Hearts v Celtic: Pick of the stats

After their 2-0 win in March last season, Hearts could win back-to-back home league meetings with Celtic for the first time since August 2006 under Valdas Ivanauskas.

Celtic have won both of their last two league meetings with Hearts without conceding. They last both won and kept a clean sheet three times in a row against the Jambos in the Scottish Premiership in May 2017 during Brendan Rodgers’ first spell in charge.

Only Celtic (177) have recorded more pressed sequences in the Scottish Premiership this season than Hearts (162).

Celtic have won all six of their away league games this season by an aggregate score of 18-1. Only in 1957-58 (10), 1971-72 (9) and 2017-18 (7) have the Hoops ever won their opening seven away matches of a league campaign.

Celtic’s Nicolas Kuhn has been directly involved in 21 shots following a ball carry (10 shots, 11 chances created) in the Scottish Premiership this season, the most of any player. Indeed, his total carry distance of 2,087 metres is the most of any non-defender in the competition this term.