📊 Form Guide

Hearts

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Hearts will play in this game following a 0-0 Premiership stalemate versus Motherwell.

In that game, Hearts had 45% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. Motherwell had 9 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

Derek McInnes's Hearts have found the net a sum total of 10 times over their preceding 6 outings. The corresponding tally of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures stands at 5.

Looking at their past form shows that Hearts:

• have not been beaten in the league by Kilmarnock in their previous 3 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 9 league matches at home. It's been impressive.

Kilmarnock

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In the game prior to this, Kilmarnock drew 1-1 in the Premiership tie with Dundee United.

In that game, Kilmarnock had 46% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Kilmarnock was Bruce Anderson (34'). On the other side, Dundee United had 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Craig Sibbald (63') scored for Dundee United.

It is worth noting that Kilmarnock have made hard work of scoring goals in their past 6 encounters, netting the disappointing return of only 3. In those matches, Killie have also seen the collective goal tally of opposing teams equal 14. That kind of trend won’t necessarily follow through into this game, however.

Coming into this fixture, Kilmarnock are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings going back to 27/04/2024 shows that Hearts have won 3 of these games & Kilmarnock 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A sum of 13 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for The Jam Tarts and 5 coming from Killie. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Premiership match day 8 on 18/10/2025 when the final score was Kilmarnock 0-3 Hearts.

That day, Kilmarnock managed 41% possession and 7 shots on goal with 2 on target.

At the other end, Hearts had 19 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Craig Halkett (19') and Braga (57', 61') scored.

The match was refereed by Ross Hardie.

ℹ️ Team News: Hearts

Beni Baningime (Hamstring injury), Calem Nieuwenhof (Hamstring injury), Finlay Pollock (Hamstring injury) and Ageu (Hamstring injury) won’t be available for Hearts boss Derek McInnes.

📋 Team News: Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock boss Stuart Kettlewell has not got a full squad to pick from. Matty Kennedy (Hip injury) and Djenairo Daniels (Knee injury) are not ready for selection.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Kilmarnock should have enough to score against this Hearts side, although that possibly won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Hearts after 90 minutes. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Andre Moura, 19:03 03/12/2025