Hearts manager Csaba Laszlo has been lamenting his team’s tendency to gift cheap goals to their opposition, with Saturday’s incredibly soft concession of the opening goal to Celtic being the latest example.
The team have had to show real character lately to snatch points after losing early goals, and the performance on Saturday against the champions was arguably their best yet when having to recover from a goal down.
However Csaba is rightly annoyed with the ease in which some teams have been able to take the lead against Hearts, knowing fine well that without some of the glaring errors we’ve seen throughout the season, the team could already have secured their place in European competition next season.
In true Laszlo ‘rent-a-quote’ style, the Hearts manager said:
‘When I look at some of the goals we’ve given to the opposition this season it makes me crazy.
‘We gave away Christmas presents at that time of the year. Then against Rangers we gave them Mother’s Day gifts at Ibrox.
‘And in this game we gave Celtic the present of a huge Easter Egg early on’.
It’s another good Csaba quote, but looking beyond the obvious comedy here, there is a very accurate point being made. If Hearts can cut out the basic mistakes then they really could be putting in a serious challenge at the right end of the table, so the sooner that the levels of concentration can be worked upon to sort that out, the better.
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What a joke. The worst third placed team in the history of Scottish football actually celebrated when the final whistle went. Think about it you clown! Hearts were at home on Saturday, and CELEBRATED a draw at home. What does that tell you? They were a tgoal down inside the first minute, so a fightback isn’t exactly on anyones lips! There were 90 minutes to get that goal back! Keep celebrating a draw Hearts fans. It sums up your ambition.
excuse me?
Aww weetime67 is wenting his anger maybee he never got an easter egg?!
Actually weetim67 makes a good point – so long as Hearts are happy with a point at home they will be happy to be third. It was the same in Burley’s season when Hearts made such a good start, came to Celtic Park, earned a point – and practically went on a lap of honour. That winning mentality just isn’t there.
I think that both weetim67 (his IQ perhaps?) and tim4life are being a tad unfair. Yes, I understand that a draw at home isn’t necessarily something to overly celebrate but please put this into context. We were rank rotten last year finishing 8th. We didn’t start the season all that better with a new manager who was unfamiliar with the game in Scotland. It would seem we also had a disaffected squad who did not believe in themselves. Fast forward a few months and we put in an excellent performance after going a goal behind against the leaders and possibly Champions elect – worth a wee celebration I think. The stranglehold duopoly that the Glasgow clubs have on our game cannot be broken and sustained unless it’s done in a measured and incremental way. I’d be very happy with “settleing” for 3rd for the next couple of seasons if it means that we are progressing. Then we should be able to mount a credible and lasting challenge – in theory. So, in other words – sod off!
Actually, I hate to go against my fellow Jambos, but I kind of agree with weetim. I thought it was two valuable points dropped on Saturday, and such was our dominance (apart from the Celtic ‘easter egg’ goal and the last 15 minutes when we tired). In context, from 8th last season, to putting the fear of God up Celtic & Rangers, the progress is excellent & should be celebrated – but I was disappointed with the result if not the performance. Hopefully next season the ‘winning mentality’ will be instilled more clearly into the players. Neither of the OF are any great shakes, and we paid them far too much respect IMO.
Sorry, meant to say “such was our dominance (…), we should have put the game to bed”.
I’m with INM in his assessment …. all things are relative. But it would indeed be great if in a couple of years time, we have players with the winning mentality which our Celtic friends allude to. With Csaba in charge, anything is possible !!
By the way, I loved Csaba’s comment after the Ibrox game – “In die first holf, we drive die Trabant. But in die second holf, we drive die BMW”. You can’t help but love the man !!
Indeed. But will he win MOTY?
I certainly don’t think a home draw against Celtic is anything to necessarily celebrate (the Hearts performance was good though), but what was the relevance of that to this article? The subject here is Csaba commenting on cutting out basic errors – how exactly did that manage to provoke a typically aggressive tirade from the Shellik fan? Ah well…….let’s just be happy that we’re playing in “the worst league in the history of Scottish football”….
Typical newspaper interview, where a manager states the obvious. But I reckon our lack of a goalscorer has cost us many more points than the odd gift to the other team. As a certain Mr Burley stated during his first interview at Tynecastle 4 years ago – “I’m a 3-2 manager, not a 1-0 manager”
To be fair Hearts may be the worst 3rd place team in Scottish football history but at the moment the worst 1st and 2nd up to 12th place teams are also doing the rounds. I always hate it when managers say they are going into OF games hoping for draws etc. I honestly think that the negative attitude of managers or the fear of managers and teams partly costs teams results. This is the point where I reckon Csaba has the right ideas. He goes into OF games not commenting on how strong the OF are, or at least nowhere near as much as Tango Man.
I have to agree with itsnomarooned – we’ve come a long way since last season – it’s a shame we didn’t start the season the way we are going now – if we had we would be contentenders for seriously threatening the OF (well second place anyway) – I would have settled for a draw before the start of the match knowing that we can deal with the best of the rest – let’s hope that Csaba can get the boys to hold on to 3rd place and look out next season OF.
Welcome along to the site, AussieJambo – good to have your contributions… please keep them coming !!
Yeah welcome aboard AussieJambo!
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Wow … thats must have been one heck of a 4-lettered rant, SJ !!
Heh – needless to say what I tried didn’t work on this “qwality” forum we have here. It was meant to say ‘Welcome also, Aussie Jambo!’ in upside-down text (because he’s reading it upside down… geddit? oh nevermind…). And of course, you can’t delete or edit what you’ve written. Hey ho.
Thanks for the welcome guys – esp. SJ – I understood perfectly what you were trying to say – try standing on your head Specs Haver