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Lithuanian national team and "Hearts" forward Edgaras Jankauskas felt how quickly from a hero you can become the scapegoat of your team's failure - even though on Wednesday he scored a winning goal in the match against "Kilmarnock", on Saturday in the Edinburgh derby he earned a red card and his team later had to admit the superiority of "Hibernian" and suffer their first season loss.
Scotland's league leader "Hearts" had not lost in 12 consecutive matches before these games and had crushed their opponents 4-0 in the first derby of the season, but now they had to play away and with a temporarily appointed coach. E. Jankauskas started the match in the starting lineup, S. Mikoliunas remained on the bench, and D. Cesnauskis was not registered.
For over an hour the match was evenly balanced and both teams had opportunities to score, but in the 62nd minute the situation for "Hearts" complicated. S. Brown once again roughly played by stepping on E. Jankauskas' foot, and the enraged Lithuanian pushed the opponent. For this, the referee showed him a second yellow card and sent him off the field, while S. Brown remained unpunished. Overall, the match referee showed five yellow cards to the "Hearts" team and none to the "Hibernian" players.
In the remaining ten, the "Hearts" team could not resist the opponents. In the 78th minute, G. Beuzelinas put the hosts ahead, and just two minutes later G. O'Connor doubled the lead and practically buried the hopes of the visitors to avoid failure. Now, V. Romanov's team, having suffered their first loss, can try to win against "Dundee Utd" on Sunday for "Celtic", while "Hibernian" lag behind the leader by four points.
The poor game of the country's champion Glasgow "Rangers" continues - this time they failed to beat "Inverness" at their own field and had to settle for a draw. "Kilmarnock" moved up to fifth place, winning against "Aberdeen" in a tough match, "Motherwell" holds the sixth place, having beaten "Dunfermline" away, and the match between the bottom teams "Livingston" and "Falkirk" ended in a draw.
Results of Matchday 13:
0 - 3 57' [0 - 1] Brian Kerr 62' [0 - 2] Martyn Corrigan 80' [0 - 3] Jim Hamilton
1 - 1 20' [1 - 0] Harald Pinxten (own goal) 88' [1 - 1] Robert Snodgrass
2 - 0 78' [1 - 0] Guillaume Beuzelin 80' [2 - 0] Garry O'Connor
4 - 2 15' [0 - 1] Russell Anderson 18' [1 - 1] Simon Ford 19' [2 - 1] Danny Invincibile 47' [3 - 1] Kris Boyd 57' [4 - 1] Kris Boyd 71' [4 - 2] Stevie Crawford
1 - 1 26' [0 - 1] Craig Dargo 54' [1 - 1] Steven Thompson
