{"id":949042,"date":"2026-05-09T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:45:16","slug":"motherwell-vs-hearts-live-latest-updates-from-massive-title-showdown-at-fir-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949042\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherwell vs Hearts LIVE! Latest updates from massive title showdown at Fir Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearts could rewrite Scottish football<\/a> history in just 180 minutes.<\/p>\n

That’s how close Derek McInnes and his men are to immortality.<\/p>\n

No team outside of Glasgow has been crowned champions of Scotland since the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> with Aberdeen in 1985.<\/p>\n

And now Hearts are tantalisingly close<\/a>. In fact, they are so close that the SPFL have already put plans in place for a potential trophy presentation at Tynecastle on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

McInnes is cautious by nature and won’t be looking beyond this tricky clash with Motherwell<\/a> with just one win in three against the impressive Steelmen this season.<\/p>\n

Jens Berthel Askou<\/a> has won so many admirers with his team’s style of play this season and that has seen him touted for a move to Celtic.<\/p>\n

If he can dent the Jambos tonight then he’ll certainly be admired in the east end of Glasgow as the Hoops look to close the gap at the top.<\/p>\n

Motherwell XI: <\/strong>Ward, Said, Gordon, Welsh, O’Donnell, Priestman, Watt, Slattery, Longelo, Just, Maswanhise.<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/strong> Connelly, Sparrow, Halliday, Nicholson, Koutroumbis, Ross, Booth, Hendry, Charles-Cook.<\/p>\n

Hearts XI:<\/strong> Schwolow, Steinwender, Halkett, Findlay, Kingsley, Altena, Leonard, Baningime, Spittal, Shankland, Braga.<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/strong> Fulton, Kent, McCart, Kabore, Borchgrevink, Devlin, Kerjota, Kyziridis, Chesnokov.<\/p>\n

It’s set up to be a Saturday night cracker and you can follow all the build up, match action and reaction right here in our LIVE blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearts could rewrite Scottish football history in just 180 minutes. That’s how close Derek McInnes and his men…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[71562,94,12568,47959,213784,94001,78418,1638,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-949042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-derek-mcinnes","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-footballblog","11":"tag-hearts-fc","12":"tag-jens-berthel-askou","13":"tag-lawrence-shankland","14":"tag-motherwell-fc","15":"tag-scottish-premiership","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116546576463866603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949042","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=949042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}