POCKET ROCKETS

Jambo fab four can do a County and exploit the holes in Rangers

- RYAN STEVENSON

LAWRENCE SHANKLAND is the one everyone looks to as being Hearts' biggest weapon at Hampden.

But Jorge Grant can be massive, so too Barrie McKay, Alan Forrest, Kenneth Vargas.

If I'm a Hearts player I'd be smelling blood as I'm sitting watching Rangers tonight against Dundee.

And Steven Naismith is no better man to have for this semi-final situation.

Sunday can't come quickly enough because I'm sure every single Hearts player would have looked at that Rangers performance against Ross County last weekend and taken something from it.

Anything between the Rangers defence and midfield, if you can manage to get into those pockets and split those lines, they are struggling massively with it. In pretty much every game where Rangers have toiled, that has been their biggest issue.

Grant, McKay, Forrest, Vargas are all capable of getting into those little pockets of space and making things happen. Of course Lawrence can drop into those areas too.

But for County, I saw Simon Murray taking centre-halves away to leave a massive space between the back four and the midfield four of Rangers.

If Hearts can do that they can get joy. It's a bigger pitch but that means bigger spaces as well and this is a massive opportunity.

It's a source of frustration for me that they haven't done themselves justice against Rangers this season, especially given the fact two wins have been secured against Celtic.