Hearts vs Dundee - prediction, team news, lineups

Heart of Midlothian big Dundee Football Club successful the Scottish Premiership astatine Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh, connected Sunday.

Kick-off is scheduled for 3pm, with Wouter Vrancken's fourth-placed Jambos looking to physique connected a tally of 7 matches unbeaten crossed each competitions and Steven Pressley's sixth-placed Dark Blues aiming to extremity an away-day hoodoo astatine Tynecastle.

Both sides get disconnected the backmost of midweek derbies, Hearts having beaten Hibernian 3-1 astatine Easter Road and Dundee having drawn 1-1 with St Johnstone successful the Tayside derby astatine Dens Park.

Match preview

Hearts beryllium 4th successful the Scottish Premiership array with 9 points from 4 matches aft James Wilson, Laurent Mendy and Josh McPake struck successful a 3-1 triumph astatine Hibernian connected Thursday.

Vrancken's reign began with 4 consecutive defeats, including a 6-0 aggregate exit to Sturm Graz successful Champions League qualifying, a 2-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Aberdeen connected the opening time and a 6-1 first-leg hammering by Benfica successful the Europa League qualifiers, but Hearts person since gone 7 matches unbeaten successful each competitions.

That turnaround began with a 4-0 rout of Dundee United, Tom Renaud's long-range onslaught and a Calvin Miller punishment settling the contention wrong the opening 12 minutes earlier Claudio Braga and McPake added further goals.

Hearts past required a punishment shoot-out to spot disconnected Rapid Vienna connected August 26, winning 4-3 connected spot kicks aft a 4-4 aggregate gully contempt Tomas Magnusson's second-half reddish card, to publication a instrumentality to the UEFA Conference League league phase.

Braga remains cardinal to the Vrancken task and was again progressive successful the derby win, with the nine besides handing debuts to deadline-day arrivals Leart Kabashi and Aron Benjaminsen arsenic their squad continues to evolve.

Hearts person won their past 9 location league games and swept each 3 league meetings with Dundee past season, a grounds that has Tynecastle buzzing up of Sunday's visit.

Dundee beryllium sixth with 7 points from 5 matches, a constrictive 1-0 decision to champions Celtic connected the opening time preceding back-to-back 2-0 wins implicit Aberdeen and rivals Dundee United successful the derby.

Joe Westley has scored some of Dundee's league goals this season, opening the scoring successful the triumph implicit Aberdeen earlier netting a stoppage-time consolation successful a 2-1 decision to Hibernian astatine Dens Park past Sunday.

Pressley's broadside salvaged a constituent successful a 1-1 gully with St Johnstone successful Wednesday's Tayside derby, a lucifer Dundee led earlier conceding successful wounded time.

The caput coach, a erstwhile Hearts skipper who made much than 250 appearances for the Gorgie nine and lifted the Scottish Cup determination successful 2006, made 3 changes for the St Johnstone draw, with Bradley Fink handed his archetypal league commencement successful spot of Alan Forrest.

Dundee person a wont of springing surprises connected the road, having ended a 21-year winless tally astatine Tannadice with 3 consecutive wins implicit Dundee United and claiming a archetypal Pittodrie triumph successful 22 years earlier this year.

Pressley, whose erstwhile relation was caput of idiosyncratic subordinate improvement astatine English Premier League nine Brentford, has stressed that his players person shown earlier they tin execute astatine daunting distant venues, and Tynecastle is adjacent connected that list.

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Team News

Blair Spittal is simply a uncertainty aft leaving Easter Road successful a satellite footwear and connected crutches, though Vrancken said aft the derby triumph that helium does not judge the wounded is excessively serious.

Tom Renaud is retired with an ankle wounded sustained during the play-off triumph implicit Rapid Vienna, portion Malachi Fagan-Walcott has not yet returned to afloat grooming and Ageu remains sidelined by a longer-term issue.

Christian Borchgrevink, missing since a musculus wounded past month, was again absent for the Hibernian trip, with Jamie McCart continuing astatine left-back successful his place.

Tomas Magnusson was an unused substitute against Hibernian alternatively than suspended, and offers Vrancken screen successful cardinal midfield, with American guardant JJ Williams, who made a 20-minute cameo astatine Easter Road, besides pushing for involvement.

Simon Murray has been ruled out, portion Ashley Hay and Imari Samuels person some been targeting a instrumentality this period having missed caller fixtures.

Westley picked up a sound of his ain successful the triumph implicit Aberdeen but has continued to feature, scoring again successful the decision to Hibernian.

Owen Goodman has retained the goalkeeper's jersey passim the campaign, down a defence built astir Ryan Astley and summertime signing Owen Bevan.

Fink's archetypal league commencement against St Johnstone suggests Pressley is consenting to freshen his attacking options for a investigating travel to Edinburgh.

Hearts imaginable starting lineup:

Reus; Altena, Findlay, McEntee, McCart; Mendy, Magnusson; McPake, Braga, Miller; Wilson

Dundee imaginable starting lineup:

Goodman; Halliday, Astley, O. Bevan, Odutayo; Hamilton, Finnigan, J. Bevan, Forest; Wales, Westley

We say: Hearts 2-1 Dundee

Hearts' grounds of 9 consecutive location league wins, allied to Braga's power and the assurance generated by the Hibernian derby win, should beryllium capable to spot disconnected a Dundee broadside who person shown they tin vie but conceded precocious successful each of their past 2 matches.

Pressley's men person the away-day pedigree to marque this uncomfortable and Westley offers a extremity menace connected existent form, but Tynecastle's caller grounds against Dundee, six cleanable sheets successful the past 10 meetings and a cleanable expanse past season, points to different day of vexation for the visitors.

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