Hearts boss Wouter Vrancken is asked about the tension in the air as Derek McInnes' Rangers visit Tynecastle.

"I'm not busy with those things," he tells BBC Scotland. "I'm just focusing on the game and trying to guide the players. It's more a fans thing I think.

"For us we have to focus on what's happening on the pitch. We want to make a result and work for it and want [the fans] to back us up."

The Belgian is also asked if he is prioritising tonight's fixture over Sunday's Edinburgh derby semi-final, to which he responds: "I don't see it like this. You can't pick games, that would be too easy if you could. I'm always focusing on the next one."

St Mirren manager Craig McLeish tells BBC Scotland: "Ismeal Kabia has picked something up with his calf.

"We got it scanned and it showed up something a little bit worse than we all thought. We need a bit of time to assess that as we only found out about it today.

"You can stand here and moan about it [injuries] or make excuses but we've got a squad, Chris Mochrie has been great all season and has an opportunity to come in tonight.

"Our football has always been there, we're a really good team when we fight and run and outwork the opposition, really stick together and show that side of our game. We're trying to be resilient and tough to play against and we've not shown that in some games this season. That's the message tonight, how we play on the ball but it's our off the ball stuff that's also so important."

Heart of Midlothian: Reus, Altena, Fagan-Walcott, McCart, Mato, Mendy, Magnusson, Miller, Kerjota, McPake, Braga.

Substitutes: Fulton, Kingsley, Williams, Kabore, Guendouz, Wilson, Dhanda, Pollock, Ba-Sy.

Rangers: Pandur, Sterling, Fernandez, Makhanya, Penrice, Raskin, Neil, Min-su, Gassama, Kelsy, Naderi.

Substitutes: Kelly, Nedeljkovic, Godfrey, Rommens, Dragojevic, Chukwuani, Curtis, Bouanani, Miovski.