Kilmarnock vs Hearts Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Kilmarnock

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Kilmarnock will be looking for another win after a 0-2 Premiership success versus St Johnstone.

In that game, Kilmarnock had 46% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Kilmarnock, goals were scored by Joe Wright (23') and Marley Watkins (81'). St Johnstone had 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

Kilmarnock have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have claimed a sum of 12 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 8.

Hearts

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Rangers in Scottish Cup action, Hearts and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Cyriel Dessers (5', 78') was the scorer for Rangers.

The stats don’t lie, and Hearts have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in all. In defence, Hearts have not been doing too well. That sort of pattern might not be carried forward into this match, though.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 17/12/2022 shows that Kilmarnock have won 1 of these games and Hearts 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

A sum of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 of them from Killie and 8 for The Jam Tarts. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Premiership match day 31 on 30/03/2024 which ended up with the score at Hearts 1-1 Kilmarnock.

On that occasion, Hearts had 61% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Kenneth Vargas (10').

For their opponents, Kilmarnock got 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Marley Watkins (67') was the scorer.

The referee was Willie Collum.

📋 Team News: Kilmarnock

The Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

In all likelihood, Killie could use the 3-5-2 system, utilising Will Dennis, Lewis Mayo, Joe Wright, Stuart Findlay, Daniel Armstrong, David Watson, Liam Donnelly, Liam Polworth, Matthew Kennedy, Marley Watkins and Kyle Vassell.

🗞️ Team News: Hearts

Hearts boss Steven Naismith has multiple availability issues to deal with. Craig Halkett (Knee problems), Peter Haring (Knee surgery) and Calem Nieuwenhof (Hamstring strain) won’t be making appearances.

We believe The Jam Tarts appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Craig Gordon, Nathaniel Atkinson, Frankie Kent, Kye Rowles, Alex Cochrane, Beni Baningime, Cameron Devlin, Yutaro Oda, Jorge Grant, Barrie McKay and Lawrence Shankland.

✨ Prediction

We believe that Hearts will really need to work well to find the net against this Kilmarnock side who we think should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’re therefore tipping a narrow 1-0 winning score for Kilmarnock at the conclusion of the game.

Should be a close one.

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Andre Moura, 08:24 27/04/2024