Jefferies: Emphatic win was deserved

Hearts boss Jim Jefferies felt the comprehensive 4-0 victory over Elgin City was the least his side deserved in the Co-op Cup on Tuesday night. The SPL side eased into the third round with two goals in each half against the Third Division strugglers.Eggert Jonsson and Kevin Kyle, making his first start for Hearts, netted before the interval with Arvydas Novikovas and substitute Scott Robinson providing gloss to the scoreline.Jefferies felt his charges could have plundered even more, but the heroics of Steven Dunn in the Moray men's goal kept the tally down.He said: "It was one of those nights. Justice would have been 5-0 at half-time, but credit to the goalie, he kept it down to two-nothing."You are looking for that third goal to kill them off which came."I think then after that we knew the game was won and we were a bit slack, people tired like Kevin."We gave it away too much for my liking but wee Scott came on and got a great little finish. Four-nil was well justified I think."The lower-division clubs are looking for a shock but there was so much gulf in class. They did well to keep the score down to four."Given Elgin had conceded 13 goals in three opening league defeats to their season, a 4-0 result was not an embarrassment at Tynecastle.Indeed, they had chances after the interval but Janos Balogh kept them at bay.Elgin manager Ross Jack added: "Our goalkeeper did very well."They had a barrage of shots, but we defended well - we had to try and keep them out. Their first goal took a wicked deletion and the third."But they are a great team and they passed the ball extremely well, loads of energy, loads of pace, worked extremely hard."They gave our boys a bit of a lesson but I don't think we were disgraced and gave a good account of ourselves, especially in the second half."We broke forward and had a couple of half-chances."

Source: Team_Talk