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Hearts fight back twice to take a point from Celtic in top of table clash

The result means the current league leaders stay six points ahead the champions.

Hearts fight back twice to take a point from Celtic in top of table clash at TynecastleSNS Group

Hearts fought back twice to secure a draw with Celtic in Sunday’s top of the table Premiership clash at Tynecastle.

The result means the current league leaders stay six points ahead the champions, who drop into third place.

A victory for Rangers over Dundee at Ibrox means they move into second place and cut the gap at the top to four points.

Celtic manager Martin O’Neill had earlier described the game as a “must not lose”, but they might have felt the three points were there for the taking after taking an early lead.

Benjamin Nygren put the visitors in front when he curled a superb free-kick past Craig Gordon in the opening stages.

Hearts fought back and dominated large parts of the first half before grabbing an equaliser through Stuart Findlay early in the second.

Tomas Cvancara then had first major input in a Celtic shirt when he raced through the Hearts defence to set up Yang to make it 2-1.

The Hoops were then reduced to ten men when the referee upgraded an initial Auston Trusty yellow card to a red after a VAR review.

Claudio Braga struck another equaliser with just five minutes left on the clock to make it 2-2 going into the final stages.

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