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Ross County 2-2 Hearts: What the head coach said

Hearts' head coach Neil Critchley: "A crazy two minutes has cost us three points. Until the 96th minute, it's been a really good team performance in difficult conditions.

"We produce two moments of quality, we're in front and comfortable but we don't defend the penalty on two occasions near the end of the game and it's cost us three points. To say that is hard to take would be an understatement.

"We should [see it out], the game is never over until it's over. The game should be over, but we don't stop the ball coming into the box well enough, which we'd done very well until that moment. To come away with one point feels like a defeat.

"Sometimes it's too simplistic to say [mentality is a concern]. Today it was lapses. For 96 minutes we were competitive, our mentality was good, we defended corners well. But if you don't do that until the end of the game, two moments cost you.

"We're in a period where moments are going us. That's on us as a group, to do better than that. It's difficult to win games of football. You have to go from the first minute to the last and do the basics well enough and we haven't done that until the end.

"It's a penalty. I don't understand why the referee is called over to the monitor. He's given a penalty, it's a factual decision. There might be contact just outside, but contact carries on inside the box. He gives a foul. It has to be clear and obvious, for me that's not. You look at the Old Firm in the final week. I'd have thought they cleared that up by now. Obviously not."