Thank you for your efforts, Neil.
Place your club hooded sweatshirt behind the Tynecastle reception at any time.
And don’t let the door knock on the back when leaving.
It should really be for Neil Crichley in Hearts.
You can speak of thin margins, missed chances, extenuating circumstances, bad arbitr and everything else until the cows come home.
When you are a manager who cannot win games that really count, he quickly arrives at the stadium where it is time.
And it doesn’t matter that the Jam Tarts finished him with nine men after sending the first half of the expulsion of Michael Steinwender and Cammy Devlin for a few moments before the replacement Oday Dabbagh scored the goal between the prolonged times that has put Aberdeen in the final of the Scottish Cup, which is the Facts Stark against Tynecastle Board after this last defeat.
Dabbagh celebrates his last winner of the Scottish Cup semi-final for Aberdeen on Hearts
Gueye’s header broke the dead end after bouncing Gordon and in the net
Shankland pulled the equalizer of hearts at home, but the nine men died in overtime
Gent support of 23,000 people did not concentrate their rage on Critichley over time. Referee John Beaton was allowed to absorb all the opprobrium after brandishing two red boxes which did not seem as scandalous as Critichley seemed to suggest the post-match.
It will surely come, however. There is a question to ask to find out if the events with Steinwender and Devlin buy him a little additional time, but a glance at the 46 -year record in the main matches is unacceptable to anyone’s eyes.
Three games against Hibs have made two defeats and a draw. Meetings with Celtic and Rangers won four defeats and 11 goals against. Faced with Aberdeen in the league, they only succeeded two draws. Chuck at Dundee United, to whom they fell at home very expensive recently, and they won six points over a possible 33 against the first five of the table under him.
It is even before we exploded the qualification for the Ko at home at Molddd Minnows FC Petrocub in their match of the closing league of UEFA in December.
He cannot continue. The CEO Andrew McKinlay almost admitted as much during the address of his website in the middle of the week by apologizing to the supporters for having failed to do the top six in the first.
Hearts manage a large salary ticket. Aberdeen has splashed the money themselves lately and it is probably a pinch between them as to who are the greatest expenditure that exceeds the old business, but one thing is clear. You cannot expel this kind of money and lean around where the hearts are at the moment.
One thing that could save Critichley is that Jamestown Analytics was involved in his appointment, but you really need to be able to add two and two to realize that the progress he has made since he has taken the relay of Steven Naismith in October was not sufficient. Hearts must aim more than beat the Diddy teams.
Of course, Aberdeen fans would be justified to wonder why yesterday’s victory for the victory is not more important. It’s probably because they had the chance to get away with that.
A goal in the wake of a slow and sloppy start after a head of Pope Gueye had hit the bar and went to goalkeeper Craig Gordon, they conceded to Captain of Coeurs Lawrence Shankland and turned a performance on the 90 regulation which was as gray and indefinable as changes in change.
Gordon’s first appropriate judgment only came the 101st minute when he had to go down to an unexpected effort by Kevin Nisbet. Admittedly, the donations accelerated a little in overtime and probably deserved their victory at the end, but it was not pretty.
The manager of Hearts Neil Crichley desperately needed a great result but did not failed Hampden
It is not that manager Jimmy Thelin cares when he is preparing for the first final of the Cup of his management career. He needed a great victory almost as much as Critichley following a campaign that started as a storm and threatened to lack wind since.
The opener of his team certainly came against the race of the game. They had been excruciatingly released in the early stadiums, moving the passes, losing possession in silly places, not making great breakthroughs in an offensive sense.
A few minutes later, their goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov failed to cope with a james Penrice curling ball, Shankland had a scan, then Jamie McCart pulled widely after seeming to use an arm. Elton Kabangu also achieved a great opportunity before donations took the lead about blue.
With 18 minutes at the chronometer, Leighton Clarkson delivered a good corner of Pacy from the left, Gueye went above the Knoester carpets and saw his head crash from the bottom of the bar and cross the line after a fortuitous deviation off the left knee of Gordon.
Gueye had to think that he was about to do it 2-0 just before half an hour when he threw himself on a Shayden Morris crossball, only for Cammy Devlin to fly and take off the ball with his head at the last moment.
This proved to be the most influential intervention in Aussia. In one minute, Hearts billed the field at the top and had done it 1-1. A ball from the left of Penrice missed everyone and went to Shankland on the right side of the region.
He checked it with his chest and broke a finely hit effort directly through the Mitov legs and in the net for his fifth goal of the countryside.
Shankland was a pale shadow of himself this quarter, but, for a certain time, it seemed that Critichley’s decision to recall it in the starting program after two games on the bench could well bear fruit.
He had certainly found the momentum on his side. It was, until Steinwender puts himself in the foreground. In truth, the Austrian looked a little wobbly in the back, its use of the ball particularly questionable sometimes.
Far from being so questionable, be careful, because her decision -making in the 44th minute when she was presented with Topi Keskinen heading to a gueye’s stroke in the central land area and putting sails for the goal.
Steinwender saw red just before half-time while the hearts offered the initiative to Aberdeen
Steinwender was too slow to put his tackle. Keskinen went to crash and referee Beaton immediately reached the red card. Keskinen would have been clean and the fault that prevented him from taking advantage of an opportunity as a scorer had to be punished.
Unfortunately, this moment also killed the game as a show. The second half was brutal – and that’s all about Aberdeen. Critichley kidnapped James Wilson and Kabangu at the break and pushed Frankie Kent and Craig Halkett to go on a back to three and could say that his side was always the best team to the extension.
It was then that Thelin’s men began to go to the top. After this nisbet effort was safely treated by Gordon, Dabbagh, thrown for Gueye, forced a good backup of the heart’s goalkeeper before Alexander Jensen widely stolen from a great position.
Devlin, already in the book for an earlier fault on Gueye, was then sent wrapped by Beaton when taking Dante Polvara while Hearts tried to empty their lines after a stroke of Okkels was saved by Gordon and Kent launched an effort to follow up on the line.
And, a few moments later, it was over. A goal won by a herd of supersubs, a bit like a good number of the goals of Thelin’s team during the glory days of the first part of the season.
Jamie McGrath put a bullet from the right, Jack Milne released a shot that Gordon could only Parry and Dabbagh leap to glue the high ball in the net.
Everything that was left for Hearts was that deputy director Mike Garrity was sent after the final whistle to approach Beaton. The next thing must surely be the whole coach staff who get their notes.
