Premiership prediction and preview: Hearts modest favorites to beat Ross County

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Date: Sat 10.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tynecastle Park (20099 seats)

After the first game it's Hearts - Ross County 0-3 in points. Who will triumph in this second Premiership game of the season?

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Hearts form and stats

In their previous game, the manager C. Levein led his Hearts to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Aberdeen. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Tynecastle Park. 1-1 away at East Fife before that.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Hearts have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Last season, Hearts's league statistics were 15 wins, 6 draws and 17 losses, resulting in a 6th position in the Premiership. Over these 38 matches they scored 42 goals and conceded 50. Playing at home last season Hearts managed 0-0-2 (win-draw-lost) with 1 goal and 4 conceded.

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Ross County form and stats

Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Hearts. Ross County love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Ross County won their last game, 3-0 versus Hamilton Academical played at home. Preceding that game was the away League Cup victory against St. Johnstone with the score of 2-1.

Ross County are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of five matches.

Let's have a look at how Ross County performed last season in the Championship: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 21 victories, 8 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 63 and conceded 34 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 4 and lost 6 with 31/25 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Hearts victories, 5 draws and 1 Ross County win. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. Walker
1 goals
S. Naismith
1 goals
B. McKay
1 goals / 1 assists

Hearts missing players

Ross County missing players

Hearts Ross County
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost 0 0 0
2 0 0 Scored 0 0 3
3 0 0 Conceded 0 0 0
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
4 0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0 9
4 0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0 6
4 0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0 0
1 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Hearts Last season Ross County
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
38 19   Played   18 36
15 8   Won   8 21
6 4   Drew   4 8
17 7   Lost   6 7
42 22   Scored   31 63
50 18   Conceded   25 34
92% 84%   Over 0.5   94% 92%
68% 63%   Over 1.5   72% 72%
53% 47%   Over 2.5   61% 50%
18% 11%   Over 3.5   44% 31%
11% 5%   Over 4.5   22% 17%
47% 53%   BTTS   61% 50%
32% 37%   Clean Sheets   17% 36%
29% 26%   Failed To Score   28% 22%
 
4.6 6.1   Corners For (avg)   5.6 5.6
4.6 4.1   Corners Against (avg)   4.8 4.6
2.2 2.1   Yellow Cards (avg)   2 1.9
5 1   Red Cards   3 5
Key stats last season:
  • Hearts have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Hearts
All Premiership League Cup Club Friendlies Scottish Cup
All Home Away
12-07-19 LC Hearts 1 - 1 Dundee United
16-07-19 LC Cowdenbeath 0 - 2 Hearts
24-07-19 LC Hearts 2 - 1 Stenhousemuir
27-07-19 LC East Fife 1 - 1 Hearts
04-08-19 PR Aberdeen 3 - 2 Hearts
10-08-19 PR Hearts 14:00 Ross County
16-08-19 LC Motherwell 18:45 Hearts
24-08-19 PR Celtic 14:00 Hearts
31-08-19 PR Hearts 14:00 Hamilton Academical
14-09-19 PR Hearts 14:00 Motherwell
Ross County
All Premiership Championship League Cup Club Friendlies Scottish Cup Challenge Cup
All Home Away
16-07-19 LC Brechin City 0 - 4 Ross County
21-07-19 LC St. Johnstone 1 - 2 Ross County
24-07-19 LC Ross County 2 - 0 Forfar Athletic
27-07-19 CF Ross County 2 - 0 Carlisle United
03-08-19 PR Ross County 3 - 0 Hamilton Academical
10-08-19 PR Hearts 14:00 Ross County
17-08-19 LC Partick Thistle 14:00 Ross County
24-08-19 PR Ross County 14:00 Livingston
31-08-19 PR Aberdeen 14:00 Ross County
14-09-19 PR Ross County 14:00 St. Mirren

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Celtic 1 1 0 0 7 0 1 1 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3
2 Ross County 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
3 Aberdeen 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Hibernian 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
6 Livingston 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Motherwell 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
8 Hearts 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
9 Kilmarnock 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
10 St. Mirren 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
11 Hamilton Academical 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0
12 St. Johnstone 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 -7 0

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