The Hearts & Rangers bosses Neilson and Bronckhorst are both anxious about and feeling excited about this key match in the top regions of the Premiership table.
- Hearts have won all their matches at home so far.
- Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (6) in Premiership
Hearts and Rangers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Hearts form and stats
Perfect Premiership season at home so far for Hearts 3 wins from 3 appearances.
Hearts are returning here after visiting Motherwell and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. Forrest (2) and Shankland scored the goal(s). Midfield player Forrest got a match rating of 8.73 in that game, the max score being 10. Forrest scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Before that one, a nice away victory at Rigas FS. A Europa Conference League match.
Hearts's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Rangers form and stats
Things could have gone better for Rangers in their Premiership away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.
The regulars enjoyed Rangers's previous match versus Dundee United (placed 12th), a 2-1 win played at home. Attacker Čolak got a player rating of 8.31 in the game. "Man of the match" Čolak scored two goals and hit one key pass.
The match before that was the Champions League-duel against Napoli, a home loss (0-3).
Will there be lots of goals? This side have played 5 consecutive league fixtures all ending with at least three goals (over 2.5 goals).
Rangers have another game away from home in just three nights, a Champions League match against Liverpool. A rough fixture list for them!
The visiting Rangers have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. For Rangers, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
The 4 latest games involving these opponents have all ended as Rangers wins. Another one?Morelos loves to face Hearts and have scored 7 goals in these matches.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Čolak 6 goals |   L. Shankland 4 goals |  A. Forrest 3 goals |
Hearts missing players
Rangers missing players
| Hearts | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 29% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 29% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 14% |
| 4.3 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5 | 6.6 |
| 4 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| 1.9 | 0.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | 18 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 13 | 18.1 |
| 4.1 | 6.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.3 | 5.9 |
| 45% | 45% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 39% |
| 13.4 | 10.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 8.7 | 6.7 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4 | 2.7 |
- All of Hearts's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Rangers's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Hearts have won all their matches at home so far.
- Hearts have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rangers have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Premiership
- Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (6) in Premiership
- Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- 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 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 18 |
| 2 | Rangers | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Hearts | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | St. Mirren | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Livingston | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Ross County | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 5 |
| 11 | Kilmarnock | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | -9 | 4 |
| 12 | Dundee United | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -17 | 2 |
