Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 17 February 2024

Result

Hearts 2-0 Motherwell

Premiership · Saturday 17 February 2024, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Hearts · Motherwell · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: match report

Hearts beat Motherwell 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 17 February 2024. The half-time score was 0-0.

Lawrence Shankland opened the scoring in the 67th minute. Hearts's goals came from Lawrence Shankland (67') and Kenneth Vargas (90+2'). Motherwell did not score.

Discipline: Hearts received 1 yellow card; Motherwell received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 48 points from 25 and Motherwell 7th on 26 points from 25. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 68 points, and Motherwell 8th with 43.

Hearts lined up in a 3-5-2 and Motherwell in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Frankie Kent of Hearts (8.5), ahead of Stephen Kingsley (8.1).

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 W-W-W-W-W and Motherwell's D-W-D-D-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · Lawrence ShanklandHearts
  • 24'Yellow card · Stuart KettlewellMotherwell
  • 67'Goal · Lawrence ShanklandHearts · 1-0
  • 69'Yellow card · Davor ZdravkovskiMotherwell
  • 88'Yellow card · Sam NicholsonMotherwell
  • 90+2'Goal · Kenneth VargasHearts · 2-0

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Hearts line-up (3-5-2)

Zander Clark, Stephen Kingsley, Frankie Kent, Kye Rowles, Dexter Lembikisa, Calem Nieuwenhof, S. Fraser, Beni Baningime, Alex Cochrane, Lawrence Shankland, Alan Forrest

Motherwell line-up (3-5-2)

Liam Kelly, Paul McGinn, Bevis Mugabi, Dan Casey, Adam Devine, Lennon Miller, Davor Zdravkovski, Georgie Gent, Harry Paton, Jack Vale, Theo Bair