Robbie Neilson admits ring rusty Hearts nearly suffered a false begin to their Premiership earlier than coming good to assert three factors in opposition to Ross County.
Regardless of being outplayed and County hitting the woodwork twice within the opening 45 minutes, second half strikes from Allan Forrest and Barrie McKay secured the win as Jordan White decreased the deficit late on. However the Jambos boss revealed he needed to warn his gamers on the interval that the season had already began.
Neilson stated: “We confirmed the rustiness of coming into aggressive video games from pre-season. Typically when you're on the market and it’s 200 miles per hour and it's good to are available in and calm down and say, ‘proper that is it now, the league has began. You'll be able to speak all you need within the construct as much as it, it's good to be at it - whenever you go on the market it might generally come at you want that’.
"I feel simply settling down the gamers and realising what they wanted to do and we managed to try this. One of many plus sides of being in Europe is you possibly can construct into pre-season.
“However one of many downsides is you’re not concerned within the Premier Sports activities Cup, which I like as a result of you possibly can are available in and play 4 video games and it’s aggressive. I simply felt the primary half we didn’t have that aggressive edge we wanted, that vitality to interrupt ahead. The second half was miles higher after we spoke to them."
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