Heart Of Midlothian vs ST Johnstone — Premiership 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 118+ matches
Heart Of Midlothian53%
ST Johnstone23%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.3% correct across 582,450 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.5% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Heart Of Midlothian creates 66% more chances
Season form · 118 home / 121 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under51
- Over49
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes51
- No49
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Heart Of Midlothian ↓
Most likely 1–0 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Heart Of Midlothian at home — creates 1.69, concedes 1.05 · 118 matches
ST Johnstone away — creates 0.92, concedes 1.58 · 121 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Heart Of Midlothian attack 1.69 + ST Johnstone defence 1.58 → ÷2 → 1.64
ST Johnstone attack 0.92 + Heart Of Midlothian defence 1.05 → ÷2 → 0.99
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 53%?"
Heart Of Midlothian at 53% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 53% does not mean "Heart Of Midlothian will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Probable lineups not yet announced
Starting lineups are usually confirmed ~1 hour before kickoff
Celtic
Rangers
Kilmarnock
Aberdeen
HibernianHeart OF MidlothianST Johnstone
Motherwell
Livingston
Hamilton Academical
ST Mirren
DundeeIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Heart Of Midlothian host ST Johnstone on Saturday, 25 November 2023 at 15:00. The match is part of the Premiership 2018/2019 season.
Premiership: Heart Of Midlothian 1–0 ST Johnstone
Heart Of Midlothian beat ST Johnstone 1-0 in Premiership on November 25, 2023.
The match was played at Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh.