Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 2 October 2021
Result
Hearts 2-0 Motherwell
Premiership · Saturday 2 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: match report
Hearts beat Motherwell 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 2 October 2021. The half-time score was 2-0.
Liam Boyce opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Hearts's goals came from Liam Boyce (5', penalty) and Stephen Kingsley (22'). Motherwell did not score.
Discipline: Hearts received 3 yellow cards; Motherwell received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 15 points from 7 and Motherwell 4th on 14 points from 7. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 61 points, and Motherwell 6th with 46.
Hearts lined up in a 3-4-3 and Motherwell in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Craig Gordon of Hearts (8.7), ahead of Stephen Kingsley (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Hearts wins, 2 draws and 4 for Motherwell.
Going into the match Hearts's last five read W-D-D-W-D and Motherwell's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 5'Penalty goal · Liam Boyce
- 11'Yellow card · Juhani Ojala
- 18'Yellow card · L. Grimshaw
- 22'Goal · Stephen Kingsley
- 43'Yellow card · Cammy Devlin
- 55'Missed penalty · Liam Boyce
- 75'Yellow card · Taylor Moore
- 83'Yellow card · Beni Baningime
- 90+2'Yellow card · Nathan McGinley
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- David Devine
- Liam Donnelly
- Sondre Solholm Johansen
- Darragh O'Connor
- John Souttar
- Jamie Brandon
- Finlay Pollock
Hearts line-up (3-4-3)
Craig Gordon, Taylor Moore, Craig Halkett, Stephen Kingsley, Michael Smith, Beni Baningime, Cammy Devlin, Alex Cochrane, Barrie McKay, Liam Boyce, Ben Woodburn
Motherwell line-up (4-3-3)
Liam Kelly, Stephen O'Donnell, Bevis Mugabi, J. Ojala, N. McGinley, Liam Grimshaw, Callum Slattery, Mark O'Hara, Kaiyne Woolery, Tony Watt, Kevin van Veen