Cammy Devlin admits Hearts need to be 'braver and harder' as he urges Jambos to reward Tynecastle faithful

Cammy Devlin insists it’ll take brave Hearts if Turkish Super Lig high fliers Istanbul Basaksehir are to be scalped at Tynecastle on Thursday.

Defeat at Livingston made it five losses in six games going into the Europa Conference League Group A opener. Aussie battler Devlin is adamant there’s no confidence crisis in the Jambos squad despite another flaky performance at the Tony Macaroni Arena. But he accepts the men in maroon need to rediscover their bravado in time for Mesut Ozil and co arriving in Gorgie.

Cristian Montano was afforded the freedom of the Hearts penalty area to score the only goal of the game after 28 minutes on Saturday. That knocked the stuffing out of the Jambos who had been the better of the two up to that stage but ended the 90 minutes without registering a single shot on target. Had it not been for Craig Gordon pulling off three impressive saves in the closing stages it could have been worse.

But Devlin insists a sold out Tynecastle under the lights is the perfect stage to re-energise a side that had crashed out of the League Cup to Kilmarnock three days before their Livi woe. And he admits it’s time to give something back to the supporters.

The midfielder said: “It’s a tough place to come Livi. We have to rise above that and in the first 20 we created numerous opportunities.

“We went away from what was working and we got put under a bit of pressure. We went in our shells a bit.

“They got a goal and it was the same as Kilmarnock. When you go a goal down to these sort of teams, it becomes harder. We didn’t help ourselves today.

“We have to be braver and harder. That’s not good enough when playing for Hearts. We’ve got to bounce back quickly on Thursday.

“We’re all super excited about being in