Hearts 2-2 Inverness CT: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 18 August 2012

Result

Hearts 2-2 Inverness CT

Premiership · Saturday 18 August 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Hearts · Inverness CT · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-2 Inverness CT: match report

Hearts drew with Inverness CT 2-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 18 August 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Arvydas Novikovas opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Hearts's goals came from Arvydas Novikovas (15') and John Sutton (41', penalty). Inverness CT scored through Andrew Shinnie (58', penalty) and C. Pepper (90+4').

Discipline: Hearts received 3 yellow cards; Inverness CT received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Hearts were 2nd on 4 points from 2 and Inverness CT 6th on 2 points from 2. Hearts went on to finish that season 9th with 44 points, and Inverness CT 4th with 54.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Hearts wins, 3 draws and 1 for Inverness CT.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Arvydas NovikovasHearts · 1-0
  • 31'Yellow card · Andrew ShinnieInverness CT
  • 33'Yellow card · Darren BarrHearts
  • 40'Yellow card · Simon KingInverness CT
  • 41'Penalty goal · John SuttonHearts · 2-0
  • 45+2'Red card · Richie ForanInverness CT
  • 58'Penalty goal · Andrew ShinnieInverness CT · 2-1
  • 58'Yellow card · Callum PatersonHearts
  • 60'Yellow card · R. DraperInverness CT
  • 67'Yellow card · Graeme ShinnieInverness CT
  • 81'Yellow card · John SuttonHearts
  • 90+4'Goal · C. PepperInverness CT · 2-2

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Hearts 5, draws 3, Inverness CT 1.

Team news

Hearts line-up

Jamie MacDonald, Daniel Grainger, Ryan McGowan, Andy Webster, Marius Zaliukas, Mehdi Taouil, Andy Driver, Arvydas Novikovas, Callum Paterson, Darren Barr, John Sutton

Inverness CT line-up

Ryan Esson, David Raven, Gary Warren, Simon King, Graeme Shinnie, Ross Draper, Andrew Shinnie, Aaron Doran, Billy McKay, Shane Sutherland, Richie Foran