Premiership match preview: Hearts believed to be the weaker party when Rangers pays a visit

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 01.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Tynecastle Park (20099 seats)

This pair of sides are enjoying a quality season so far and games like this one could be momentous. Read more about Hearts - Rangers!

Insights:
  • Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership

It's no vacation for neither Hearts nor Rangers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Hearts form and stats

25 points is a decent return from 11 Premiership games here at Tynecastle Park for Hearts. The data says 8 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. After failing to beat Livingston here at Tynecastle Park, Hearts has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Hearts, as their goalkeeper Zander Clark has completely shut out the opponents for 356 minutes in the Premiership.

Hearts drew their last game, 0-0 away at Livingston (placed 4th). Rowles, defender, was given a rating of 8.02/10 in that game, top of the team. Rowles won 6 of 8 duels.

In the game before, a nice away win at Hibernian. A Scottish Cup match.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Dundee United are coming to town in three days.

Hearts are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Tynecastle Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 28 goals in 11 matches. 16 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Rangers form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 7 wins, 2 draws and only 2 losses in the Premiership. In general it has been a productive period now for Rangers as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

Rangers are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the match against St. Johnstone (placed 8th). Tavernier, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.85. Tavernier scored one goal, hit four key passes and won 7 of 11 duels.

Before that, the Scottish Cup win away at St. Johnstone.

After this away game Rangers return home for a Premiership game against Ross County. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Rangers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 21 times in 11 away games so far. As opposed to that, Rangers have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The 6 most recent fixtures involving these two teams have all finished as Rangers wins. More of the same or streak broken?

Rangers - Hearts 1-0 was the scoreline in these teams' latest h2h game, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Shankland
L. Shankland
16 goals
RangersA. Čolak
A. Čolak
11 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
8 goals

Hearts missing players

Rangers missing players

Hearts Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 2 11 23
11 8 0 Won W 1 7 17
6 1 1 Drew D 0 2 4
6 2 1 Lost L 1 2 2
42 28 4 Scored S 2 21 53
31 16 5 Conceded C 5 15 22
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 91%
61% 82% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 73% 70%
43% 64% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 45% 48%
26% 45% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 17%
57% 64% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 64% 52%
22% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 43%
26% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 9% 4%
 
4.9 4.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6.4 7.5
5 5.2 6 Corners against (avg) C A 1.5 2.6 3.1
1.7 1.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.2 1.9
5 3 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.3 14.7 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 13.4 17.4
4.2 5.7 7.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 5.2 6.3
44% 44% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 37% 37%
 
14.5 14.6 15.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 7.5 7
4.6 4.8 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 2.4 2.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 23 21 1 1 71 17 11 11 0 0 34 7 12 10 1 1 37 10 54 64
2 Rangers 23 17 4 2 53 22 12 10 2 0 32 7 11 7 2 2 21 15 31 55
3 Hearts 23 11 6 6 42 31 11 8 1 2 28 16 12 3 5 4 14 15 11 39
4 Livingston 22 9 5 8 24 30 11 5 3 3 10 10 11 4 2 5 14 20 -6 32
5 Hibernian 23 9 3 11 35 37 12 6 3 3 24 14 11 3 0 8 11 23 -2 30
6 St. Mirren 22 8 6 8 23 31 12 7 4 1 16 8 10 1 2 7 7 23 -8 30
7 Aberdeen 23 9 2 12 35 43 11 7 1 3 26 10 12 2 1 9 9 33 -8 29
8 St. Johnstone 23 7 3 13 26 38 11 3 2 6 12 14 12 4 1 7 14 24 -12 24
9 Motherwell 22 5 5 12 26 33 10 1 3 6 10 17 12 4 2 6 16 16 -7 20
10 Dundee United 22 5 5 12 25 39 12 4 1 7 15 22 10 1 4 5 10 17 -14 20
11 Ross County 23 5 5 13 18 35 12 3 2 7 12 21 11 2 3 6 6 14 -17 20
12 Kilmarnock 23 5 5 13 19 41 11 5 3 3 15 17 12 0 2 10 4 24 -22 20

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.