Steven Naismith knows what's killing Hearts as under fire boss reveals remaining transfer window plans

Steven Naismith slammed his sloppy Hearts defence as they made it five games without a win - stating that soft goals are KILLING them.

The Jambos flopped 3-1 at Motherwell to sit third bottom of the table with just one point ahead of a massive Europa League play-off with Viktoria Plzen at Tynecastle on Thursday night. And Naismith has warned his players they need to be much better at both ends of the park if they’re to end their search for a win with a monumental result against the Czechs.

He said: “Every goal we've conceded this season has been really, really poor. That puts you on the back foot in any game. In the final third, our final pass and decision-making was poor and when we got shots we didn't make the most of them. In both boxes, we're not at the level we need to be at. It's just the goals. They impact games massively and that's what's killing us again.

"The goals we're conceding are individual mistakes. If you look at some of the performances, against Falkirk we started well and had four good chances, against Plzen the other night we performed really well, and then even today in spells I thought we got into good positions where we needed to score a goal or make the goalkeeper make a save but we didn't do that.”

Motherwell’s first two goals came from set pieces and Naismith said: “It’s poor. There’s nothing else to be said. Even the third goal is poor. Every goal we have conceded we’ve given a helping hand to the opposition.

“There’s not one goal I’ve looked and thought ‘wow that’s great play. Our decision making, quality of defending and timing of when we drop has been really poor and it’s costing us big time at the moment

“You need to take responsibility for your actions and what your job is in specific