Motherwell (Home)
- With Hearts Of Midlothian FC top of the Premiership Championship Round table on 76 points from 35 matches, and Motherwell 4th on 57 from 35 matches, both sides know that the stakes are high in Saturday’s Championship Round clash.
- Jens Berthel Askou’s side are on a wobbling form streak after claiming 1 win, 1 draw, and 3 defeats from their last 5 games in the Championship Round.
- The Well were superb in their 3-2 road win over Glasgow Rangers FC nine days ago, but that was followed by a 1-0 defeat at Falkirk FC three days ago.
Hearts (Away)
- Hearts will be the last team that Motherwell want to face right now, given that Derek McInnes’ men arrive here off the back of a 3-match winning streak, including a 2-1 home win over Rangers and a 2-1 victory away at Hibernian FC in the game before that.
- Hearts have won 9, drawn 3, and lost 5 of their 17 away league games this season.
Head-to-Head
- Motherwell are winless in their last 2 home games against Hearts.
- Hearts have the more impressive form, the dominance in the last 5 head-to-head matchups(W2, D3) and the superiority in the table, so we’re siding with them to take all 3 points from a competitive matchup.
Key Players
- Askou’s men like to play proactively in a high-tempo style, counter-pressing whenever they lose the ball and making the game dynamic with their wide players.
- In their 3-5-2 setup, Hearts have the option to sit in a compact 3-4-2-1 system when out of possession, or to push their wing backs forward to create overloads in wide areas and allow Lawrence Shankland a platform to find the gap between the lines.
- Shankland has scored 3 of Hearts’ last 8 Premiership goals in his last 5 appearances, so he will be a main threat on Saturday.
Betting Insights
Both teams to score is favored at 1.63 for this Championship Round encounter, which is very heavy given that both sides will be desperate to get back to a winning streak after last week’s disappointing results.
Prediction
Emmanuel Longelo is a lethal predator for Motherwell at the other end, with him hitting 2 goals in his last 2 league games and 3 in his last 6 overall , so we’re taking a Hearts win and both teams to get a goal .
