Hearts 1-1 Aberdeen reaction: Battling point but injury concerns for Neil Critchley

Ben Banks provides instant reaction to Hearts 1-1 Aberdeen in the Premiership.

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00:00Full time here at Tyne Castle, Hart won Aberdeen, won a battling performance from the Jambos

00:05in a game where they probably could have taken three points. It was a first half goal from

00:11Leighton Clarkson that opened the scoring after two pretty troubling injuries for Hart.

00:16Stephen Kingsley in particular going down in what looked like a lot of discomfort with

00:20Stretcherdorf. Neil Critchley confirmed in his post-match press conference he was in

00:24crutches in the dressing room. He'll be scanned in the next 48 hours with a hamstring injury.

00:28Frankie Kent went down with a quad injury as well and was also substituted. So it was

00:32a makeshift back line by the time we got to half time. Craig Halkett as well in the middle

00:36of the defensive came on, only just about made the game after some minor back problems

00:40as well which he battled through throughout the game. But Harts were much improved in

00:44the second half again and were the better team. Created some chances, Misadrama taking

00:50one of them, a Blair Spittle cross. He bundled it in, he's claiming it, but it did come off

00:54Nicky Devlin so maybe a bit of dubiety as to who actually got that. But Misadrama certainly

00:58claiming it and they battled Harts towards the end, they huffed and puffed. Georgie Grant

01:03had a chance at near the end. Shankland had a few half chances as well. Aberdeen came

01:08close on a couple of occasions at 1-0 up that Craig Gordon saved. But overall, a decent

01:13battling point for Harts and they'll move on to next week's match away at home to Dundee

01:19sorry after a week's break which is probably much needed after a testing week. They've

01:24had Rangers, Celtic, Cercle Brugiae, Heidenheim all in the last four or five fixtures. So

01:30a week's break from action will do the team, or six days at least, will do the team a bit

01:34of good before they come back here to play Dundee and then another testing run of fixtures

01:39kicks off.