6 Aberdeen 22 8 4 10 26 26 11 6 2 3 16 10 11 2 2 7 10 16 0 28
7 Dundee United 22 8 4 10 19 26 12 6 0 6 10 14 10 2 4 4 9 12 -7 28
8 St. Mirren 22 5 10 7 21 32 11 2 6 3 8 9 11 3 4 4 13 23 -11 25
9 Livingston 22 6 5 11 18 27 10 3 2 5 9 11 12 3 3 6 9 16 -9 23
10 Ross County 22 5 6 11 31 38 10 3 3 4 17 18 12 2 3 7 14 20 -7 21
11 Dundee 22 4 5 13 18 39 10 3 3 4 12 16 12 1 2 9 6 23 -21 17
12 St. Johnstone 22 3 6 13 11 27 12 1 4 7 9 17 10 2 2 6 2 10 -16 15

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.