Source: PA
Fitness boost for Elliot
Calum Elliot will have a scan on his injured knee which will hopefully reveal he is in with a chance of facing Dundee United in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League on Sunday.
The in-form Hearts striker, who has scored three goals in his first two SPL games this season, missed Tuesday night's 4-0 Co-operative Insurance Cup victory over Elgin City with the injury sustained in training during preparations for the game.
Tynecastle medical staff had suspected cartilage trouble but the Hearts doctor has told manager Jim Jefferies the injury is not as bad as initially feared and the player was to be scanned today as a precaution.
"It's not the knee he had problems with before, it's the other one," Jefferies told Edinburgh Evening News. "He caught his studs in the turf as he turned and we feared the worst.
"The doctor looked at it last night and it looks like it's not as bad as we feared. We thought it might have been his cartilage but the doc doesn't think so.
"We will scan it just to get it right but the doc doesn't think it's the cartilage. If that's right he'll have a chance for the weekend."
