{"id":649790,"date":"2026-05-04T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:29:21","slug":"derek-mcinnes-holstering-two-hearts-weapons-that-can-give-unshakeable-underdogs-a-priceless-victory-over-40m-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649790\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek McInnes holstering two Hearts weapons that can give ‘unshakeable’ underdogs a priceless victory over \u00a340m Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gorgie gaffer has urged the fans t bring the noise like never before for monumental title clash at Tynecastle<\/p>\n

22:30, 03 May 2026Updated 09:06, 04 May 2026<\/p>\n

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Derek McInnes celebrates<\/p>\n

Pumped-up Derek McInnes insists the Tynecastle roar and an \u201cunshakeable belief\u201d can help Hearts<\/a> land a priceless title blow on a Rangers side built on a \u00a340m fortune.<\/p>\n

The league leaders can all but knock the Ibrox side out of the running with a win in Gorgie<\/a> this evening.<\/p>\n

And McInnes<\/a> has urged the Jambos faithful to crank the Tynecastle atmosphere up to the max to help his players over the line.<\/p>\n

Hearts have beaten Rangers home and away and a third victory this evening would stretch the gap on Danny Rohl\u2019s side to seven points with just three games to play.<\/p>\n

And McInnes said: \u201cWhen we get into these games with Rangers<\/a> and Celtic, we\u2019re ordinarily seen as the underdog and understand that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve always been an underdog this season with an unshakable belief.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur record at Tynecastle gives us so much confidence as well. The players will be looking forward to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope Tynecastle is in its full glory on Monday for the punters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want them to show their colours, bring their scarves, give it laldy. Make it better than it\u2019s ever been.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players I\u2019m sure will respond to that because we\u2019ve got to use every advantage going to overcome a team who have spent \u00a340 million or so putting a squad together.<\/p>\n

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The Hearts squad celebrate with the fans at Easter Road<\/p>\n

\u201cFor that, they bring a lot of talented players and a lot of threats to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for us to be ahead of a team who have spent that amount shows what\u2019s been done for the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re going to have to tap into all that and the supporters will get a role to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Jambos keeper Alexander Schwolow reckons the energy from last week\u2019s tumultuous Edinburgh derby win at Easter Road can help propel the Jambos to another seismic result this evening.<\/p>\n

Hearts were facing a fifth successive away game without a win when they fell behind early on but fought back to take all three points against nine-man Hibees thanks to a Warren O\u2019Hora own goal and a late Blair Spittal strike.<\/p>\n

Schwolow said: \u201cThere\u2019s been plenty of good moments this season like beating Hibs at Easter Road after not having won away for four or five games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt amazing to beat them again and I think it gave us a lot of energy for this week and hopefully we can transfer the energy for the game on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cRangers have so many good players and they can do a lot of things with the ball. We have to be careful and try to prepare as best as possible to be in the best condition for Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gorgie gaffer has urged the fans t bring the noise like never before for monumental title clash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,18282,129883,188850,188852,84338,113572,8998,9003,85],"class_list":["post-649790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celtic-fc","tag-danny-rohl","tag-derek-mcinnes","tag-hearts-fc","tag-hibernian-fc","tag-martin-oneill","tag-rangers-fc","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}