PARFECT STORM

Jambos’ 100 per cent start goes as Stevie’s high fliers send out a title warning

BELOW-PAR Hearts lost for the first time this season as leaders Dunfermline sent out a Championship warning.

Second-half goals from Dom Thomas and Euan Murray sent the Pars top to remind the Jambos they are in a promotion fight.

And they were lucky not to ship more goals before Stephen Kingsley’s 84thminute header.

Jambos boss Robbie Neilson said: “It might be a bit of a wake-up call for us. It’s not panic stations.

“It’s about how we react to it. No one goes through the full season winning

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every game, Dunfermline will lose games. We didn’t take our chances and lost poor goals.”

The visitors came close to the opener a quarter of an hour in when Elliott Frear’s clipped free-kick was met by Mihai Popescu but the Romanian saw his effort hit the bar. Another set-piece soon after was a close shave for the Pars as well, Kingsley curling one narrowly wide with Owain Fon Williams beaten.

Fresh from Scotland duty, Craig Gordon was back to doing what he does best and produced a stunning reaction save from Murray’s header, neither of them realising the defender was offside.

Strikes from Ryan Dow and Olly Lee sailing over the respective crossbars aside, that was about it for the first half.

It was going to take a bit of magic or a bit of luck to beat Gordon and both arrived after the break.

Thomas drove infield from the right and let fly from the edge of the box.

His shot was well hit but a nick it took off Popescu’s knee and left Gordon helpless as it flew past him into the top corner.

There was nothing the keeper could do about the second as the tried-andtested combination of a Thomas corner on to Murray’s head made it 2-0.

Hearts then had their second half summed up in a matter of minutes.

First Liam Boyce met a Michael Smith cross with no one near him but directed his header straight at Fon Williams, who