Hearts 1-0 Motherwell: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 9 December 2017

Result

Hearts 1-0 Motherwell

Premiership · Saturday 9 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Hearts · Motherwell · Premiership predictions

Hearts 1-0 Motherwell: match report

Hearts defeated Motherwell 1-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 9 December 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Kyle Lafferty of Hearts in the 39th minute.

Discipline: Hearts received no yellow cards; Motherwell received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 6th on 18 points from 16 and Motherwell 5th on 23 points from 15. Hearts went on to finish that season 6th with 49 points, and Motherwell 7th with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Hearts wins, 1 draw and 4 for Motherwell.

Going into the match Hearts's last five read D-D-D-L-L and Motherwell's L-D-W-L-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Yellow card · C. KipréMotherwell
  • 39'Goal · Kyle LaffertyHearts · 1-0
  • 85'Yellow card · Richard TaitMotherwell

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 5, draws 1, Motherwell 4.

Team news

Hearts line-up

Jon McLaughlin, Michael Smith, John Souttar, Connor Randall, Prince Bauben, Arnaud Djoum, D. Cowie, Lewis Moore, Jamie Walker, Kyle Lafferty, Christophe Berra

Motherwell line-up

Russell Griffiths, Richard Tait, Chris Cadden, Charles Dunne, Cédric Kipré, Edi Murtado, Elliott Frear, Allan Campbell, R. Bowman, Alex Fisher, Andrew Rose