Clydesdale Bank SPL, Sunday 7 November 2010 - The Two Stands Too Many Stadium
Hearts seem to be choosing alternate weeks to produce positive results. Their third Edinburgh derby win in succession was achieved this afternoon rather more easily than the 2-0 scoreline suggests.
It was Hibernian manager Colin Calderwood's first home game in charge of his new team but the home support didn't seem particularly impressed given the large numbers of empty seats in the home end of the new look Easter Road Stadium.
Hearts have played better and lost games but they did enough to canter to victory. David Templeton produced a quite brilliant goal after nineteen minutes. The 21-year-old winger set off on a mazy run, shrugging off the challenges of Galbraith, Hart, Bamba and Liam Miller before tucking a cool right-foot finish low past Brown from just inside the penalty box. It was a stunning goal and if it doesn't get goal of the season then something is far wrong.
Hearts dominated the game from there on in. With twenty three minutes left Stephen Elliott scored his first goal in a maroon jersey. Kevin Kyle headed the ball into the box following a free-kick, Templeton got in front of his markers to stab the ball on and Elliot swept the ball home from ten yards.
Hibernian's day of misery was complete when captain Derek Riordan was shown a straight red card with three minutes to go for a quite atrocious lunge on Rudi Skacel. There is a bit of 'history' between the two players but Riordan could have caused the Czech star serious injury.
So, Hearts record their fourth away victory of the season. Celtic are next up - the problem is the game is at Tynecastle on Wednesday night. And they scored nine against hapless Aberdeen on Saturday. Ho hum...
Nice stand mind.....
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