English
Heart Of Midlothian defeated Motherwell with a resounding 3-0 victory at Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh. The match, part of the 2024 Scottish Premiership’s second phase, round 3, was officiated by R. Lee. Possession was fairly evenly split, with Heart Of Midlothian holding 49% and Motherwell 51%.
Lawrence Shankland starred, scoring two goals (30th and 60th minutes), the first assisted by R. Fulton and the second by J. Penrice. Alan Forrest added a third goal in the 62nd minute. Despite the comfortable win, Heart Of Midlothian received two yellow cards (Devlin and Halkett). Motherwell also received two cautions (Halliday and Miller) and had a goal disallowed for offside in the 39th minute (C. Slattery). Although Motherwell had more shots (9 to Heart of Midlothian’s 7), Heart Of Midlothian’s accuracy was superior, with 5 shots on target compared to Motherwell’s 3.
Substitutions heart of midlothian: at minute 53 Y. Dhanda came in and K. Vargas went out., at minute 72 S. Kartum came in and J. Grant went out., at minute 73 J. Wilson came in and L. Shankland went out., at minute 81 E. Kabangu came in and A. Forrest went out., at minute 81 C. Nieuwenhof came in and B. Baningime went out.
Substitutions motherwell: at minute 68 L. Armstrong came in and T. Watt went out., at minute 68 W. Dickson came in and T. Maswanhise went out., at minute 68 E. Wilson came in and D. Thompson went out., at minute 80 D. Zdravkovski came in and C. Slattery went out., at minute 84 K. Andrews came in and A. Halliday went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Heart Of Midlothian
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