Cammy Devlin insists it’ll take brave Hearts if Turkish Super Lig high fliers Istanbul Basaksehir are to be scalped at Tynecastle on Thursday.
Defeat at Livingston made it five losses in six games going into the Europa Conference League Group A opener. Aussie battler Devlin is adamant there’s no confidence crisis in the Jambos squad despite another flaky performance at the Tony Macaroni Arena. But he accepts the men in maroon need to rediscover their bravado in time for Mesut Ozil and co arriving in Gorgie.
Cristian Montano was afforded the freedom of the Hearts penalty area to score the only goal of the game after 28 minutes on Saturday. That knocked the stuffing out of the Jambos who had been the better of the two up to that stage but ended the 90 minutes without registering a single shot on target. Had it not been for Craig Gordon pulling off three impressive saves in the closing stages it could have been worse.
