Hearts head coach Derek McInnes has no complaints about the red card but is critical of his players’ approach before Craig Halkett’s dismissal.
"To lose a goal from a set-play with two minutes to go is pretty galling," he told BBC Scotland. "We should deal with that, we can't have a free header in the middle of our goal. And it's harsh on us because we put so much into it.
"We came here to win and we gave up that opportunity by not playing forward. We got to the top of the league by being that team, but tonight we were guilty of not playing forward in that early part of the game.
"We needed more forward runs and passes into space."
McInnes shrugs off the notion that the absence of Lawrence Shankland and Cammy Devlin was a factor, saying: "It's got nothing to do with that.
"We've got players who needed to play the game a bit differently today, that's all. I thought we were OK, but any problems we had were caused by ourselves.
"It's the third time in five games we're down to 10 men which gives us a mountain to climb. We were guilty of putting ourselves in a fankle, to cause the red card.
"We had two opportunities to play forward, refused to do it, and got caught on the ball unnecessarily.
"You've got to work that bit harder to try and give the lads a chance to stay in the game. We almost did it. The fact that we've been down to 10 and got winning performances previously meant they knew what needed to be done.
"No one could have denied, because of the effort we put in, that we could have earned a point tonight. But we came here to win and we gave up that opportunity to win on the back of not playing forward.
"We got to the top of the league of being that team [that played forward] and tonight, we were guilty of not doing that in the early part of the game. We needed more runs from the forward line and more passes into space, to make them think twice."
