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Craig Levein admits home form is "weighing heavily" on Hearts

Hearts have not won a league match at Tynecastle since March.

Hearts manager Craig Levein admits their failure to win at home in the league is "weighing heavily" on the whole club.

Levein's men have gone seven Ladbrokes Premiership games without victory at Tynecastle, a run stretching back to March.

Hearts have also drawn at home with Dundee United and Aberdeen in the Betfred Cup, winning penalty shoot-outs on both occasions, and needed two late goals to come from behind to beat Stenhousemuir in the same competition.

Their Gorgie struggles have put Levein under pressure and they face a tough challenge to prevent their unwanted run being extended when league leaders Rangers visit on Sunday looking for an eighth consecutive win over Hearts.

When asked about the effect of their long wait for a home win, Levein said: "It's weighing heavily on everybody. But we have got the capabilities. If I didn't think we had the capabilities of winning these matches, then there is no point me doing the job and being here.

"I have seen on numerous occasions – recently against Aberdeen in the cup, where our performance was really good, we competed against one of the top teams. And I feel going into every match, we should be winning matches at home."

Levein admits he feels the frustration of the crowd when they are under-performing, but also the support when they do things right.

And he knows there is only one way to turn the atmosphere into a positive.

"That's the responsibility of myself and the players to carry that," he said. "If you want to call it a burden then you can but for me it's just another opportunity to play in front of a full house at home, which should be the thing you become a football player for."

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