McCulloch late show as 特別奇襲隊員s break Hearts

Last updated at 17:44 15 December 2007


物陰/風下 McCulloch's late second goal 安全な・保証するd victory for 特別奇襲隊員s over Hearts in the

Clydesdale Bank 首相 League and 確実にするd there was no European hangover at

Ibrox.

特別奇襲隊員s were 決定するd to make 修正するs for the midweek 支持する/優勝者s League 出口 to

Lyon and McCulloch 始める,決める them on their way with an 早期に opener against the

Tynecastle 味方する.

Hearts then 攻撃する,衝突する 支援する through Andrius Velicka but the 訪問者s were sent 支援する to

Edinburgh empty-手渡すd when McCulloch (人命などを)奪う,主張するd his second goal of the day with

just four minutes to go.

The visit to Tynecastle in September resulted in 特別奇襲隊員s' worst 業績/成果 of

the season so far and Walter Smith was keen to 避ける a repeat of that 4-2

drubbing so soon after the 失望 of Lyon.

He shuffled his pack after Wednesday's game and Kris Boyd and McCulloch were

the preferred strike 共同 with Steven Naismith (軍隊を)展開する,配備するd on the left of

midfield and Charlie Adam on the 権利.

Sasa Papac was dropped in favour of Steven Whittaker at left-支援する, while Daniel

Cousin and Kevin Thomson were both absent from the 18-man squad.

Hearts also made changes に引き続いて last week's disappointing loss to Motherwell

and Calum Elliot and Ruben Palazuelos 取って代わるd Andrius Ksanavicius and the

一時停止するd Michael Stewart, with both teams feeling they had a point to 証明する.

It was one-way traffic 早期に on as 特別奇襲隊員s 支配するd, and only the woodwork

否定するd Adam an 早期に opener when his dipping half-ボレー from 25 yards out

衝突,墜落d off the crossbar.

Naismith then had a couple of decent chances, bundling a Boyd cross wide before

演習ing off 的 after Alan Hutton had teed up the 発射.

However, 特別奇襲隊員s did not have to wait too long for the 打開, which

arrived with 17 minutes gone.

Boyd and Jose Goncalves 衝突する/食い違うd, and the Hearts defender nodded the ball into

the 空気/公表する.

Three Hearts players - 含むing Goncalves - then stood 支援する and 許すd

McCulloch to 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 into the box and gleefully ライフル銃/探して盗む past goalkeeper Eduardas

Kurskis.

The moment was soured わずかに when 審判(をする) Dougie McDonald produced a yellow

card に引き続いて over-exuberant 祝賀s from the goalscorer.

To their credit, Hearts 辞退するd to 崩壊する and すぐに 始める,決める about trying to

回復する parity.

Saulius Mikoliunas tried his luck with an audacious long-範囲 発射, which did

little to trouble Allan McGregor in the 特別奇襲隊員s goal.

Andrew Driver then latched on to a Goncalves ball out on the left 側面に位置する before

運動ing across the 直面する of goal and wide of the upright, as 特別奇襲隊員s kept their

わずかな/ほっそりした advantage at the break.

Mikoliunas made way for Kestutis Ivaskevicius at half-time but it was Velicka

who was the dangerman for Hearts in the second half.

He collected a Driver pass すぐに after the 再開する but finishing let him 負かす/撃墜する

as he swept a 発射 across the goalmouth and wide.

特別奇襲隊員s then had the chance to 二塁打 their lead when Adam's swerving 解放する/自由な-kick

設立する the 長,率いる of Boyd who directed a header just off 的 from の近くに 範囲.

Velicka gave Boyd a lesson in finishing with 55 minutes gone. Whittaker was

調書をとる/予約するd for a challenge on Robbie Neilson and the foul 証明するd 高くつく/犠牲の大きい for 特別奇襲隊員s

when Driver's 解放する/自由な-kick 選ぶd out Velicka who nodded past McGregor from eight

yards.

にもかかわらず his 偉業/利用するs, Velicka was 孤立した for Christian Nade a few minutes

later, before 特別奇襲隊員s swapped Boyd for ジーンズ-Claude Darcheville.

Tempers began to boil over as the match raced に向かって the final 10 minutes,

with Palazuelos 調書をとる/予約するd for kicking the ball away before 存在 joined by Hutton

for 攻撃するing out at Elliot.

Just when Hearts thought they had held on for a point, 特別奇襲隊員s snatched the

勝利者.

Adam's 解放する/自由な-kick 選ぶd out Hutton on the 辛勝する/優位 of the box a nd his poor 試みる/企てる

at a 発射 fell to the feet of McCulloch, whose own mis-kicked 成果/努力 was fumbled

into the 支援する of the 逮捕する by Kurskis.

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