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Hearts face a trip to Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park on Sunday afternoon, having the edge over their hosts in previous meetings. The visitors have won 23 of the 49 previous games, with the hosts winning just 15.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in February 2004, when they played out a goalless draw in a Scottish Premier match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2003/2004 | Sat 08 May | Hearts | 2 - 1 | Dunfermline A. | SPL |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 28 Feb | Dunfermline A. | 0 - 0 | Hearts | SPL |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 06 Dec | Dunfermline A. | 2 - 1 | Hearts | SPL |
| 2003/2004 | Sun 31 Aug | Hearts | 1 - 0 | Dunfermline A. | SPL |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 26 Apr | Dunfermline A. | 0 - 1 | Hearts | SPL |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 01 Feb | Hearts | 3 - 0 | Dunfermline A. | SPL |
| 2002/2003 | Sun 17 Nov | Dunfermline A. | 3 - 1 | Hearts | SPL |
Recent respective form guides
Dunfermline Athletic's poor home run has seen them win just 1 and draw 2 of the last six. A generous 8 goals have been both scored and conceded in this period.
Hearts's away form is none too clever either, coming away with three points on 3 occassions, but drawing 1 and losing 2. The Jambo's's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 5 goals for and 4 against.
Dunfermline A. find themselves stuck right at the bottom of the division. Their 5 games have yielded only 2 points. Hearts's 8 points from 5 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 5th position.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Dunfermline A. | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| Hearts | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Hearts are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Dunfermline A. | Failed to win in previous 6 home matches. Not won in the 11 most recent games. |
| Hearts | 6 games since last away draw. No win in the 2 most recent games. |