Paulo Sergio hails ‘sweat and blood’
IT TOOK blood, sweat and a bit of bold positional tinkering to get Hearts through to the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup according to their manager Paulo Sergio. But as far as his opposite number was concerned it was a poor piece of refereeing which proved decisive.
Bemoaning the Hearts equaliser in the dying seconds of the match, when Suso Santana won a penalty, Steve Lomas said the officials had been conned. “Ten seconds from the end, that’s a massive call from him. Hearts will probably say they think it was a penalty but I’ve seen it again and it was very, very soft. The boy chops it inside and loses control of the ball and just falls against Alan Maybury. The ball goes about six yards from him but he sees Maybs and falls against him.”
Believing the game was over after Murray Davidson had netted in the 83rd minute, Lomas said he had been happy with his team’s performance. “But you need a bit of luck in the cup and we didn’t get it,” he added. “I don’t want to criticise the referee because you get in trouble but I don’t know what the ref expects him to do, the guy just falls into him.”
Sergio was more concerned with the extra-time winner. With Marius Zaliukas utilised as a makeshift striker in a bid to seal the deal before penalties, the captain repaid him with a winner three minutes from full time. “Playing him as a striker, I always believed something could happen. The game was not over. I think it was well deserved. There was a lot of sweat and blood on the pitch.”
But Sergio acknowledged that it had been tough. “Both games have been tight but we tried something different. It wasn’t beautiful but the important thing was we won.”
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First Green
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 08:29 PMIn 2012 Hearts have had one terrible decision against them but it hardly mattered as they lost 4v0 anyway but they`ve had big decisions in their favour in almost every other game (offisde goal against us,AT goal disallowed in cup,yesterday`s penalty,sending off of St J player in Gorgie, etc). With fair refereeing you`d be out of cup and probably not in top 6. Hopefully there`ll be fairer refereeing in rest of season.
busbyfth
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 08:29 PM# 5 & 1 Meant to include the FFFHibs boss rather than saying Killie.
busbyfth
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 08:28 PM# 1.....or especially the Killie boss.........have those three whingers got anything in common ?
Hen Broon
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 02:14 PMWould like to see it again. It was right in front of me & looked like a pen albeit soft. However I am honest enough to admit sometimes you see what you want to see! Either way SUSO did not dive. There appears to be a perception that it can only be a PEN or a dive.....it can be neither!
LionRampant
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:54 AMsurprised Lomas didn't mention the penalty Hearts should have had in the first tie at Tynie - sort of evens things up don't you think?
Baldrick
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 08:05 AMSounds like it Hammy. When we scored against Celtic and the ref waved it away, Paulo was extremely diplomatic. Mr Lomas will see a scoreline of 1-2 in the papers and he will have to live with it. A lot better than 1-5 which was the last one he saw. As for Shiels, he should be cringing with embarassment. His crowd went out of the Cup to Hibs! Doesn't get much worse than that.
Hammy1874
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 07:50 AMDid Whinging Lomas go to the same school as Kenny "the chosen one" Shiels?
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