January signing Elton Kabbago helped another double double, while Hearts enhanced the search for a top spot in the Scottish Premiership with hard victories from 2-1 to the lower side of St. Johnstone.
The Belgian striker bounced off a series of chanses in a 3-1 3-1 weekend by Rangers to take his sum to seven of his arrival on loan from Union Saint-Gilloise last month, while recorded both sides of Adam equalization Sidibeha.
It was the third double Kabbaga in just six starts for Jambos, which are now on the seventh and within the point of St. Mirrena of sixth place after being the bottom of the league by December 22.
Instead, these are the saints – after the third consecutive 2-1 defeat of the heart, this term – which at the foot of the table decays six points at the base of Dundee, although they were entitled to a stunning match from goalkeeper Craig Gordon to give up to renounce Curtis himself with a match set to 1-1.
There was a doubt if the game would go forward, with the slope after heavy rain in Perth, but Judge Calum Scott felt that the game was possible after the inspection.
Saints chief Simo Valakari made two changes in a team that lost 3-1 in Kilmarnock, while Sidibeh and Graham Carey were replaced by Makezie Kirk and Victor Griffith, while head Hearts Neil Critchley started with the same side that lost to the Rangers.
The awful conditions and the Stodar terrain caused problems for both teams in the early stages before Edinburgh – after the shooting of Jorge Grant and Blair Spittal – they gradually began to go to the top.
The first shot on the target came to visitors in half an hour when James Wilson broke into the right and reduced the ball back to Grant, whose 10 -meter storage was gorgeous from the goalkeeper Andy Fisher. The Kabbaga then shot a low -angle shot only wide.
Belgian, however, was not to be denied, and the breakthrough made in the 36th minute when he entered the ball home from close range after Lawrence Shankland received the James Penrica estate, turned to the box and drilled the ball with a low angle over the face . He was checked in an offside -in the way he looked extremely tight, but he was allowed to stop.
The saints offered a little offensive force in the first half, but they parted in the 53rd minute when Carey crossed from the left, and Sidibeh pushed Jamie McCart to dive and head home on the far post.
The hosts were almost three minutes later, when Stephen Duke -Mkenna – on replacement for Elliot Watt – crossed the left side for Curtis, who was greatly instinctively saved from Gordon.
The central moment was proven because the hearts renewed the lead within one minute when the passage from Shankland sent a Cabbage of Purity, and the 27-year-old drove from 12 meters low beyond the exposed Fisher.
The side of Tynecastle had to dig deep in the final stages, with Saints Wing-Back Drey Wright had a header for offset before Carey spread a shot from close range, but they held up firmly to climb from 10th to seventh.
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