Hearts defeat down to wrong tactics, admits East Kilbride boss as he turns attention to cup

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Boss Mick Kennedy held his hands up and admitted he got his tactics wrong after his Lowland League champions-elect suffered defeat to Hearts B last Friday night.Kilby require just a few more wins to wrap up the title early but suffered a slight setback when they went down 4-2 to the young Jambos.His side were struggling with injuries but he conceded mistakes were made in their approach to the game, which had them trailing 3-1 at the break before the hosts ran out 4-2 winners.Doubles from James Wilson and Callum Sandilands did the damage for Hearts, while John Robertson and Robert Thomson were on target for Kilby.And Kennedy said: “We changed the shape to a 3-5-2 with a couple of players out injured and we probably didn’t help the boys doing that.“Although we spent a bit of time working on it in training on Thursday, it wasn’t the brightest idea on reflection against a good Hearts team, who are good on the transition and at exploiting space.“It’s not the smartest move from me and sometimes you have to take a bit of responsibility.“We should have been equalising at 3-2 with some of the opportunities we missed but the shape didn’t help us and that’s why we were 3-1 down at half-time.“We obviously changed things at the break but we had no centre-halves and only three fully fit defenders.“It was one of those days where we were struggling for players.“Playing on the Tuesday night [in a 2-1 win away to Broomhill in the Lowland Cup] on a heavy pitch and then again on Friday, the boys looked a bit tired and leggy against a full-time team.”EK’s lead at the summit has been cut to 12 points by second place Cumbernauld Colts, while Tranent, who have two games in hand, are 15 points adrift.Kennedy added: “Tranent have got nine games