Lawrence Shankland scored twice as Hearts cruised to a 3-0 Scottish Premiership win at residence to Motherwell.
The Scotland striker, who’s out of contract in the summertime, caught both sideof half-time to set the hosts on their option to a routine victory at Tynecastle.
Alan Forrest rounded off the scoring within the 62nd minute as Hearts moved above their opponents within the desk.
Shankland has discovered objectives a lot more durable to come back by this season than in his earlier two campaigns with the Edinburgh membership, which yielded 24 league objectives every, however he opened the scoring after half-an-hour.
The 29-year-old ran on to a protracted ball which the Motherwell defence ought to have minimize out, checked again inside and fired low into the nook.
The guests thought they have been degree within the thirty eighth minute when Callum Slattery volleyed residence following a set-piece, however the effort was disallowed for offside following a prolonged VAR assessment.
As an alternative Shankland doubled the hosts’ lead on the hour mark, getting his head on to a James Penrice cross in and guiding the ball down into the nook.
And Forrest killed the competition with Hearts’ third simply two minutes later, blasting residence the rebound from shut vary after Yan Dhanda had introduced an excellent save out of goalkeeper Aston Oxborough.
What the managers mentioned…
Hearts interim supervisor Liam Fox: “I’ll repeat what I said last week, if you put Lawrence Shankland in these types of positions and you do work on how you’re going to get the ball to him, he will score goals.
“That is evident and apparent from his spell right here but additionally beforehand in his profession.
“But not just everything’s about Lawrence, there’s got to be people that make passes for him and run ahead of the ball for him. So it’s a team effort and I think they deserve huge credit over the last couple of weeks for how they’ve performed and the goals they’ve scored but also how hard they had to work without the ball today as well.”
Motherwell boss Michael Wimmer: “My only thing is what I always say, and I say this also in Austria and Germany, if the VAR says something then in my opinion it should be a clear mistake.
“If VAR takes 5 minutes and the referee takes 5 minutes once more on the monitor, then for me it couldn’t be a transparent resolution. So that is the one factor I wish to say.
“So please let the referee take responsibility and say goal or no goal and you should be brave enough.
“Every man makes errors and no worries, then it was a mistake, however when you want 10 minutes to decide I feel it is a very long time.”
