Livingston vs Hearts match preview

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 05.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

This season has been difficult for Livingston up to now, while Hearts have enjoyed success. Will the visiting team chalk up another victory at Tony Macaroni Arena?

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
  • Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Livingston.

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.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston's results here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the Premiership have been very modest with 1 victory, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

The fans are hoping that Livingston will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Premiership game against Aberdeen (placed 7th). Goalkeeper Max Stryjek got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.03 out of ten. Stryjek stopped the opponent with four saves.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Rangers (1-3).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Livingston, as the Premiership home game vs Hibernian is only three days away.

Livingston aren't scoring a lot here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, with only 5 goals from 6 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Livingston defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Hearts form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Hearts have produced an overall stat of 2-3-3 so far. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Hearts's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Two away games in a row for Hearts, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Celtic in the Premiership. Defender Craig Halkett was the best team player with a rating of 7.83. Halkett won 4 of 6 duels.

Before that, Hearts secured a home win against St. Mirren with the score 2-0.

Hearts have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 9 goals have been scored. 10 goals have been conceded by Hearts in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides encountered each other earlier this match year: Hearts - Livingston 3-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Livingston victory, four draws and five Hearts wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

HeartsL. Boyce
L. Boyce
6 goals
LivingstonB. Anderson
B. Anderson
4 goals
HeartsS. Kingsley
S. Kingsley
4 goals

Livingston missing players

Hearts missing players

Livingston Hearts
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 6 3 Played P 2 8 16
3 1 1 Won W 0 2 7
4 1 1 Drew D 2 3 6
8 4 1 Lost L 0 3 3
12 5 3 Scored S 3 9 25
22 9 4 Conceded C 3 10 15
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
73% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 88%
47% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 38% 38%
13% 17% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 12% 12%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
40% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 56%
27% 17% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 31%
47% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 19%
 
3.5 4.7 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 7.5 4.8 5.4
6.1 5.3 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 6.4 5.5
2.4 2.5 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.9 1.6
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
7.6 10.2 7.7 Shots (avg) S ( 19 11.1 12.6
2.2 2.7 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.2 4.1
36% 31% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 35% 38%
 
14.5 13.2 17 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 15.5 13.6
4.5 4.2 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 5.2 4.9
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hearts have scored more than double the goals of Livingston.
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Livingston have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Livingston have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Premiership
  • Livingston have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Livingston 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 15 11 3 1 33 14 7 4 3 0 14 7 8 7 0 1 19 7 19 36
2 Celtic 15 10 2 3 33 10 8 6 2 0 21 2 7 4 0 3 12 8 23 32
3 Hearts 16 7 6 3 25 15 8 5 3 0 16 5 8 2 3 3 9 10 10 27
4 Dundee United 16 7 4 5 15 15 7 5 0 2 6 4 9 2 4 3 9 11 0 25
5 Motherwell 16 7 3 6 20 24 9 5 1 3 13 14 7 2 2 3 7 10 -4 24
6 Hibernian 14 5 3 6 17 18 7 3 1 3 9 9 7 2 2 3 8 9 -1 18
7 Aberdeen 16 5 3 8 18 21 8 4 1 3 9 7 8 1 2 5 9 14 -3 18
8 St. Mirren 16 3 8 5 16 24 8 1 4 3 6 8 8 2 4 2 10 16 -8 17
9 Dundee 15 4 4 7 15 27 9 3 3 3 12 15 6 1 1 4 3 12 -12 16
10 St. Johnstone 15 3 5 7 9 15 8 1 3 4 7 11 7 2 2 3 2 4 -6 14
11 Livingston 15 3 4 8 12 22 6 1 1 4 5 9 9 2 3 4 7 13 -10 13
12 Ross County 15 2 5 8 19 27 7 1 3 3 10 13 8 1 2 5 9 14 -8 11

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.