Hearts
- Hearts have won four of their last five matches in all competitions and are top of the Premiership 2025/2026 on 44 points from 20 games.
- Hearts are unbeaten in 10 home Premiership games in 2025-2026 with seven wins and three draws.
- Derek McInnes has taken time to make his mark on Hearts Of Midlothian FC, but the new boss is gradually instilling a disciplined, structure-first approach upon the Edinburgh club that has them winning the chess battle in recent weeks.
- Hearts bounced back from an away defeat to Hibernian with a solid 1-0 home win over Livingston last week.
- Lawrence Shankland is the main man up front for Hearts with ten Premiership goals in 19 appearances.
- McInnes has his team set up for transition and set-pieces, where the Jambos are a big threat.
St Mirren
- St Mirren have failed to win in their last five, with three draws and two defeats in that run.
- Stephen Robinson has done an equally good job at St Mirren since taking over in February 2022, building a side that can adapt on the fly and always remains well organised.
- St Mirren sit 10th in the Premiership 2025/2026 with 18 points from 19 and have had some moments of brilliance - such as their 6-5 League Cup thriller at Hearts four months ago.
- But they have failed to put together a consistent run of results and lack the consistency of finish to score enough goals to win games.
Head-to-Head
- While this is far from a classic rivalry, the respective styles of the two clubs should make for an interesting chess match on Wednesday.
- Both are highly organised and won’t leave space for each other to exploit, so it will be a battle of set-pieces and transition.
Key Players
- Lawrence Shankland is the main man up front for Hearts with ten Premiership goals in 19 appearances.
- Beni Baningime is the midfield general that makes Hearts tick.
- Mikael Mandron is the club’s top scorer with four in the league in 20 appearances, a modest return for a team’s leading forward.
- Goalkeeper Zach Hemming’s shot-stopping has kept them competitive despite their away defensive woes.
- Mark O’Hara is the kind of playmaker that can add steel to a midfield and make late runs to start St Mirren’s counter-attacks.
Betting Insights
- The Buddies have conceded 2.00 goals per game on average on their travels and scored just 1.00 per away game in the Premiership, so they look vulnerable here.
- But the hosts are the clear favorites at 1.37 with the visitors outsiders at 8.1 and the draw available at 4.6.
- Given Hearts are dominant at home and St Mirren rarely score on their away games, we think the odds for fewer than 2.5 goals at 1.95 look too attractive for this cagey affair.
Prediction
Hosts have the edge to beat the Buddies.
