Braga left a few goals out there, too. He was denied by Calum Ward when through on goal, and again in stoppage time as the Motherwell goalkeeper pushed his effort on to a post.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese also had a header from a corner he should have buried. Suggesting he merely brought energy from the bench would do Braga a grave disservice.<\/p>\n
But it was the starting point. He was constantly hassling Motherwell, and his touch map below shows he popped up everywhere.<\/p>\n
He had the joint highest amount of dribbles for Hearts, and his ability to take defenders on and get a strike away lead to the first goal of the comeback.<\/p>\n
“The message I got from the coach and from everybody – even the players – is to come in with energy,” Braga told BBC Scotland. “I think that’s one of my best attributes, so I tried to come in with energy.<\/p>\n
“It was a draw, but I feel like we could do more. We definitely could do more. We proved that in 45 minutes.”<\/p>\n
It is that determined attitude, as well as his ability, which means Braga is already a fans’ favourite at Tynecastle.<\/p>\n
He will surely now start against Livingston next week after five goals in eight appearances.<\/p>\n
“Braga is a bit of a maverick – he’s not scared to take it under pressure or when the team is 3-0 down,” former Hearts head coach Steven Naismith said on Sportscene.<\/p>\n
“As much as he’s a maverick and he’ll drop the shoulder or do a Cruyff turn, he has the natural instinct of a forward.<\/p>\n
“He is always around the box and as soon as he sees a shot going off, his movement is on the second ball. His natural instinct for goals is good and he has the spark to eliminate opposition players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braga left a few goals out there, too. He was denied by Calum Ward when through on goal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-88246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88246","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=88246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}