HAUD YER FOURCES

Del concedes he stuck TOO MANY attacking players in his XI as quartet can't KO Terrors

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DEREK McINNES admits his attacking lineup backfired after watching below-par Hearts battle out a draw with Dundee United.

But the Jambos gaffer admits his team were also guilty of being too emotional in a chaotic, end-to-end game that would not have looked out of place on a basketball court.

McInnes was desperate to fit the inform Landry Kabore into his team.

And he threw caution to the wind by starting with the Burkina Faso international in an attacking quartet that included skipper Lawrence Shankland, Claudio Braga and Alexandros Kyziridis.

It worked for a spell, the leaders going in front through United keeper Yevhenii Kucherenko's own goal.

But Hearts always looked vulnerable at the other end and United levelled just before the break through Luca Stephenson.

McInnes made changes at the break by bringing on defenders Michael Steinwender and Stephen Kingsley but Hearts still lacked their usual cutting edge in having to settle for a share of the spoils.

The Hearts boss said: “We possibly had one attacking player on the pitch too many and tried to address it at halftime.

“I was hoping to get to halftime without being punished for it but lost a goal on the stroke of halftime.

“We played a front two of Kabore and Shankland, with Braga in behind.

“That was the intention - to try to get Harry (Milne) and Oisin (McEntee) on the outside of their front two.