Hearts defender Stephen Kingsley says the run of injuries at Tynecastle is something that he hasn't come across before.
The Jambos have a full XI's worth of fitness concerns to deal with after blows to Andy Halliday and Peter Haring in the weekend's 2-0 Premiership loss at Aberdeen. Their Europa Conference League knockout round hopes are uphill after losing to Fiorentina last week and Hearts are currently in the league's bottom six.
Kingsley has been injured at times this term and insists it's a situation Robbie Neilson's men have to try and get to the other side of. He told Edinburgh Evening News : "I’ve never really seen anything like it, to be honest. I feel like every game we are getting another injury. It’s not just a slight knock, it’s something needing looked at and possibly a few weeks out. I’ve never seen this magnitude of bad injuries, like minimum two-week injuries.
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"The gaffer has said 11 first-team players are missing. It’s a period we are going through and we need to see out. We can only do that by sticking together and trying to grind out some results.
“I thought in spells we played well at Pittodrie, we had possession and created chances. It’s really been the story of our last few games that we are losing poor goals.
"That was another two poor ones on Sunday and they cost us. Something needs to change soon. With the injury situation, we really need to stand up and be counted.”
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