Hearts vs Dundee United - prediction, team news, lineups

Hearts invited Dundee United to Tynecastle Park connected Sunday day for a matchday 2 clash successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts mislaid 2-1 to Aberdeen successful their opening league game, portion the visitors drew 1-1 with Rangers successful their archetypal league fixture.

Match preview

Hearts devastatingly missed retired connected the Scottish Premiership rubric connected the last time of 2025-26, arsenic Celtic clinched the rubric with a 3-1 triumph against the Jambos astatine Celtic Park. 

The atrocious quality has continued for the Jambos passim the summer, with manager Derek McInnes, Lawrence Shankland and Cameron Devlin each departing to articulation Rangers, portion Hearts person endured a disastrous commencement to the caller season.

The Jambos, nether Wouter Vrancken's management, person mislaid each of their archetypal 4 competitory fixtures, including suffering elimination from the Champions League qualifiers aft losing 6-0 connected aggregate to Sturm Graz and being connected the verge of elimination from the Europa League qualifiers pursuing a 6-1 first-leg decision to Benfica successful the 3rd qualifying round.

Vrancken volition beryllium hopeless to yet enactment an extremity to their losing streak erstwhile they instrumentality to Tynecastle Park connected Sunday to look Dundee United, who the Jambos person defeated successful 2 of their past 3 meetings.

Meanwhile, Dundee United spell into the Scottish Premiership's 2nd matchday having experienced an encouraging commencement to the caller season. 

The Tangerines started the 2026-27 run by finishing apical of Scottish League Cup Group B with 3 wins and 1 defeat, including commanding victories implicit Arbroath (3-0) and The Spartans (4-0), mounting up a second-round clash with Celtic. 

Jim Goodwin's broadside followed that up with a 1-1 gully against Rangers successful their opening Scottish Premiership fixture, with summertime signing Lachlan Rose opening the scoring earlier Thelo Aasgaard equalised conscionable earlier the hr mark. 

Goodwin volition instrumentality plentifulness of encouragement from that effect and performance, which saw the Tangerines make 1.64 expected goals (xG) to Rangers' 1.46xG, and the manager volition beryllium hoping his squad tin physique connected that with different beardown show and triumph connected Sunday.

Dundee United person mislaid 2 of their past 3 meetings with Hearts, but they volition gully assurance from their caller grounds astatine Tynecastle, having avoided decision successful their past 3 distant clashes with the Jambos, including 2 wins successful that time.

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Team News

Hearts volition beryllium without Stuart Findlay, who was fixed a reddish paper successful the opening league crippled against Aberdeen, portion Christian Borchgrevink, Stephen Kingsley, Craig Halkett and Ageu are each retired with injuries. 

Following the crushing 6-1 decision to Benfica past clip out, Vrancken could look to sanction respective changes connected Sunday, meaning the likes of Jamie McCart, Severin Sabri Guendouz and Tomas Magnusson could start.

Dundee United volition beryllium incapable to telephone upon the services of Miller Thomson owed to an ankle injury, portion Bert Esselink whitethorn besides beryllium a uncertainty aft coming disconnected with an wounded interest successful the archetypal league fixture against Rangers. 

Iurie Iovu could, therefore, spouse Michael Forbes successful cardinal defence, portion an different unchanged squad from the opening play could beryllium named.

Hearts imaginable starting lineup:

Reus; Altena, McCart, McEntee, Milne; Guendouz, Renaud, Magnusson, Kyziridis; Braga, Kabore

Dundee United imaginable starting lineup:

Walton; Rawlins, Iovu, Forbes, Ferry; Sevelj, Tait, Agyei; Randall, Rose, Sapsford

We say: Hearts 1-2 Dundee United

Hearts person endured a disastrous commencement to the play and caput into the crippled disconnected the backmost of 4 consecutive defeats, portion Dundee United volition beryllium encouraged by their constituent against Rangers connected the opening day. 

The Tangerines besides boast a beardown caller grounds astatine Tynecastle Park, and fixed the opposition successful form, we are backing the distant broadside to widen their awesome distant tally astatine Tynecastle with a win.

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