{"id":575345,"date":"2026-05-09T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575345\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:57:09","slug":"motherwell-vs-hearts-live-latest-updates-from-massive-title-showdown-at-fir-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575345\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherwell vs Hearts LIVE! Latest updates from massive title showdown at Fir Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearts could rewrite Scottish football<\/a> history in just 180 minutes.<\/p>\n

That’s how close Derek McInnes and his men are to immortality.<\/p>\n

No team outside of Glasgow has been crowned champions of Scotland since the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> with Aberdeen in 1985.<\/p>\n

And now Hearts are tantalisingly close<\/a>. In fact, they are so close that the SPFL have already put plans in place for a potential trophy presentation at Tynecastle on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

McInnes is cautious by nature and won’t be looking beyond this tricky clash with Motherwell<\/a> with just one win in three against the impressive Steelmen this season.<\/p>\n

Jens Berthel Askou<\/a> has won so many admirers with his team’s style of play this season and that has seen him touted for a move to Celtic.<\/p>\n

If he can dent the Jambos tonight then he’ll certainly be admired in the east end of Glasgow as the Hoops look to close the gap at the top.<\/p>\n

Motherwell XI: Ward, Said, Gordon, Welsh, O’Donnell, Priestman, Watt, Slattery, Longelo, Just, Maswanhise.<\/p>\n

Subs: Connelly, Sparrow, Halliday, Nicholson, Koutroumbis, Ross, Booth, Hendry, Charles-Cook.<\/p>\n

Hearts XI: Schwolow, Steinwender, Halkett, Findlay, Kingsley, Altena, Leonard, Baningime, Spittal, Shankland, Braga.<\/p>\n

Subs: Fulton, Kent, McCart, Kabore, Borchgrevink, Devlin, Kerjota, Kyziridis, Chesnokov.<\/p>\n

It’s set up to be a Saturday night cracker and you can follow all the build up, match action and reaction right here in our LIVE blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearts could rewrite Scottish football history in just 180 minutes. That’s how close Derek McInnes and his men…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[63797,218,11400,9531,80483,68013,22802,8058,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-575345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-derek-mcinnes","tag-football","tag-footballblog","tag-hearts-fc","tag-jens-berthel-askou","tag-lawrence-shankland","tag-motherwell-fc","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575345","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=575345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}