Let's be honest - not even Pinocchio would have predicted a Hearts win over his hometown club Fiorentina.
That said, the Florence born wooden boy whose nose grows when he lies would have been stretching the truth had claimed to have anticipated the ease of yet another Scottish club's continental humiliation. A reality biting week for our game just got a whole lot worse as the Jambos who like Rangers and Celtic before them, discovered the class requirements at their respective continental levels are well beyond them.
The bookies had priced it up at 18/1 shot for Robbie Neilson 's side to pull off a shock, it was clear within five minutes any fool who'd backed the men in maroon that they and their money would be all too easily parted. Goals from Luka Jovic, Cristiano Biraghi, Nicolas Gonzalez, and Antonin Barak had the Serie A side four goals ahead at the interval as a lightweight makeshift defence time and again malfunctioned. Stephen Humphrys hit a consolation after the break before Gonzalez made it five.
