Kilmarnock vs Hearts: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 09.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rugby Park (17889 seats)

Kilmarnock are aiming to overlook the league table ahead of this fixture versus Hearts. Here's all you need to know before the game!

Insights:
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership
  • Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Kilmarnock.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Kilmarnock and Hearts.

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Kilmarnock form and stats

Kilmarnock have collected 7 points from their Premiership home games so far after 2-1-1.

Kilmarnock's last game was hosting St. Johnstone (placed 9th) and winning 2-1. Finally, a league victory after three matches without. Midfield player Armstrong got a match rating of 9.21 in that game, the max score being 10. Armstrong scored two goals, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.

Prior to that, an away loss at Aberdeen.

Kilmarnock has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches.

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Hearts form and stats

1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Hearts playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, a Europa Conference League home defeat versus Fiorentina with 0-3 on the scoreboard. Grant got a match rating of 7.32 in that game, top player of the team. Grant dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Preceding that, the 0-4 home loss versus Rangers.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Europa Conference League trip to Fiorentina.

Hearts have the goal stats of 4-4 (for/against) from 4 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

The 5 most recent fixtures involving these sides have all finished as Kilmarnock wins. Will history repeat itself?

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Shankland
L. Shankland
4 goals
KilmarnockA. Taylor
A. Taylor
3 goals
KilmarnockD. Armstrong
D. Armstrong
3 goals

Kilmarnock missing players

Hearts missing players

Kilmarnock Hearts
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 0 4 8
2 2 1 Won W 0 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
6 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
6 5 2 Scored S 0 4 13
17 8 1 Conceded C 0 4 12
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 88%
44% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 62%
22% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 38%
22% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 25%
44% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 12%
56% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 38%
 
4.6 4.8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 4.4
5.2 5.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 4.4
2.8 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
10.8 14.8 20 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.5 11.4
1.6 2.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.2 3.8
43% 56% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 43%
 
13.6 11.5 10 Shots against (avg) S A 0 15.8 14.5
5.7 5.8 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.2 4.8
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Kilmarnock's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Kilmarnock.
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kilmarnock have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kilmarnock have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kilmarnock have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Premiership
  • Kilmarnock 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 8 7 0 1 27 4 4 4 0 0 10 1 4 3 0 1 17 3 23 21
2 Rangers 8 6 1 1 20 8 4 4 0 0 12 1 4 2 1 1 8 7 12 19
3 St. Mirren 8 5 0 3 10 9 5 4 0 1 6 2 3 1 0 2 4 7 1 15
4 Hibernian 8 4 2 2 11 7 4 2 2 0 7 4 4 2 0 2 4 3 4 14
5 Aberdeen 8 4 1 3 18 11 4 3 0 1 15 5 4 1 1 2 3 6 7 13
6 Motherwell 9 4 1 4 13 11 4 1 1 2 2 5 5 3 0 2 11 6 2 13
7 Hearts 8 4 1 3 13 12 4 3 0 1 9 8 4 1 1 2 4 4 1 13
8 Livingston 8 4 0 4 7 11 4 3 0 1 5 3 4 1 0 3 2 8 -4 12
9 St. Johnstone 9 3 1 5 10 13 4 1 1 2 3 2 5 2 0 3 7 11 -3 10
10 Kilmarnock 9 2 1 6 6 17 4 2 1 1 5 8 5 0 0 5 1 9 -11 7
11 Ross County 9 1 2 6 4 18 5 1 1 3 3 11 4 0 1 3 1 7 -14 5
12 Dundee United 8 0 2 6 4 22 4 0 0 4 1 15 4 0 2 2 3 7 -18 2

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.