{"id":72370,"date":"2026-03-22T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/hearts-why-derek-mcinnes-thinks-side-will-get-stronger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:28:31","slug":"hearts-why-derek-mcinnes-thinks-side-will-get-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/hearts-why-derek-mcinnes-thinks-side-will-get-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts: Why Derek McInnes thinks side &#8216;will get stronger&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hearts head coach Derek McInnes believes his side &#8220;will get stronger&#8221; for the Scottish Premiership run-in after victory over Dundee ensured the leaders will go into the international break still top of the pile.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cx2r9rj8227t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Oisin McEntee&#8217;s header secured victory<\/a> and a fourth consecutive 1-0 home league win for McInnes&#8217; side, while welcoming back captain Lawrence Shankland and key midfielder Cammy Devlin for the first time since January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic had moved four points closer to Hearts with those two players absent, with Rangers also narrowing the gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But having done enough to ensure they move into April leading the way McInnes believes returning players strengthen his hand for the final seven games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually think the belief that I&#8217;ve got in the team is even more than it&#8217;s ever been, because I know what&#8217;s coming behind it,&#8221; McInnes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know what&#8217;s coming back for Livingston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got [Tomas] Magnusson, [Harry] Milne and [Craig] Halkett back, and I should have [Stuart] Findlay and [Stephen] Kingsley back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my captain back now for another couple of weeks training, I&#8217;ve got Cammy Devlin back, I&#8217;ve got Beni Baningime back. We will get stronger, and we&#8217;re going to need that strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been tested of late but despite all that, we&#8217;re going to be top of the league in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re huge underdogs, but for us still to be where we are, churning out victories, as we did again, there&#8217;s a lot to be said for 1-0 victories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c62kmdx5edyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts head coach Derek McInnes believes his side &#8220;will get stronger&#8221; for the Scottish Premiership run-in after victory over Dundee ensured the leaders will go into the international break still top of the pile. Oisin McEntee&#8217;s header secured victory and a fourth consecutive 1-0 home league win for McInnes&#8217; side, while welcoming back captain Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[5253,2323,17219,2064,9445,11081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72372,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370\/revisions\/72372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}