Hearts vs Aberdeen Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Hearts

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Hearts, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-0 Premiership triumph versus St Mirren.

In that match, Hearts had 68% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Hearts was Barrie McKay (29'). For their opponents, St Mirren had 19 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

Hearts haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net in each and every one of their last 6 games.

They’ve claimed a sum of 13 during that period and have conceded a total of 6. We will just have to find out if that trend can be sustained here.

Ahead of this meeting, Hearts are undefeated in their previous 5 home league matches.

Aberdeen

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Rangers in League Cup action, Aberdeen will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Aberdeen was Bojan Miovski (41'). Ryan Jack (61') and Kemar Roofe (94') scored for Rangers. The game was won by Rangers in extra time.

Jim Goodwin's Aberdeen have fired home a total of 7 times throughout their previous six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during that period comes to 10.

Their prior results show that Aberdeen:

• have not won against Hearts when having played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• have not won away from home in their last 4 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 25/09/2019 tells us that Hearts have won 1 of them & Aberdeen 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 15 goals were produced between them in these games, with 7 for The Jam Tarts and 8 belonging to The Dons. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league clash featuring the two was Premiership match day 11 on 16/10/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Aberdeen 2-0 Hearts.

In that match, Aberdeen had 41% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. The goals were scored by Duk (74') and Vicente Besuijen (79').

At the other end, Hearts got 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The referee was Don Robertson.

📋 Team News: Hearts

Craig Gordon (Fractured Leg), Peter Haring (Concussion), Gary Mackay-Steven (Fractured Foot), Beni Baningime (Cruciate Ligament Injury), Liam Boyce (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Craig Halkett (Cruciate Ligament Injury) will not be able to play for Hearts manager Robbie Neilson.

ℹ️ Team News: Aberdeen

Owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin does not have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

Here is a game where Aberdeen will have their work cut out to get anything against this Hearts outfit who we think will score one, at least.

We’re going for a good battle with a 1-0 winning margin for Hearts at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be a close one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 01:00 14/01/2023