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Scotsman
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
Hearts v Dundee closed-door game ends in a four-goal thriller between SPFL Premiership sides
Edinburgh club start the SPFL Premiership against Aberdeen on Monday Sign up to our Hearts newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Hearts and Dundee played a closed-door friendly at Riccarton this afternoon which ended in a 2-2 draw. Both sides used the fixture to give first-team players game time, with Yan Dhanda and Alexandros Kyziridis scoring for the home side. The Hearts team included many first-team squad members who need more match practice following this month's Premier Sports Cup ties. Head coach Derek McInnes is preparing his side for Monday's William Hill Premiership opening match against Aberdeen at Tynecastle Park. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Goalkeeper Ryan Fulton played against Dundee along with defenders Adam Forrester, Michael Steinwender and Stephen Kingsley. Midfielders Dhanda and Sander Kartum, wingers Sabah Kerjota and Kyziridis, plus forward Kenneth Vargas, were all involved. Teenage defender Kenzi Nair also played after agreeing a co-operation loan deal with League Two side Spartans. Dundee manager Steven Pressley takes charge of his first league game on Saturday when Hibs visit Dens Park. He has made a number of new signings and used the bounce match against Hearts to test his players against Premiership counterparts. Dundee lost their opening two competitive games of the campaign against Airdrie and Alloa Athletic in this month's Premier Sports Cup group phase. Those defeats preceded a 3-1 win against Bonnyrigg Rose and a 5-0 victory over Montrose in their final group ties. However, they did not progress to the tournament's knockout phase. Hearts coasted through Group E with four wins and 16 goals scored to earn a seeding berth for the last-16. They were drawn away to St Mirren in a tie which is due to take place in the middle of next month. More to follow....
Scotsman
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
Hearts v Dundee closed-door game ends in a four-goal thriller
Edinburgh club start the SPFL Premiership against Aberdeen on Monday Sign up to our Hearts newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Hearts and Dundee played a closed-door friendly at Riccarton this afternoon which ended in a 2-2 draw. Both sides used the fixture to give first-team players game time, with Yan Dhanda and Alexandros Kyziridis scoring for the home side. The Hearts team included many first-team squad members who need more match practice following this month's Premier Sports Cup ties. Head coach Derek McInnes is preparing his side for Monday's William Hill Premiership opening match against Aberdeen at Tynecastle Park. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Goalkeeper Ryan Fulton played along with defenders Adam Forrester, Michael Steinwender and Stephen Kingsley. Midfielders Dhanda and Sander Kartum, wingers Sabah Kerjota and Kyziridis, plus forward Kenneth Vargas, were all involved. Teenage defender Kenzi Nair also played after agreeing a co-operation loan deal with League Two side Spartans. More to follow....
Powys County Times
7 hours ago
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Brendan Rodgers eyes transfer boost as Celtic prepare for Premiership opener
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers hopes to add to his squad ahead of their William Hill Premiership opener against St Mirren. Benjamin Nygren, Kieran Tierney and more recently Shin Yamada have added to Rodgers' first-team options during pre-season but he has seen the likes of Nicolas Kuhn, Greg Taylor, Jeffrey Schlupp and Maik Nawrocki depart and lost Jota to long-term injury late last season. Reports claim Celtic have had three bids rejected for Go Ahead Eagles midfielder Jakob Breum and have made an approach to sign Manchester City defender Jahmai Simpson-Pusey on loan. Questioned over his transfer plans, Rodgers told Sky Sports News: 'We hope this week there might be some news on that. 'But, of course, coaches and the transfer market don't move at the same pace. A coach always wants a player in immediately, but the transfer market doesn't always work like that. There's a lot that has to go into it. 'But it's also the reason for pre-season. You want your team together as quick as you can, so you can get some good work in, get the togetherness, get the spirit, everything formed. 'But of course, we know that traditionally it can be a challenge. Hopefully that will be the case by the end of the window. But in the meantime we're working very, very hard. 'We're excited by what's here at the moment and looking forward to the weekend.' Rodgers talked about ambition last week after a 5-1 friendly defeat by Ajax – which followed impressive wins over Sporting Lisbon and Newcastle. But he stressed that his stated desire for new players is based on realism first and foremost. 'I think it's arithmetic,' he said. 'It's purely counting. We've lost players and we want to replace those players with quality. It's not an opinion. It's where it's at. 'We've lost key players and we want to replace those as quick as we can in order to keep developing. I'm very hopeful that we can do that.' Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton this week claimed the squad was weaker than the group that finished last season but Rodgers would not be drawn on such comparisons. 'Listen, for me the focus is very much on what's here,' he said. 'We know we have work to do and I'm hopeful that we can get that done by the end of the window. 'But in the meantime, the players have worked fantastic over the course of this pre-season, some really good performances and growing and developing our spirit, which is going to be really important for us.'
STV News
a day ago
- Sport
- STV News
'This is our time': Palmer-Brown and Panathinaikos target Rangers comeback
Erik Palmer-Brown claimed Panathinaikos are 'really confident' they can overturn a 2-0 deficit at home to Rangers in the second leg of their Champions League qualifier in Athens on Wednesday. The Greeks went down 2-0 at Ibrox last Tuesday as Russell Martin's side seized the initiative in the battle to set up a third qualifying round clash with Viktoria Plzen or Servette. But American defender Palmer-Brown is adamant the Greeks are still firmly in the tie and can get the victory required to oust the William Hill Premiership side. 'I think we have to be ready, this is our time,' he said at his team's pre-match media briefing on Tuesday. 'I think over this last week we all have felt really confident and believe in ourselves to go out there and do what is needed. 'We're playing at our house in front of our fans and we know their expectations and what we expect of ourselves as well. We're going to go out there and give it our all. 'Of course, we know we have to score three goals as of now and we don't plan on giving any up. That's our goal as well, so we've got to go out there and perform at a really high level because we know they're coming to win as well. 'This is a good team and we know that we're going to have to go out there and do our best and give everything we have.' Panathinaikos spurned a series of chances at Ibrox and their cause was not helped by the fact they played the last half-hour with 10 men. 'I think we did a lot of things well but I don't think we finished off our chances that we created and ultimately that hurt us in the end of the game,' said Palmer-Brown. 'I think also on transition we can do better on stopping their two goals. If we put our chances away again that we had, maybe this doesn't happen. But this is football and sometimes it is cruel and you get unlucky sometimes. 'In this game, we need to take advantage of the chances we create, and we will do that.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
STV News
a day ago
- Business
- STV News
Stuart Kettlewell keen to create regular flow of sellable talent at Kilmarnock
Stuart Kettlewell is intent on creating a regular flow of sellable talent at Kilmarnock as he revealed the club had landed a 'significant' transfer fee for Corrie Ndaba. The Irish defender sealed a move to Serie A side Lecce on Monday just a year after signing for Killie from Ipswich. Recently-appointed manager Kettlewell insisted he was comfortable with the sale of the defender and is keen to see the club develop more players they can move on at a profit. 'We are a selling club, there's no hiding from that,' he told Sky Sports. 'We always want to get best value for players but it's kind of been a huge part of my remit in my previous two clubs as a manager and it'll be a part of what we want to do here. 'We want to develop players, ideally our own, but in somebody like Corrie Ndaba, there's been a plan there that he comes here, he does well and the potential of that is selling. 'I think what people need to realise is that sale is significant. The number and the price towards the football club is significant. I've never been a doom-and-gloom guy with those types of scenarios. 'Of course, you want to work with the best players but we need to try and create that conveyor belt. If we lose players for significant value for the football club, then we have to ensure that we try and replace them and try and go through that process again and again and again.' Kettlewell, whose side kick off their William Hill Premiership campaign at home to Livingston on Saturday, is keen to bolster his squad. 'We definitely have to look to bring in another one or two just to gain that balance to our squad,' he said. Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
