Hearts vs Celtic: Match preview, head-to-head, predicted line-ups, team news, prediction

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Hearts vs Celtic: Match preview, head-to-head, predicted line-ups, team news, prediction

Heart of Midlothian host Celtic at Tynecastle Park in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday afternoon.

Hearts grounded out a 2-0 home victory against St.Mirren in their last league outing, before losing to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup on penalties.

Celtic claimed a 1-0 win at Falkirk in the league, before beating Auchinleck Talbot in the Scottish Cup and playing out a 2-2 draw at Bologna in the UEFA Europa League.

Match preview​

Hearts head into the fixture looking to extend their six-point lead over second-placed Celtic.

The leaders have yet to lose on their patch in the league this season and boast the best home record in the division, collecting 27 points from 11 games.

The Jambos will be aiming to make history here by beating the defending champions three consecutive times in a league season for the first time.

Celtic remain unbeaten under Martin O’Neill, who is in his second spell as manager this season.

After losing six out of eight games under former manager Wilfried Nancy, the Hoops are now undefeated in their last four fixtures and will arrive for this clash with confidence.

Celtic have lost four times on the road in the league this term and will have to arrest their erratic away form to prevent setting an unwanted history.

Team news​

Hearts will be without Lawrence Shankland, Cameron Devlin, Oisin McEntee, Calem Nieuwenhof, Finlay Pollock, Ageu, Stephen Kingsley, and Beni Baningime.

The visitors will also be missing Jota, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Callum Osmand, Kelechi Iheanacho, and Marcelo Saracchi.

Head-to-head​

Across 65 Scottish Premiership matches at Tynecastle Park, Hearts have claimed 17 wins, Celtic 34, while 14 ended in draws.

Predicted line-ups​

Hearts (4-2-3-1): Alexander Schwolow, Michael Steinwender, Craig Halkett, Stuart Findlay, Harry Milne, Tomas Magnusson, Marc Leonard, Blair Spittal, Alexandros Kyziridis, Claudio Braga, Islam Chesnokov.

Celtic (4-2-3-1): Kasper Schmeichel, Kieran Tierney, Liam Scales, Auston Trusty, Colby Donovan, Callum McGregor, Arne Engels, Sebastian Tounekti, Reo Hatate, Yang Hyun-Jun, Daizen Maeda.

Prediction​

We predict a 2-1 win for Celtic.

Stats from whoscored.com, transfermarkt.com & who scored com

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