The Premiership match at Tynecastle Park on Saturday sees hosts Hearts ready themselves for the visit of Kilmarnock.
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Form Guide
Hearts
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Hearts will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Ross County.
In that game, Hearts managed 65% possession and 21 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Hearts was Yutaro Oda (91'). Ross County got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Simon Murray (42', 49') scored 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 will go into this meeting after a 5-2 Premiership win with the eclipse of St Mirren in their last fixture.
In that match, Kilmarnock had 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Kilmarnock, goals were scored by Kyle Vassell (61', 73'), Daniel Armstrong (65'), Marley Watkins (68') and David Watson (79'). On the other side, St Mirren got 7 shots at goal with 2 of them 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.
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Head to head
Looking at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 09/10/2022 shows us that Hearts have won 3 of these games and Kilmarnock 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.
A sum of 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 of them from The Jam Tarts and 6 netted by Killie. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.
The last league fixture featuring these sides was Premiership match day 15 on 02/12/2023 when it ended Kilmarnock 0-1 Hearts.
That day, Kilmarnock had 52% possession and 16 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Will Dennis (18' Own goal).
For their opponents, Hearts got 11 shots on goal with 1 on target.
The referee was David Dickinson.
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Team News: Hearts
Craig Halkett (Knee problems) and Peter Haring (Knee surgery) will not be able to play for Hearts boss Steven Naismith.
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Team News: Kilmarnock
Thanks to a completely injury-free group available for selection, the Kilmarnock manager Derek McInnes has no fitness worries to report ahead of this match.
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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.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins,
01:02 29/03/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Hearts
Formed: 1874
Stadium: Tynecastle Park (19,852)
Captain: Craig Gordon
Chairman: Ann Budge
Manager: Steven Naismith
Competitions: Premiership position 3, Scottish Cup (Semi-Finals), Conference League Qualifiers (Play Off Round)
⭐ Key Player: Kenneth Vargas
Mostly taking to the field in the Right Wing position, Kenneth Vargas was born in San José, Costa Rica. After having played his first senior match for Hearts in the 2023 - 2024 season, the skilful Forward has hit 4 league goals in the Premiership 2023 - 2024 season to date in a total of 26 appearances.