{"id":515015,"date":"2026-04-06T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515015\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:04:11","slug":"livingston-2-2-hearts-were-still-top-of-the-league-derek-mcinnes-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515015\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston 2-2 Hearts: &#8216;We&#8217;re still top of the league&#8217; &#8211; Derek McInnes&#8217; reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Indeed, Livingston&#8217;s leveller came from a slack pass when Craig Halkett failed to find Islam Chesnokov on the right-hand side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Livi broke up their left and Cristian Montano&#8217;s cross found Lewis Smith, who slammed home at the back post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The second goal is a ridiculous goal to lose, so we&#8217;re disappointed with that,&#8221; the Hearts head coach said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t keep pulling yourself off the canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Half an hour to go, I wanted to try and carry a bit more threat in that but what you&#8217;ve got to remember is you&#8217;re up against a team at the bottom of the league and all of a sudden they&#8217;ve got something to hang on to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Celtic&#8217;s away win at Dundee, it is now Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s side who have the best away record in the league. Rangers are behind them, with Hearts in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jambos have only lost five games all season, but all of those defeats have come on the road &#8211; to Aberdeen, Hibs, St Mirren, Rangers and Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McInnes though, was keen to dispel the idea that going away to the likes of Rugby Park and Almondvale are an easy six points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no easy games in the league,&#8221; he said. We&#8217;ve had a poor 20 minutes at Kilmarnock really and got ourselves behind, but we didn&#8217;t do enough to win that game either. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The last couple we&#8217;ve been guilty of losing poor goals and not doing enough to win games. The game at St Mirren was 10 men [after Craig Halkett&#8217;s red card] and then we lose the game at Ibrox and I thought we were very good in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to be really strong with our home form as we have been all season but there&#8217;s no doubting that a couple of big results on the road wouldn&#8217;t do us any harm. That&#8217;s where we need to try and address it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, Livingston&#8217;s leveller came from a slack pass when Craig Halkett failed to find Islam Chesnokov on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-515015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515015","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=515015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}