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McInnes on injury latest, title psychology & overachieving

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Hearts head coach Derek McInnes has been speaking to the media before Sunday's trip to Livingston. Craig Halkett and Stephen Kingsley are ready after injury and Stuart Findlay could also make a comeback. Beni Baningime has had a full week of training and McInnes is "grateful to get him back".

Hearts head coach Derek McInnes has been speaking to the media before Sunday's trip to Livingston . Here are the main points: Craig Halkett and Stephen Kingsley are ready after injury and Stuart Findlay could also make a comeback. But Tomas Magnusson misses out with a thigh strain and Harry Milne is also absent.

Beni Baningime has had a full week of training and McInnes is "grateful to get him back". The head coach is also hopeful Craig Gordon could return before the end of the season. With two games to go until the split, McInnes is hoping his side head into it "in good form with the best points tallies we possibly can get" but knows to do that they'll "have to deal with a couple of really tough games, starting on Sunday at Livingston".

The Hearts boss doesn't feel there is any psychological advantage to playing either before or after fellow title contenders: "I've never really gone into any game thinking we can psychologically damage another team. " He doesn't have a points total in mind that would win the league and is only looking to have the "best points tally they can". He adds: "I think the split will sort it out and whoever's top of the league after the split deserves to be there.

" Despite not having won since August, McInnes says bottom club Livingston have a "real competitive element" to their play. He says everyone at Hearts is "pretty calm" with their place at the top of the table: "We've been here a long time now, we're comfortable with it. " McInnes says three Premiership teams - "Falkirk, Motherwell and ourselves" - have overachieved this season: "You couldn't say that about everybody but I think us three are probably ahead of where we thought we could have been.