📊 Form Guide

Hearts

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Hearts will be hoping for a better result following a 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Ross County.

In that match, Hearts managed 65% possession and 21 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hearts was Yutaro Oda (91'). Ross County got 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. Simon Murray (42', 49') was the scorer for Ross County.

Steven Naismith's Hearts have found the net 7 times in their past 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that have been scored against them in those games amounts to 8.

Pre-game facts show that Hearts:

• haven't lost in the league to Kilmarnock in their last 2 matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 7 home league matches.

Kilmarnock

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Kilmarnock come into this game following on from a 5-2 Premiership win with the eclipse of St Mirren in their last game.

In that game, Kilmarnock had 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Kilmarnock, goals were scored by Kyle Vassell (61', 73'), Daniel Armstrong (65'), Marley Watkins (68') and David Watson (79'). For their opponents, St Mirren had 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. Charles Dunne (20') and Mikael Mandron (39') scored for St Mirren.

Over the course of their last half-dozen clashes, Kilmarnock have helped themselves to the sum of 12 goals. Kilmarnock have also scored on each one of those occasions. During that period, their defenders have had 10 goals go against them. Having said that, we must now wait to see if the trend will be maintained in this upcoming match or not.

Looking at their past form shows that Kilmarnock:

• have not registered a win against Hearts in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 09/10/2022 tells us that Hearts have won 3 of these & Kilmarnock 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.

An aggregate of 15 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from The Jam Tarts and 6 being from Killie. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Premiership match day 15 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was Kilmarnock 0-1 Hearts.

That time, Kilmarnock had 52% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Will Dennis (18' Own goal).

Hearts got 11 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was David Dickinson.

ℹ️ Team News: Hearts

Craig Halkett (Knee problems) and Peter Haring (Knee surgery) won’t be available for Hearts boss Steven Naismith.

It’s our opinion that The Jam Tarts could opt for a 3-5-2 system for this one, handing starts to Alexander Clark, Toby Sibbick, Stephen Kingsley, Kye Rowles, Nathaniel Atkinson, Aidan Denholm, Beni Baningime, Kenneth Vargas, Alex Cochrane, Lawrence Shankland and Alan Forrest.

🗞️ Team News: Kilmarnock

Owing to a fully healthy group available for selection, the Kilmarnock manager Derek McInnes doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.

It’s our belief that Killie seem most likely to elect for a 3-5-2 system using Will Dennis, Joe Wright, Robbie Deas, Stuart Findlay, Daniel Armstrong, David Watson, Liam Polworth, Liam Donnelly, Matthew Kennedy, Marley Watkins and Kyle Vassell.

⚡ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Kilmarnock will need to apply a lot of pressure to be putting a goal past this Hearts outfit who we think will score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 1-0 advantage for Hearts at the end of the 90.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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Victor Martins, 14:05 30/03/2024