Scottish Premiership: Pressure at Tynecastle & Rugby Park as break beckons

OK, Celtic v Rangers is the biggest top-flight match of the weekend but it will get plenty of attention.

What’s interesting about Hearts’ home meeting with Dundee United is that promoted United go into Sunday’s game unbeaten in the Premiership while last season’s third-placed team, Hearts, are winless this season.

Head coach Steven Naismith has not yet settled on a first choice XI, due in part to Hearts juggling European fixtures along with league and League Cup games.

The Tynecastle side desperately need to get captain and talisman Lawrence Shankland firing again and playing against his former club might just be the ticket, though he did miss the midweek loss to Viktoria Plzen.

For United, a morale-boosting win against St Johnstone last weekend followed draws with Dundee and Ross County. They are also through to the last eight of the League Cup and manager Jim Goodwin is seeing his newly-built squad spread the goals around.