Hibernian will plan to use their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s opposition. The hosting team are currently 12 points behind Hearts.
- Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hearts have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Premiership
This is the Edinburgh derby, one of the longest running rivalries in world football. The first match between the two teams was played in 1875. Hearts and Hibernian are the two oldest professional clubs from Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. A lot of pride is at stake when these teams meet.
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
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.
Hibernian form and stats
The total Premiership stats at home this season for Hibernian are 5-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).
Hibernian's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 2-3 versus Livingston (placed 8th). Nisbet, an attacker, was the best player for the side in that fixture, receiving a rating of 7.95 (out of 10). Nisbet dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 30 successful passes (of 35 total).
0-0 away at Motherwell before that.This is expected to be a close game, with Hibernian perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Hibernian as a small favourite), we find eight games. Hibernian has won two of these, drawn three and lost three.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Hibernian as they have a new game in only four days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. St. Mirren are visiting.
Hibernian are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 11 games. Hibernian's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hearts form and stats
The visitors are W4-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. Hearts have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Hearts are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the fixture against Motherwell (placed 4th). Midfielder Devlin was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.75. Devlin served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Celtic.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Hearts have scored 11 goals in 10 league games away.
Head 2 Head
The previous H2H meeting ended Hearts - Hibernian 0-0, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Hibernian victories, three draws and five Hearts wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Boyce 8 goals |   K. Nisbet 5 goals |  S. Kingsley 4 goals |
Hibernian missing players
Hearts missing players
| Hibernian | Hearts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 26 | 14 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 34 |
| 27 | 13 | 5 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 61% | 64% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 83% |
| 43% | 45% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 30% | 35% |
| 26% | 27% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 9% |
| 9% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 4% |
| 43% | 36% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 48% |
| 30% | 45% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 30% | 39% |
| 35% | 18% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| 5.3 | 6.2 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5 | 5.5 |
| 5 | 4.8 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.6 | 5 |
| 2 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11.1 | 11.8 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 11.2 | 12.6 |
| 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
| 32% | 36% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 34% | 36% |
| 11 | 10.8 | 14.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 14.3 | 13.1 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
- Hearts have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Premiership
- Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 23 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 48 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 11 | 30 | 56 |
| 2 | Celtic | 23 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 47 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 34 | 54 |
| 3 | Hearts | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 42 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -6 | 32 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 14 | -1 | 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 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -8 | 28 |
| 8 | Livingston | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -8 | 26 |
| 9 | St. Mirren | 22 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 23 | -11 | 25 |
| 10 | Ross County | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 34 | 41 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -7 | 22 |
| 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 |
