After starting the league season, HIBS was held by their main coach while changing its competitors in the city. It seems that both strategies have worked.
When the two sides tied 1-1 on Easter Street in October, Neil Critichly left three games after Neil Cretchley Stephen Naisameth left, they were linked to points at the foot of the table, with Hips Rock at the bottom of the target.
Few at that time they would have imagined chances of either finishing the season in third place.
After Hibs 2-1 won in Tynecastle on boxing day, the hearts were still stuck at the second bottom, while winning the visitors only raised five points from the landing point of landing, albeit until the seventh.
However, Derby turned on Sunday from being a battle of landing to a race to secure a place in the first half, as HIBS moved to fourth and hearts to sixth place – for the first time since August – after both enjoyed 3-1 in the middle of the week.
In fact, they both will firmly put their scenes to hunt the Aberdeen team, which regained the third place after finishing a bleak talisman on their own, but they suffered from 5-1 leaders of Celtic on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, the hearts cannot slip this time because it is heading to the other side of Edinburgh Castle, given that it is four points behind Hibs and Dunde United – and another point of Dons.
The Critchley team suffered only one defeat – to Rangers in second place – in 12 pouring and seven unbeatable on the road.
However, the David Gray hosts in a more impressive race were not defeated from 14, winning 10 of them, eight of them in Easter Road.
An author from Derby Cracker will appear reassuring after Hibs and Hearts have shown his new flexibility by returning from a goal to overited and St. Mirren, respectively, on Wednesday.
With seven goals in eight games since she arrived on loan from Union Saint-Gilliise, striker Elton Kabangu had an effective role in pushing Hares in the middle of the season and will provide a strict test for defensive stability that was the basis for Hibs.
In fact, the hearts lost only one of its latest visits to Easter Road, and successive games have not lost against HIBS since 2009 and it was a team to end their competitors in their city the last time they went to 12 league games in 2018.
