{"id":658740,"date":"2025-12-28T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658740\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:15:34","slug":"hibernian-vs-hearts-live-scottish-premiership-team-news-report-reaction-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658740\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernian vs Hearts LIVE: Scottish Premiership team news, report, reaction, stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This derby will not be forgotten any time soon, but what will its lasting impact be on this campaign?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hibs have had a stop-start season, and who knows what shipping a three-goal lead in this fixture would have done for this team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The target for Gray and his players now must be consistency, with just two points separating third and fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts were well below their level, but the level of concern that was there for McInnes when his side were three down was significantly reduced by the time they were listening to &#8216;Sunshine on Leith&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The return of Craig Halkett, playing alongside Stuart Findlay, meant the leaders had their first-choice centre-back pairing restored for the trip to Leith, but the duo were rocking for spells of a frantic encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pressure will only ramp up as the months go on, and there is a realistic chance Hearts are second by the time they play again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the character they demonstrated in their late rally evidences this title challenge is sustainable, with a favourable run of fixtures on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This derby will not be forgotten any time soon, but what will its lasting impact be on this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-658740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115794314826998181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}