Next Up - Hearts At Tynecastle

[jwok]

Motherwell and Hearts meet at Tynecastle on Saturday in a meeting of third v fourth. Can ‘Well narrow the gap?

Previous meetings this season have delivered 2-0 home wins, the most recent thanks to goals from Connor Shields and Ricki Lamie in November. LINK

[Well below the Equator]

If I look at how "up for it" Hearts were in the 2nd half vs Celtic, and how they seem to have signed a decent striker (Simms), this is a very ominous fixture. With the run we have coming up, the very least we should expect is 100% effort, but I am afraid it will be a toothless 0-2 (or worse) result. Please prove me wrong.

GA will be banned from the touchline for this one? Maybe he should stay at ML1 for the day - would that not help us??

[Handsome_Devil]

I've no doubt we'll give 100% effort but yeah, a toothless 2-0 sounds likely. In our games against the city clubs this season we've been highly competitive in all of them barring the two home losses to the Old Firm. Even at Tynecastle last time it was two mistakes from Kelly which cost us, that apart we were fine and made a wad of chances.

Any potential attitude problem we have is when we get ahead of ourselves and think we should be winning easily - Dens, Dingwall etc - so there's nothing to suggest it'll be an issue tomorrow.