Struggling Hearts will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Rangers in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
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.
Hearts have had a bad season and will be relegated from Premiership.
Hearts form and stats
With 1 Premiership win, 5 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Hearts are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Hearts who hasn’t won a game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against St. Mirren, 78 days ago.
The home team returns to Tynecastle Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Ross County (placed 8th) on their last time out; the Premiership game ended 0-0. Previous to that game, a Scottish Cup home match hosting Airdrieonians in a game that was won 5-0.
Hearts are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 11 games. 16 goals have been conceded.
Rangers form and stats
Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Rangers so far, with 9-2-0 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Premiership statistics. In general it has been a productive period now for Rangers as they haven't lost any of their last 16 games. Having won their last three away games Rangers has no reason to fear anyone.
Rangers won their last game, 1-0 versus St. Mirren played at home. A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Stranraer.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ross County in just three days.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Rangers are regular goalscorers on their travels. Rangers are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 11 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Rangers - Hearts 5-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Hearts 0 wins, 1 draw and Rangers 9 victories. As for goals, 8 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 
J. Defoe
12 goals
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A. Morelos Aviléz
12 goals
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R. Kent
5 goals
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| Hearts | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 20 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | 12 | 3 | Scored | S | 8 | 26 | 54 |
| 35 | 16 | 6 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 82% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 91% | 85% |
| 41% | 27% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 64% | 65% |
| 27% | 27% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 36% | 45% |
| 18% | 18% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 45% | 55% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 45% | 40% |
| 18% | 9% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 55% | 55% |
| 55% | 45% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 5.6 | 5.9 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 5.4 | 6.8 |
| 5 | 5.4 | 5.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1.7 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 215 | 127 | 31 | Total Shots | T S | 57 | 172 | 350 |
| 74 | 51 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 24 | 73 | 151 |
| 24% | 24% | 21% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 36% | 36% |
- Hearts has the fewest points (8) at home
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (11)
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (6) away
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (11)
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (6) away
- Rangers has the most points (29) away
- Rangers has the most scored goals (26) away
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+20) away
- Rangers have not yet lost a game away.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.
- 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.
- Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celtic | 21 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 58 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 44 | 55 |
| 2 | Rangers | 20 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 54 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 6 | 43 | 53 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 22 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 34 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 40 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 36 |
| 5 | Livingston | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 28 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -6 | 28 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 18 | -9 | 23 |
| 8 | Ross County | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 42 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | -20 | 22 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | -19 | 20 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 18 | -13 | 19 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -15 | 18 |
| 12 | Hearts | 22 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 19 | -17 | 14 |