📏 Form Guide

Ross County

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Ross County will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-0 Premiership defeat last time out to Kilmarnock.

In that game, Ross County managed 58% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Kilmarnock got 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. Bruce Anderson (36') and Liam Donnelly (69') scored for Kilmarnock.

A recurring trait of more recent Ross County games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

From their previous 6 clashes leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on BTTS would have been a loser.

Leading up to this clash, Ross County:

• have not won against Hearts in their previous 3 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Hearts

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Dundee in Premiership competition, Hearts and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Hearts managed 74% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. At the other end, Dundee got 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Simon Murray (38') scored for Dundee.

It has become apparent that Hearts have had real problems scoring goals in their past 6 encounters, contributing the poor return of just 3. In those matches, The Jam Tarts have also seen the collective goal aggregate of their opponents equal 7. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Taking a look at their past results, Hearts:

• are winless against Ross County in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 30/09/2023 shows us that Ross County have won 1 of these games & Hearts 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A sum of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for The Staggies and 9 created by The Jam Tarts. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league game between these clubs was Premiership match day 30 on 15/03/2025 when it finished Hearts 2-0 Ross County.

That day, Hearts had 63% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goalscorers were Elton Kabangu (26') and Jorge Grant (89').

At the other end, Ross County had 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Calum Scott.

ℹ️ Team News: Hearts

Hearts boss Liam Fox has not got a full squad to pick from. Gerald Taylor (Knee injury), Stephen Kingsley (Hamstring muscle injury) and Frankie Kent (Torn muscle bundle) won’t be making appearances.

🧠 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ross County may well find it hard to score goals against this Hearts side who we think should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore tipping a very competitive game with a 0-1 win for Hearts after 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 13:19 03/05/2025