Hearts vs St Johnstone Prediction: Home team to secure a victory

This week's round of fixtures in the Scottish Premiership takes place at Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh and features a matchup between Hearts and St. Johnstone. The odds favor Hearts to win despite suffering a humiliating loss at the hands of Motherwell in their most recent match, but St. Johnstone's most recent match against St. Mirren ended in a draw.

The last time Hearts played in the Premiership, they lost 2-0 to Motherwell. Tonight, they will try to get back on track by playing better. During that game, Hearts controlled possession for 67% of the time and had 12 shots on goal, with only three of them finding the target. On the other hand, Motherwell had 13 shots on goal, with only three of them actually hitting the target. Motherwell got goals from Jonathan Obika in the 40th minute and Blair Spittal in the 46th minute. In recent Hearts games, there has been an unusually high amount of scores of 0. This has become a repeating theme. If you take their prior six matches leading up to this one, a bet on both teams scoring would have been a losing one in as many as five of those matches before they got to this one. Prior to this matchup, St. Johnstone had not been able to defeat Hearts in the league in either of their most recent two matchups.

St. Johnstone and St. Mirren played each other to a 1-1 draw in their most recent Premiership match. Throughout that match, St. Johnstone had 48% of the possession and fired six times on goal, with only two of those shots finding the target. Zak Rudden was the lone player from St. Johnstone to make it onto the scoresheet in the 75 minutes. St. Mirren, the team that they were playing against, had 20 shots on goal, with only four of them hitting the target. St. Mirren got their goal in the 86th minute from Alex Gogi. Taking a look at their recent form, we can see that St. Johnstone has allowed opponents to score in 5 of their previous 6 matches, for a total of 9 goals scored by rival teams. As a result, St. Johnstone needs to work on improving some of their deficiencies in the back. The form guide for the upcoming match reveals that St. Johnstone has not been victorious over Hearts in either of the last two league matches that were played away from their home venue. Also, they are unbeaten in their most recent two league matches played away from their home stadium.

Coming into this match, neither of the teams is playing at their greatest level. With Hearts currently in third place in the league, hoping to secure their spot in the championship group, and also having the possibility of playing in European football, we are confident that they will be able to suppress the pressure that St. Johnstone applies, control the tempo and possession of this match, and get what we anticipate to be a victory by a narrow margin. In addition, there is no question that goals will be a prominent element of this match because the defenses of both teams are not strong enough and the exceptional attacking players on both teams have the ability to penetrate well in this match.