Hearts head to Dundee United on Saturday hoping to extend their lead at the top of the Premiership with Celtic and Rangers not playing until Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
But McInnes says his players need to concentrate on what lies ahead of them rather than be concerned about how other teams will fare.<\/p>\n
“I believe that we can win games, but you look at the next four fixtures, each one is a proper challenge for us,” he added.<\/p>\n
“I’m just really concentrating on making sure we pick the right team and trying to get the right performance. It’s not really about mind games and trying to send out a signal. <\/p>\n
“Take care of the game first, win the game, and then however people react to that is up to them.”<\/p>\n
Hearts have confirmed Uganda forward Rogers Mato, 22, will join the club immediately after they agreed a loan until the end of the season with North Macedonian side Vardar.<\/p>\n
McInnes is pleased to strengthen his options now, with Scotland striker Lawrence Shankland out until March with a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n
“I think the club’s done well to get him this window. We were always hopeful of that. I think he’s an exciting young player,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He brings a lot of pace. He can play across the front line. So he has great versatility. <\/p>\n
“Sometimes I feel we need that wee bit more pace at the top end of the pitch. The potential’s clear and he’s done quite a lot for somebody so young.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearts head to Dundee United on Saturday hoping to extend their lead at the top of the Premiership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}