Hearts fall victim to Angeball but Shankland shows he's just as deadly in Tottenham thrashing with 2 main takeaways

Angeball is still deadly. And so is Lawrence Shankland.

Two takeaways from a right good pre-season friendly at Tynecastle as the Premier League giants eventually ran out comfortable 5-1 winners - but only after Shankland had shown he’s as clinical as ever. Former Celtic boss Postecoglou brought a team worth hundreds of millions to the capital and it showed at times as they kept the ball for fun.

Not quite at its fine-tuned best. But Spurs were still too hot for a Hearts side that put up a fight only to be undone by a team that finished fifth in the megabucks EPL just two months ago. No disgrace in that. Especially in a pre-season friendly from which the Jambos can take much heart. But when the likes of James Maddison, Heung-Min Son and Brennan Johnson - three players who cost over £100m combined - turn it on there’s little anyone can do.

That’s the problem with glamour friendlies against Premier League opposition. Reality soon bites. And it bit soon after Shankland climbed off the bench at half time to do what he does best - find the net for Hearts.

The Tynecastle skipper took less than a minute of the second half to pounce on an Emerson Royal mistake and level the scores with a ruthless attacking impact that would have impressed even Postecoglou. But that just angered the Londoners who went on to net four more times after Johnson’s opener to head down the road with a 5-1 win in the bag.

Postecoglou was back at the venue where he lost his first Premiership game in charge of Celtic - but where he also sealed the second of two back-to-back titles. Beside him he had a man who was far more recently acquainted with Tynecastle’s away dug out - Nick Montgomery - as the ex-Hibs man made his debut as first team coach with Spurs