About Match
Hearts go into the game 3rd in the table on 12 points; Aberdeen sit 10th on 4 — an 8-point gap. Per game in the league, Hearts score 2.4 and conceding 1, Aberdeen 0.4 and 1.4, against a competition average of 1.3 goals per team per game. Hearts would climb to 15 points with a win and up to 2nd (other results held equal).
Hearts enter with five wins in a row, having scored in 9 consecutive games. Hearts have banked 15 of the last 15 points on offer; Aberdeen, 5.
40 meetings are on record — 14 won by Hearts, 17 by Aberdeen, 9 drawn, at 2.3 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 63% of the meetings.
The venue is Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh, with room for 19,852 spectators.