{"id":662524,"date":"2026-10-22T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:44:10","slug":"trabzonspor-2-0-heart-of-midlothian-live-uefa-conference-league-radio-text-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662524\/","title":{"rendered":"Trabzonspor 2-0 Heart of Midlothian LIVE: Uefa Conference League – radio, text & report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah scored one and set up the other as Trabzonspor proved too strong for Hearts in the Conference League.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool legend dinked in a first-half penalty before teeing up Franculino Dju to fire in a magnificent second after the interval in an efficient display from the Turkish side.<\/p>\n

Hearts, depleted by numerous injuries to key first-team players, were lost full-back Harry Milne in training on the eve of this game<\/a> and lined up with attacker Rogers Mato as their left-back.<\/p>\n

And defender Christian Borchgrevink was forced off through injury on the stroke of half time as head coach Wouter Vrancken’s squad was further diminished. <\/p>\n

Off the back of their 7-1 Scottish Premiership humbling by Celtic<\/a> on Sunday, Hearts were under pressure to respond and should have taken an early lead when Malachi Fagan-Walcott hit a post with a free header.<\/p>\n

However, Trabzonspor grew into the game and after two initial penalty claims were denied – the first for a close offside in the build-up – Salah stepped forward to slot his spot-kick down the middle of Beau Reus’ goal.<\/p>\n

Franculino, who won the penalty when he was felled by Tomas Magnusson, curled into the far corner to double the lead after a well-weighted one-two with Salah.<\/p>\n

The whipped strike, coming just shy of the hour, put paid to any faint Hearts hopes of a comeback as they remain winless in the competition.<\/p>\n

Josh McPake flashed wide as the game petered out, and the hosts’ Sidny Lopes Cabral was shown a second yellow card for being a touch late on Sabah Kerjota.<\/p>\n

Hearts remained diligent in their pressing and application, showing resilience and signs of a fightback from their chastening weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah scored one and set up the other as Trabzonspor proved too strong for Hearts in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-662524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}