Stephen Kingsley has urged Hearts to look at the positives after their draw at Livingston, and focus on the challenges ahead as they look to land the Premiership title.
The team travelled to Almondvale on Sunday in the hopes of another vital three points but were held to a 2-2 draw by the Premiership's bottom side.
The disappointing result left the team just one point ahead of Rangers and three ahead of Celtic, with a home match against Motherwell next weekend, their last before the split.
Kingsley acknowledged that the result was a setback but urged everyone to look at the team's position and how they now had six games to make history.
"We are top of the league, we are still there and we know that if we win on Saturday, we will go into the split top of the league," he said.
"Sometimes you just need to think if someone had told you that seven or eight months ago… It's an incredible place to be.
"We have now got to react to a few disappointing moments and make sure we're bang at it for Saturday.
"You can't say anything other than the next six games are massive for us.
"It's up to us to go and get a result against Motherwell and go into the split hopefully [at least] a point ahead.
"What an opportunity it is. We just want to be there and take this opportunity. We have to make the most of it. That's our mentality."
Kingsley insists there's no concern over all the team's remaining fixtures being against top six sides, saying their form has been strong in those games, and dismissed any talk of pressure starting to affect the team.
"I feel like people will put it down to nerves and tension, but it's not realistic thinking us, Rangers and Celtic will go the rest of the season and not drop points," he said.
"The full season has shown that teams will drop points. It's how you react – and we've done that very well this season. Whenever we've dropped points, we have always bounced back.
"Saturday is another chance to do that and, if we do that, we'll put ourselves in a great position going into the split."
