Hearts 3-1 Motherwell: What the manager said

Hearts head coach Derek McInnes recognises that his side had "a bit of fortune" but is happy to go into warm-weather training in Spain during the international break still at the top of the Scottish Premiership after a 3-1 win over Motherwell.

"It is good to go into it with a big win because the game was in the balance for a while there," he told BBC Scotland.

"We'll not get carried away. But we have shown, with five games to go, they keep doing their jobs and we just need to keep doing that for a while longer."

Hearts had to come from behind to beat the fourth-top visitors.

"I thought it was a really good game, fiercely contested," McInnes said

"I think we saw a lot of the good in both teams. Some things we could do better, Motherwell will be disappointed at one or two of their bigger chances.

"But I thought we were the better team in the first half. We shaded it just in terms of Motherwell didn't really connect the game they normally do.

"But they did get a couple of shots from the edge of the box. They are good at creating that space in front of centre-halfs.

"They caused us a bit of anxiety with their speed. Longelo, Maswanhise, Just and Said, they are all lovely footballers, but I thought in the main we dealt with it really well.

"It has hard to keep a good team round and there was a feeling when we went 1-0 down, we had it all to do.

"It was important we stayed calm. I reverted to my 4-4-2. Sometimes it is good to go back to the familiar, but it gave them more control in the middle of the park, so we reverted back and I thought we were far better.

"We had some good moments, I thought my subs did well and obviously a great goal from [Claudio] Braga gets us back on our way.

"Nobody was settling for 1-1. We tried to put stress on their back-line. I wasn't sure about the penalty, but everyone who's seen it back says it is a penalty - he gets kicked in the head.

"Lawrence Shankland tucks it away brilliantly and Kabore finishes it off. So your three strikers scoring. We were strong in the last 10 minutes to see it out for a great three points."