Roger Hanna

And then, likewise, he can still drift out in the wider areas when they're on the ball to try and put deliveries into the box.

If we felt that Hearts were going to be a bit more calm, then just go and watch their kick-off.

gain territory and win any first and second balls but now they've got everyone in Rangers half they're camping Rangers in and it's now up to Rangers to try and show a bit of composure to work their way up the pitch but on the first two occasions and then there's a third there Rangers are just slashing the ball and giving them it back

Yeah and if you said roughly about Christmas time that Kiziridis isn't going to be in the nominees for the PFA Player of the Year you'd have been pretty shocked but such as being the kind of downturn in his performance levels since the turn of the year and I do think these are the games at the start of the season where he was excellent and he's been pretty quiet in that

that opening 45 minutes so I think if Hearts can start to get the likes of Kiziridis and Braga and Shanklin involved in the game a lot more it can certainly look like a different second half and you've got to say it's only been three and a half minutes but Hearts have definitely started the better not always easy to gather your thoughts and call mid-game but the option is there 01419511025 Lauren Shanklin hits one it's deflected and oh my goodness Blair Spittle on at the break

confusion out for a throw in which you know is going to come in long now from James Tavernier but that's been Rangers best creator it's been James Tavernier's hands it shows you that right foot is it can whip in deliveries to the box but every chance or every big chance shall we say that Rangers have came from has came from James Tavernier with these set pieces and a couple of occasions has been for these long throws so I think Rangers will be happy it's the first team they've actually got in Hartsey's half in the opening four and a half minutes so as it comes in

You always win them.

For me, I think it's clever when centre-halves do that.

At times, as soon as you feel that bit of contact in your back, you go down.

And listen, there's not a lot in it, but quite often you can see them giving, such as the amount of bodies that are in the box.

John Beaton's probably a wee bit unsighted as well, but it's pressure relieved.

We've seen Derek McInnes just a minute before halftime scribble furiously into his notepad and it wouldn't surprise me one bit that if his instruction at halftime was put more crosses into the box because Do you think that's what he'd written down?

Yeah and I think that's five or six crosses already they've put in at Rangers box and Rangers have defended relatively well the one that they didn't obviously lead to that long Shanklin shot at the edge of the box but it's been a much more a much improved hearts performance in this opening seven minutes you can see here we've got the

the little graphic up the action areas it's all been played in Rangers half and it's now up to Rangers to try and come up with a solution try and gain a wee bit of control try and work their way up the pitch again but at this moment in time they're just giving the ball back to Hearts yeah bringing the edge of the box doesn't usually shoot Braga might though and it's low and it's held by Jack Butland it was a fairly routine save

and it's cut back and it's straight into the hands of Svalov and goal yeah I was listening the ball gets cut back to Charmitty and it looks as if he's going to shoot and he decides to try and chop on his left foot and listen it's the wrong decision Craig Halkett then reads it tries to buy a foul but John Beaton fair play to him I think he sees it straight away and the game goes on and it's a decent sighting for Scott Wilson just rolls back to him about 23 yards out of his left foot doesn't get enough precision or power on it and it's an easy save for Svalov

Well it's the third mistake already in eight minutes from Nasser Jigar, it's a routine situation to defend but he gets it all wrong, he gives the ball back to Hartz and then they work it ever so well onto that right hand side and Kiziridis doesn't take a great touch but he does ever so well to work it inside to his left foot, whips it to that far post, hits the base of the post

and they look easier than they are for me you know it comes at Stephen Kingsley with a lot of pace at a difficult height and he does ever so well just to guide it by Jack Putland but listen Hearts deserve it their opening nine minutes have been excellent and it's 1-1 and Derek McInnes has changed the formation he's reacted as we said to a poor first half

Listen I always think that you can overanalyse defensive mistakes in certain situations

he's ball watching which I think you're going to when you see someone cutting to their left foot and shoot from 12 yards out that Kiziridis does and it's just the nature of an element of fortune where the ball's going to land you know if it lands to Scovelson you'll see he's in a fantastic position but it lands a yard to his left and Kingsley's obviously the favourite to go on the end of it like I say take nothing away for the finish he does well he gets his knee over the ball hit it low into the ground and leave Jack Butler with no chance well this is the

yeah and when it hits off the base of the post it can land anywhere within that sort of radius where all three players were I think it was James Tavenier, Scott Wilson and Kingsley but it lands to Kingsley's foot it's coming into his path he's facing it he's coming on to the ball the other two aren't yeah but the play just ravaged forward again from Rangers and James Tavenier just takes the wrong option he shoots from 35 yards out is that forcing it a bit and we all know he's got a good right foot but it just always felt really ambitious at a stage in the game where you don't need to take that one yeah definitely yeah