{"id":920351,"date":"2026-04-26T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:54:15","slug":"hearts-win-edinburgh-derby-spfl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920351\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts win Edinburgh derby | SPFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-article-header__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21667772.jpg\" alt=\"alt description\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Motherwell beat Rangers at Ibrox<\/p>\n<p>Heart of Midlothian have a three-point lead over Celtic at the top of the William Hill Premiership after a dramatic 2-1 win over nine-man Hibernian at Easter Road on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Boyle gave Hibs an early lead but they had goalkeeper Raphael Sallinger sent off after 14 minutes and Felix Passlack saw red three minutes after the interval. Derek McInnes&#8217; men equalised through a Warren O&#8217;Hora own goal in 65 minutes and Blair Spittal grabbed the crucial winner with four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers are four points off the pace in third spot following a 3-2 defeat to Motherwell at Ibrox. The Steelmen led 2-0 at half-time thanks to goals from Lukas Fadinger and Emmanuel Longelo but Youssef Chermiti and Nico Raskin hauled the hosts level. Longelo won it for &#8216;Well in the last minute as they took a big step towards securing a European place.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom six, Dundee United saw off Dundee 3-0 in the derby at Tannadice. Will Ferry bagged a double for Jim Goodwin&#8217;s side and Ryan Strain rounded things off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motherwell beat Rangers at Ibrox Heart of Midlothian have a three-point lead over Celtic at the top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,94,4884,712,59507,16,15],"class_list":["post-920351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-football","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-spfl","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116472765993282356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920351","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=920351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}