Devlin urging Hearts to respond like winners after first league defeat

Hearts midfielder Cammy Devlin has urged the side to turn the feeling of pain in defeat into a positive one at the first opportunity.

Derek McInnes' side suffered their first Scottish Premiership loss of the season when they were beaten 1-0 by Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday.

Despite the defeat, the Tynecastle club remain four points clear of Celtic at the top of the table having played an extra game.

"It wasn't a performance where you are going home thinking 'we were rubbish' but at the end of the day we lost a game of football," Devlin said.

"That's a feeling we haven't had for a while so let it hurt for the next day or two but we are just about bouncing back.

'Those [unbeaten runs] are going to come to an end at some stage. The best teams in the world, Celtic over the years that I have been here, that have won the league when they have had a bad result they have then turned that next week in to a positive result.

"There are going to be bumps, that is about us just getting back to training, working as hard as we can and just turning the bad feeling in to a positive feeling next week.

"The best thing is we only have to wait six days for our next game. It is just about not feeling sorry for ourselves because we were going to lose a game of football, it was going to happen.

Just get back to training, work as hard as we can and get that winning feeling back again."