Leaders Hearts in ‘dreamland’ but might it get even better?

Perhaps Hearts’ CEO Andrew McKinlay was right when he blatantly declared “we will win the league” before Dundee’s visit with four more goals, three more points, and nine points clear of the Scottish Premiership.

The Tynecastle side are strengthening their credentials with each game as they strive to break the Old Firm’s title duopoly, though he did make the claim that it might not be this season rather one more in the future.

Head coach Derek McInnes was more reserved when he said it was “a good reference point” to complete a quarter of the league season in such a positive position.

Hearts’ victory on Wednesday on their way to Paisley made it possible for Celtic to close the gap to six.

However, his team extended their lead with a 4-0 victory over Dundee as the reigning champions were out on League Cup duty this weekend.

And McInnes acknowledged that, if we had won today, the St. Mirren point would be brilliant and significant.

Can we be above Celtic before we play them, we asked players a few weeks ago. ‘. Can we then become the league’s top team after the opening round of games? ‘.

The first eleven games featured heart-pounding statistics.

McInnes’ side are one win away from reaching the milestone that they did at the start of the 2005-2006 campaign with 29 points, but they do not currently have a megalomaniac owner ready to fire the manager.

Hearts is the division’s only unbeaten side in their last 15 Premiership games, which is their longest unbeaten streak in more than ten years.

No side has let them score, and they have at least once in each of those 15 games, which is their best run in a decade.

A striker is reborn in Lawrence Shankland. The Scotland international won seven Premiership titles in his third game against Dundee, propelling him to the top of the charts. His overall ranking of 10 already surpasses that of the previous season.

The team also completed 610 passes on Saturday, which is their highest total in a league game this season, with midfielder Cammy Devlin completing 109 passes, which is the team’s highest total this season.

Although everything appears to be moving in the right direction, McInnes claimed that the squad is “getting stronger” and that “we feel there is a little more in us.”

The bedrock for many of our results has been the clean sheets, he continued, “We have good wide players, we have midfielders who control the game.”

“We don’t always find that balance, but we do seem to find it.”

By allowing injury niggles to plague new cult hero forward Claudio Braga and established defenders Craig Halkett and Stephen Kingsley, McInnes acknowledged that “we took a bit of a risk.”

However, the fact that Braga’s replacement, Pierre Landry Kabore, scored the team’s first two Hearts goals, another indication of how strong the squad is, helped by their summer collaboration with Tony Bloom and his Jamestown Analytics team.

It’s no wonder McKinlay spoke to BBC 5 Live in such a hushed manner before the kickoff.

The chief executive declared, “It’s dreamland and we’re enjoying it.” The two large teams that dominate in Scottish football are criticized, and there has only been one dominant team in the last ten years.

It’s fantastic for Scottish football, but Hearts is also fantastic. Let’s make the most of it because we were bottom of the league last year and are now at the top.

With interim leadership from Martin O’Neill and the multi-trophy champion playing in hand, Celtic have a game in hand. Rangers, 14 points adrift in fourth place, will hope for a revival under Danny Rohl, their new head coach.

McKinlay, however, is encouraged by Bloom’s influence in Belgium’s Union Saint-Gilloise and Brighton.

We can keep going because we’re not just here for a short while, he continued. When we consider how the analytics has worked well at other clubs, Tony has a lot of belief.

“We genuinely believe that this opportunity is fantastic.” Although I’m not saying that we’ll win the league this year, this is not our only chance, though.

We think we’re doing something really good here, and we anticipate that as the seasons progress.

We’re confident that Champions League music will be playing here at some point because USG were almost relegated from the second tier and won the [Belgian] league within seven years.