📏 Form Guide

Hearts

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Hearts will be looking for a repeat result of a 1-3 Premiership triumph versus Ross County.

In that game, Hearts had 63% possession and 22 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Hearts, goals were scored by Lawrence Shankland (40', 58') and Alan Forrest (82'). On the other side, Ross County had 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Ronan Hale (26') was the scorer for Ross County.

Hearts have really struggled up front in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 against opponents during their previous 6 outings. In those games, Hearts have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 8. That aside, it remains to be seen whether that pattern shall be replicated in this game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Hearts:

• are unbeaten in the league by Motherwell in their last 2 matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Motherwell

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Motherwell will go into this meeting after a 1-2 Premiership win versus Dundee in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Motherwell managed 53% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Motherwell, the goals were scored by Tom Sparrow (59') and Tawanda Maswanhise (91'). Dundee had 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Antonio Portales (31') scored for Dundee.

The stats don’t lie, and Motherwell have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 11 goals in total. At the back, Motherwell seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Going into this one, Motherwell have not won against Hearts in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 03/09/2023 tells us that Hearts have won 3 of these and Motherwell 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 from The Jam Tarts and 5 being from The Steelmen. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The previous league match between the two was Premiership match day 33 on 12/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Motherwell 0-0 Hearts.

On that occasion, Motherwell managed 45% possession and 5 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

At the other end, Hearts got 12 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Kevin Clancy.

📋 Team News: Hearts

We think that The Jam Tarts should employ a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Craig Gordon, Adam Forrester, Frankie Kent, Craig Halkett, James Penrice, Beni Baningime, Blair Spittal, Kenneth Vargas, Jorge Grant, Alan Forrest and Lawrence Shankland.

📋 Team News: Motherwell

We reckon that The Steelmen might elect for a 4-4-1-1 system by sending out Aston Oxborough, Stephen O'Donnell, Dan Casey, Dominic Thompson, Steve Seddon, Tom Sparrow, Andrew Halliday, Lennon Miller, Harry Paton, Callum Slattery and Tony Watt.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Hearts are likely to be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

In contrast, Motherwell could well struggle finding the net themselves but we can see them getting the chances to score, too.

We’re therefore expecting to see a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Hearts at the conclusion of the game.

Victor Martins, 13:11 10/05/2025