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Alloa Athletic vs Hearts Live Stream, Predictions
The Championship match at Indodrill Stadium on Saturday sees home side Alloa Athletic prepare for the visit of Hearts.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Alloa Athletic v Hearts game including the latest game odds.
📏 Form Guide
Alloa Athletic
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Alloa Athletic enter this fixture following a 1-1 Championship drawn game versus Greenock Morton.
The only name on the scoresheet from Alloa Athletic was Robert Thomson (83'). Markus Fjørtoft (69') was the scorer for Greenock Morton.
It’s not been often in recent times that Alloa Athletic have shown defensive steel. The facts show that The Wasps have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 12 goals along the way. That being said, time will tell if such a trend will be maintained here in this game or not.
Hearts
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Since a loss in their previous game against Dundee in Championship action, Hearts and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
The only player to score from Hearts was Andy Irving (56'). Jordan McGhee (14'), Danny Mullen (36') and Jonathan Afolabi (84') scored for Dundee.
Proving their predisposition for productive matches, goals have been scored 31 times in the previous 6 matches in which Hearts have taken to the pitch, making it an average of 5.17 goals per clash. Opposition teams have managed 11 of these goals.
👥 Head to head
Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 11/10/2014 shows us that Alloa Athletic have won 1 of them & Hearts 5, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.
A sum of 15 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 2 from The Wasps and 13 netted by The Jam Tarts. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.
ℹ️ Team News: Alloa Athletic
Alloa Athletic manager Peter Grant will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available to choose from.
📋 Team News: Hearts
Thanks to a largely available group of players, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Hearts boss Robbie Neilson to be concerned about. John Souttar (Achilles tendon rupture) misses out for this game.
⚡ Prediction
We’re inclined to think that Alloa Athletic are capable enough to put one past this Hearts team, although one goal is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.
Our tip is for both teams to score in a 1-2 win for Hearts at the end of the 90 minutes. It should be a decent one.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 00:09 12/01/2021

🏟️ Team Focus:
Alloa Athletic
Formed: 1878
Stadium: Indodrill Stadium (3,100)
Captain: Andy Graham
Chairman: Mike Mulraney
Manager: Peter Grant
Competitions: Championship position 9
⭐ Key Man: Alan Trouten

Usually playing in the Right Wing position, Alan Trouten was born in Rutherglen, Scotland. Having made his senior debut playing for Queen's Park in the 2003 - 2004 season, the gifted Forward has hit 2 league goals in this Championship 2020 - 2021 campaign so far in 7 appearances.
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10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 24 | WWWWL |
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11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 20 | LDWDD |
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11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | DDWWW |
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11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | -3 | 16 | WWDDD |
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9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 | LDDWL |
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11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | DLLDL |
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9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | WWDLD |
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11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -12 | 10 | LLLWW |
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11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -14 | 8 | WWLLD |
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10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | -10 | 5 | LLWLL |
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Goals scored | 1.5 |
Goals conceded | 2.7 |
Time first goal scored | 59 |
Time first goal conceded | 31 |
Yellow cards | 0.7 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 1.8 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-2 |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 1.2 |
Time first goal scored | 62 |
Time first goal conceded | 32 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 2.5 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-1 |
Robert Thomson | 3 |
Liam Buchanan | 2 |
Kevin Cawley | 2 |
Alan Trouten | 2 |
Steven Hetherington | 1 |
Liam Boyce | 5 |
Steven Naismith | 5 |
Stephen Kingsley | 4 |
Jamie Walker | 3 |
Craig Wighton | 3 |
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