{"id":659395,"date":"2025-12-28T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:19:21","slug":"were-not-barcelona-but-derek-mcinnes-knows-how-hearts-can-respond-after-derby-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659395\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We’re not Barcelona’ – but Derek McInnes knows how Hearts can respond after derby defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek McInnes knows his Hearts side are not Barcelona, but he knows what his team need to be if they are to sustain a Scottish Premiership title challenge.<\/b><\/p>\n

A chaotic 3-2 derby defeat at Hibernian<\/a> consigned the leaders to just a second league loss of the season in their 19th match.<\/p>\n

Despite responding with an attempted fightback, McInnes lamented his players not doing the basics well enough as they went three down at Easter Road on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Hearts boss says his side now “need to own” a “sore” afternoon in Leith, but he is not prepared to “lose all wherewithal” after a disappointing day.<\/p>\n

“We get to the top of the league not by being Barcelona, not by being something we don’t think we are, it’s by doing basics well in games,” the 54-year-old told BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t do the basics well, it doesn’t matter how good you are or how good a run you’re on, you’re going to end up with a sore one.<\/p>\n

“The second half we gave a much more familiar showing to what we normally do. I think it’s two defeats in 19, if we have two defeats out of the next 19, we’ve had a brilliant season, an unbelievable season.<\/p>\n

“We’re not going to start losing all wherewithal at this moment in time. We’ve lost a game and we know the reasons why we’ve lost the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek McInnes knows his Hearts side are not Barcelona, but he knows what his team need to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-659395","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\/115796217971650034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659395","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=659395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}