Robbie Neilson has named the Hearts side he hopes can continue the feel good factor from Thursday night and get the domestic campaign back up and running.
The Jambos discovered before kick-off due to Fiorentina's win that they would be heading out of the Europa Conference League but they made sure to put a show on for the home support in the final home game and net a financial boost as they defeated bottom seeds RFS to make it two wins from two over the Latvian side in the section.
Matters now turn to turning fortunes around in the Premiership as the capital club aim to be within touching distance of third spot going into the World Cup break. It's been a terrible campaign to date with injuries but the shutdown will allow for Neilson to get a number of his troops back fit and raring to go for the second half of the campaign.
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Speaking ahead of the trip to Dingwall, he said: “To be honest, there’s not going to be much rotation because there’s not much squad left at the moment.
“We knew it was going to be a tough schedule – 26 games in the first three months of the campaign. We’ve got Ross County, Istanbul, Motherwell then we go Rangers away and Livi before we get to the (World Cup) break.
“We’ve got a lot of hard games to play in and we’ve just got to take one at a time. Obviously we’ve been through a wee difficult period but we’ve been playing against some really good teams.
“This European campaign was always going to be difficult for us. It’s our first exposure to that, the travel and coming back to play on the Sunday.
“We knew this period going up to the World Cup was always going to be difficult. We have to maintain the league form as much as we can to try to be round about that third position, get to the World Cup, then after that, start to get players back and hopefully kick on from there.”
HEARTS XI: Gordon, M.Smith, Kio, Shankland, Halliday, McKay, Cochrane, Sibbick, C.Smith, Ginnelly, Snodgrass
Subs: Stewart, Clark, Grant, Forrest, Neilson, Henderson, Darge, Denholm, Pollock
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