Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 29 January 2022

Result

Hearts 2-0 Motherwell

Premiership · Saturday 29 January 2022, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Hearts · Motherwell · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-0 Motherwell: match report

Hearts beat Motherwell 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 29 January 2022. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Andy Halliday opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Hearts's goals came from Andy Halliday (37') and Ellis Simms (58'). Motherwell did not score.

Discipline: Hearts received 1 yellow card; Motherwell received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 39 points from 22 and Motherwell 4th on 32 points from 22. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 61 points, and Motherwell 6th with 46.

Hearts lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Motherwell in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Cammy Devlin of Hearts (8.0), ahead of Liam Boyce (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Hearts wins, 2 draws and 4 for Motherwell.

Going into the match Hearts's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Motherwell's D-L-W-W-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Yellow card · Liam KellyMotherwell
  • 37'Goal · Andy HallidayHearts · 1-0
  • 58'Goal · Ellis SimmsHearts · 2-0
  • 68'Yellow card · Peter HaringHearts
  • 80'Yellow card · Sean GossMotherwell

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 4, draws 2, Motherwell 4.

Team news

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Hearts line-up (3-4-1-2)

Craig Gordon, Taylor Moore, John Souttar, Stephen Kingsley, Nathaniel Atkinson, Cammy Devlin, Beni Baningime, Andy Halliday, Liam Boyce, Ellis Simms, Gary Mackay-Steven

Motherwell line-up (4-3-3)

Liam Kelly, Stephen O'Donnell, Sondre Solholm Johansen, Jake Carroll, N. McGinley, Callum Slattery, Barry Maguire, Liam Shaw, Ross Tierney, Kevin van Veen, Jordan Roberts