Robbie Neilson knows Hearts need to get their house in order as their grip on third place is slipping.
The Tynecastle boss is concerned that his players did not win their personal battles in the 2-1 defeat at Kilmarnock which comes hard on he heels of a 3-0 loss at Pittodrie, despite opening the scoring through Lawrence Shankland and Killie having Rory MacKenzie sent off.
It allowed Aberdeen to narrow the gap to only one point from the third placed Edinburgh side and Neilson is adamant the cure for recent ills must come from within. He said: "We can talk about tactics, we'll do this and that, but it's player against player. If we look at the game today, if everyone looks individually and says 'did we play better, out muscle or out fight the player we were playing against' they would probably say no.
