About Match
12 points for Hearts (3rd), 1 for Kilmarnock (12th): an 11-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Hearts 2.4 scored and 1 conceded per game, Kilmarnock 0.8 and 2.8, with the league averaging 1.3. Victory would move Hearts to 15 points and up to 2nd, with other results unchanged.
Five consecutive wins precede this game for Hearts, having scored in 9 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Hearts hold 15 points of 15 and Kilmarnock 5.
GioScore's database holds 40 meetings between the two: 13 for Hearts, 18 for Kilmarnock and 9 drawn, at 2.35 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 35% of the wins in this matchup.
Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh stages the fixture, a ground that holds 19,852.




