Hearts are reported to have made a late switch to their squad for the UEFA Champions League qualifier, first-leg, in Austria against Sturm Graz.
French forward Amadou Ba-Sy has been added according to the Edinburgh Evening News after netting a glory double in Friday’s 2-1 win over Spanish side, Rayo Vallecano, in a pre-season challenge.
Ugandan winger, Rogers Mato, will not travel to Austria.
Sturm Graz go into Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League, second qualifying round, home clash with Hearts on the back of s series of friendlies and have recently recorded back-to-back wins.
They beat Austrian side Kalsdoft 4-1 on July 8 and edged Polish Ekstraklasa outfit, Pogan Szczecin, who finished ninth in their table last season, 1-0 on July 15.
Sturm Graz go into Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League, second qualifying round, home clash with Hearts on the back of s series of friendlies and have recently recorded back-to-back wins.
Details are scant and, for what are described as “strategic reasons”, media coverage of the Pogan game was kept to a minimum. The match was not broadcast.
However, it was French-born, Axel Kayombo who made the difference. He is a youth international for the DR Congo and plays as a winger.
Hearts could face the winner of the tie involving Fenerbahce and Gornik Zabrze, one of the most successful club in Polish football history, in the next round and the first leg of that is in Istanbul on Tuesday night (19.00).
Jambos’ manager, Wouter Vrancken (pictured), said Friday’s friendly against Spanish side, Rayo Vallecano, which ended in a 2-1 win, ticked a lot of boxes.
The Belgian boss stressed that his men are “not there yet” but they are progressing and he added: “Now it starts for real.”
