Aberdeen will be fully focused and avoid any complacency when they face a Hearts side struggling for points on Sunday, Tony Docherty has said.

The Dons defeated Livingston 2-1 on Boxing Day and are looking to sign off for the winter break with another three points when they travel to the capital.

New Hearts boss Daniel Stendel has so far been unable to reverse his side's form and is without a win in his four games in charge but Docherty insists there is no chance his side will think they just have to turn up to get the win they want.

"There will be absolutely no complacency from us against Hearts," he told the club's official website.

"You take every game on its merits.

"We will look at all of the Hearts games under their new manager and prepare our team.

"We will analyse the opponent, we will have a look at our game against Livingston, what we did and what we could do better.

"We will go down there with a game plan with a view to win all three points."

The coach believes his side will travel with momentum behind them after they bounced back fro a loss to Celtic with a win over a difficult Livingston team.

He said: "We said to the players after the Celtic game, that after the manner of the defeat,  we take the positives from it and we go and try and finish off the year with six points from six.

"We have managed the first part of that.

"That was the objective. At times it wasn't pretty, but I need to give credit to our opponents, no game is easy against Livingston.

"They have got a way of playing, they put things into your box from their goal kicks, they throw it into the box from long throw-ins and you have to defend that.

"We come out of it with a lot of credit having managed to get the three points against a team that have been on a very good run and that gives us a bit of  momentum going down to Tynecastle."