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Referee - Rohit Saggi (NOR) Assistants - Morgen Jensen (NOR) and Anders Olav Dale (NOR) Fourth Official - Kai Erik Steen (NOR) Video Assistant Referee - Dennis Higler (NED) Assistant Video Assistant Referee - Pol van Boekel (NED) Missing - Steven Davis (knee), Zak Lovelace (muscle), Nicolas Raskin (ankle), Connor Goldson (suspended), Ryan Jack (muscle), Scott Wright (muscle); Ridvan Yilmaz, Kieran Dowell, Leon Balogun (not in EL-squad) Live on - TNT Sports 3 UK

Only 5 weeks till the transfer window opens ...

Since Borna played ahead of him, and injuries of various degrees can happen to any player at any time, that's not really an argument against Ridvan as a player? You can have luck with people like Kent or Tavernier, who virtually don't receive an injury for half a decade, while others like Helander (with no real great injury background) or Hagi get their knees etc. done and miss lots of game time. Sometimes you wonder what would have happened to Devine or Zukowksi et al, had Tavernier wrecked his cruciate knee ligaments. Some striker would have taken the penalties and increased his value, no doubt. It is rather interesting to see some injured players getting worse over time, while certain never-injured ones get some sort of irreplaceable value. So far, e.g. I haven't missed Kent.

What do we need instead of Ridvan then?

Could have been more, should have been, but three points in the bag and that pitch behind us for a few months. Nothing against Livingston, but that pitch and those players do not belong into our league. That angle of the sun in the second half was pretty aweful.

Said that when he signed. Got a bit of a nasty streak in him and is prone to a yellow card. Only 7 in 16 games this season ...

What sort of dross do they breed nowadays in Scotland? 6 ft 6, 90 kilo and falls like a "wet bag"? A touch on the neck, and you'd think a pole-axe had struck?

I'd give Roofe a chance as long as he's fit, TBH.

Referee - Steven McLean Assistants - David McGeachie and Colin Drummond Fourth Official - Colin Steven Video Assistant Referee - Steven Kirkland Assistant Video Assistant Referee - Gary Hilland

McCausland's looking good, three good shots, a goal chopped off and caused a penalty. Sima is working hard, yet, of late little comes of it. Dessers does his job well enough, we don't want to risk Danilo (or Roofe) on that surface after all. Lawrence with some really intelligent play and a fine pass to Dessers for the goal. Hardly ever seen a game where two of your own players deny you goals via foul play or off-side, and then you miss a penalty on top of that. Should be 4 or 5-0 by now, but it has been one way traffic so far and there is little evidence that this won't continue. That said, this surface and their kick'n hope style ...

Wouldn't have risked Lawrence on that surface. Dessers ahead of Danilo exactly for that reason. Let's see how McCausland copes with a first start.

That was passion all round, a bit too much kick and rush, but it worked. Should have been two or four more, so it became a bit more "interesting" near the end than it had to be. Defense looks far more solid now, Jack and Lundstram cleared and controlled the midfield, the latter possibly running out of steam. McCausland - in this atmosphere - with a couple of sublime passes, him and Cantwell will be a joy to behold if fit and ready. Sima, just like Lammers, trying (mayb over-trying) without much impact tonight, I reckon that either would have been hooked earlier if Wright had been fit. Good to see Lawrence back on the park and Roofe on the bench. Butland rock solid! Somehow, Clement got Beale's attack department sorted, and they play with one another and not alongside one another.

Go a way!

That was super-solid. Especially pleased for Wright, but we showed up well from the off, a bit unlucky in front of goals, but IMHO the result was hardly in doubt. Hearts' first goal against us since 1996 had to come from the spot, but we might well have had 3 or 4 more. Well done to Clement and his men, though at time you wonder whether these are the same players who never really got going earlier in the season. Yet, let's look to the future, the past is gone anyway.

Volume reduced to 1 after noting that.

Essentially much like we played in the second half against Dundee, only that the ball hasn't ended up in the net as often. Hearts are more dangerous than Dundee, but have been on the back foot all half. We need to be a touch more clinical ...

He's on 108 senior goals (115 assists). So that means half of all his goals have come from the spot, in roughly 390 senior games. Borna's on 15 (72 assists) in 316 games.

Well, we don't play that well for quite some spells, but grind and now hammer out results. 32 shots, 11 on target, 5 goals ... not that bad, despite the first half "agony". Good to see Balogun back, solid as ever. Ridvan was lively, Lammers finally gets some reward, Danilo the new predator. But for the Dundee goalie, this would have been a rout ...

Don't tell anyone now 😱

We can easily get Jack off, Dundee is offering no threat the others can't cope with. I'd just send Dessers as a second striker and press them more. Cantwell is needed at the weekend.

Start at full throttle, suddenly remember the petrol price and go down into gear 2 (at best). We should be out of sight here ... but then the DMs and CDs remember that they are Premiership kings of tiki-taka and bore us to death. Clement should whip some bums here!

We should be out of sight ... but dreary me, that's some shocking football at times.

Shouldn't the kids be in bed by now?

v Referee - Kevin Clancy Assistants - Calum Spence and Drew Kirkland Fourth Official - Peter Stuart Video Assistant Referee - Gavin Duncan Assistant Video Assistant Referee - Jonathan Bell Missing - Steven Davis (Knee), Tom Lawrence (Calf), Rabbi Matondo (Knee), Zak Lovelace (Muscle), Borna Barisic (Muscle), Kemar Roofe (Knee and Calf), Dujon Sterling (Ankle), Nicolas Raskin (Ankle), John Souttar (Muscle) Live on - Rangers TV