Jefferies pleased by sharp shooters

Hearts manager Jim Jefferies has expressed his pleasure at the early goalscoring prowess of his side after they made it back-to-back 4-0 wins. The Jambos began the season with a draw against St Johnstone but have since routed Hamilton and then Elgin in the Co-operative Insurance Cup last night.Six players have scored Hearts' nine goals so far this term and Jefferies is delighted to see players taking the burden off the shoulders of Kevin Kyle.He said: "It was virtually a 4-2-4 formation against Elgin, with the two young boys (David Templeton and Novikovas) having a licence to go and play and get at them, get the crosses in."That is also why I played Craig Thomson at right-back because he has got great delivery and I knew he would get on the ball wide."I think it was him who put the cross in for Kyle's goal, which was fantastic."There were two or three great balls in and the goalkeeper made marvellous saves."Eggert, Kyle, Novikovas and Robinson shared the goals around which is good."Kevin could have had a hat-trick if hadn't been for their keeper and Ryan Stevenson was unlucky with one as well. We were very pleased."Hearts last lifted the League Cup in season 1962-63, but Jefferies is refusing to get carried away after progressing against the Third Division's bottom club.The former Kilmarnock boss, who lifted the Scottish Cup in his first spell at Hearts in 1998, knows the luck of the draw is crucial to their hopes.He added: "It would be nice to get to another final and then have a crack at it, but you just have to see what the draw brings and do the best you can."Calum Elliot missed the win over Elgin with a knee injury but was due to have a scan today that could show he has a chance of facing Dundee United on Sunday."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."It was a blow to us that Calum wasn't available last night because we would have played him with him being on fire right now."He's probably wishing he did play because he might have got a few goals as we were in such command."

Source: Team_Talk