pretzel

Lovely pick out to find Spittal

GOALLLLLLLL

Taking their time i n the VAR room

Some finish by VV but ruled offside i think

Goal Moult

Penalty for us

Moult on for Shields

Honestly it's like us that are down to ten men.

2-0 shocking

The second half is going to be torture with time wasting worse that the Fir Park game no doubt. Anyway thought we started well enough before Hearts went on top and missed some sitters before we grew back into it . A few great chances for Van Veen but Slattery should have done much better with his effort. I don't know what the issue is with us playing against 10 men. Frustratingly, I know we still have to defend it but Halliday had headed it out before they got a second corner and scored. Thankfully 45 minutes to rescue it but you can help but feel it'll be another case of missed chances.

Hearts score. Looked a well goal kick

Red card for Grant of Hearts

A few decent chances missed in quick succession.

Ludicrous passback by O'Donnell. Lucky escape

Kevin ' Everythings a Foul' Clancy apart from actual real fouls.

McGinn looks to be going off with a knee injury. Snodgrass diving across twice to stop him clearing the ball. O'Donnell on.

Absolute sitter missed by Wankland. Worse than Shields last week.

I can't believe how tight the league is this year, it would be nice to get the three points today as it would see us slot into 5th place albeit 4 teams would be on 19 points should that scenario play out. TBH I'm more wanting to get a nice cushion between us, Killie, County and United going into the WC break. Once we get the Celtic game out of the way in midweek we don't need to play them again until the very last game before the split.

I would honestly love nothing more than to be eating humble pie but I just don't feel he offers enough at this level. I watched him against Queen's Park in the first reserve game of the season and he was virtually anonymous, he managed to get one on one with the keeper from an angle at one point but his effort was virtually a pass back, he had done something similar against Kilmarnock earlier in the season when in a glorious position but fluffed his lines and the less said about his miss against United last weekend the better. If he was an out and out striker then he wouldn't be missing those so frequently. Hopefully I'm apologising later on.

I hate being over critical of our own players but after seeing him play against Queen's Park in a reserve fixture over a month ago that was a performance that convinced me he just doesn't have it and we have another year and a half to enjoy. That miss against Dundee United was something else. Three points would be massive here, Dundee United are away to Celtic so you would suspect they will get pumped again, I like the idea of getting some daylight between us and the bottom and a few positive results will be most welcome before the World Cup kicks off. Hearts are in action today, apparently they are having some injury concerns at the moment so hopefully come Sunday it's a struggle for them. We played really well at Fir Park but just couldn't get the ball into the back of the net, I wouldn't be surprised to see a repeat performance of last weekend.

I remember it being mentioned that Anier and Ojamaa had the same agent back in their Motherwell days, he must have made a mint between those two as since leaving us not including Legia Warsaw as he came back on loan but Henrik has played for 9 other clubs and for Henri it's just the ten clubs.

End of the day at least we got to not only enjoy winning up at Tannadice but got to see that wee douche trudge off with his head down costing his team massively, its not as if we will benefit from this decision going forward and they'll get pumped at the weekend anyway. However the inconsistency of the decisions is laughable as we have seen the likes of Carroll, McHugh etc sent off for less.

I'm generally stumped how people don't think thats a red. The Pie and Bovril twitter page recently posted a video and it slows down the contact of Watts connection. His studs actually rake down the side of Goss's shin and the force makes him plant his foot, it could have been a nasty one. I said it yesterday, but as soon as Watt makes the challenge you see him turn to the ref waving his arms saying he didn't mean it and when he is eventually shown the red he puts his head down and walks off without saying a word to Beaton, the sign of a guilty man.

Obviously that static picture is not representative of the full tackle but the top of the studs fired into the opponents shin at that height would fall under the endangering someone category so it's a red every day of the week. Even Tony walked off without complaint. Anyway enough of that ned, delighted we got over the line. Hopefully we can write some wrongs next week when we visit Tynecastle.

Delighted with the win. It's typical how we blew them away at Fir Park and somehow came away with just the solitary point but today certainly wasn't anywhere near our best and we take home the three points. For all the possession United enjoyed I think they really only tested Kelly once. Great result all things considered.