CRAIG LEVEIN was less than impressed with the way Hearts approached their tie with Fiorentina last night.
The Serie A giants rolled over Levein's former side at Tynecastle 3-0 in the Europa Conference League.
Rolando Mandragora scored early for the visitors, before Christian Kouame made it two before half-time.
Ex-Real Madrid ace Luka Jovic added some gloss to the scoreline in the final moments of the match.
And Levein was bitterly disappointed to watch on as he claimed Robbie Neilson's men let them "take what they want".
He told BBC Sportsound: "Any team can beat any other team on any given evening. The thing that's annoyed me tonight about Hearts is they didn't give themselves a chance of winning. They never laid a glove.
"You have also got to look at the back line and the players that they have gone missing defensively.
"Okay they've got arguably the best goalkeeper in the league still but I mean in front of them they have got a group of players in front of them what are cobbled together in all honesty.
"That's why I didn't fancy Hearts tonight because I thought defensively they wouldn't be good enough. The biggest disappointment for me was there wasn't a finger laid on Fiorentina.
"Before the game I said they needed to make it as uncomfortable evening as possible for Fiorentina hey made it the best evening possible for Fiorentina.
"This was almost like 'welcome into my house take anything you want'.
"The only way they would have been able to run the two races at the same time was to keep everyone fit and they've got injuries and the squad in it's entirety wasn't big enough.
"Also I don't think they've got enough; there isn't a small enough drop off between their best players and the ones who come in to replace them. For me that's quite critical as well."
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