Kilmarnock vs Hearts - prediction, team news, lineups

Kilmarnock volition invited Hearts to Rugby Park connected Saturday for a matchday 7 brushwood successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are bottommost of the standings with 4 points from six games, portion the visitors are 3rd with 12 points from six matches.

Match preview

Kilmarnock person experienced a challenging commencement to the 2026-27 Scottish Premiership season, with Neil McCann's broadside sat astatine the bottommost of the standings aft six matchdays. 

Killie opened their league play with a constrictive 4-3 decision to newly-promoted St Johnstone, followed by back-to-back dense defeats to Celtic (5-1) and Dundee United (4-0). 

A 4th consecutive nonaccomplishment followed against St Mirren (1-0) earlier Kilmarnock yet picked up their archetypal constituent of the run against Aberdeen with a 0-0 draw, with Killie going connected to gully 1-1 earlier losing connected penalties to the Dons conscionable days aboriginal successful the Scottish League Cup quarter-finals.

McCann's broadside did negociate to bounce backmost and unafraid their archetypal triumph of the play earlier this week, with George Stanger scoring the lone extremity successful a 1-0 triumph implicit Hibernian. 

Now looking to physique connected that triumph and determination distant from the bottommost of the table, Kilmarnock volition beryllium hoping to propulsion disconnected a astonishment effect and flooded Hearts. 

The Jambos person already had respective mixed results this term, including their elimination the Champions League and Europa League qualifiers earlier securing their spot successful the Conference League league phase. 

Hearts besides mislaid their opening crippled of the league play to Aberdeen (2-1) earlier winning 4 consecutive Scottish Premiership matches, though that tally came to an extremity against Falkirk past clip out, losing 2-1. 

Those results permission Wouter Vrancken's broadside sitting 3rd successful the standings with 12 points aft six matchdays, and the Belgian manager volition beryllium anxious for his broadside to rapidly bounce backmost from Tuesday's decision with different win. 

Hearts were defeated 1-0 successful their past sojourn to Rugby Park successful March 2026, though they had secured back-to-back victories successful their anterior 2 trips to that game.

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Team News

Kilmarnock are incapable to telephone upon Robbie Deas owed to a ft injury, portion Djenairo Daniels is suspended aft being sent disconnected successful the triumph against Hibernian earlier this week. 

After picking up their archetypal triumph of the league season, McCann whitethorn opt to sanction an unchanged starting squad connected Saturday.

As for Hearts, Tom Renaud, Craig Halkett, Malachi Fagan-Walcott and Ageu are each unavailable owed to ongoing wounded problems. 

James Wilson has scored 5 goals successful his past 7 appearances for the Jambos, and the teen is expected to proceed starring the enactment connected Saturday, with Claudio Braga, Calvin Miller and Josh McPake providing support.

Kilmarnock imaginable starting lineup:

Stryjek; Kamara, McCarthy, Stanger, Schjonning-Larsen; Lowery, Rice; Ring, John-Jules, Kiltie; Hugill

Hearts imaginable starting lineup:

Reus; Altena, McCart, Findlay, Milne; Dhanda, Mendy; Miller, Braga, McPake; Wilson

We say: Kilmarnock 1-3 Hearts

Hearts person undoubtedly had the stronger commencement to the season, and though Kilmarnock volition beryllium buoyed by their archetypal triumph of the Scottish Premiership run earlier this week, the Jambos should person the prime to unafraid a victory.

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