At last, Hibs have done it. A side without a win in six and one who sit bottom of the Scottish top-flight.<\/p>\n
Today, all that will be forgotten. Finally, a Hampden derby does not end their cup run. This win was one to savour.<\/p>\n
Reedijk urged patience. In Paisley on Wednesday, his first victory looked close only for a late leveller to punish a lack of potency. The same shortcomings were on show in Glasgow, but finding the net twice was enough on this occasion.<\/p>\n
More than anywhere else, it was Hibs’ midfield who won them this derby. Newell commanded and controlled from the centre.<\/p>\n
For long enough, Hibs have been described as feeble and frail but, here, they were strong, sturdy and gritty. They gave it their all in the second half when they were against the ropes.<\/p>\n
For all Hearts’ dominance, goalkeeper Raphael Sallinger had little to do, such was the heroic defending in front of him.<\/p>\n
When the whistle finall went and the Hearts supporters streamed away, Hibs’ fans were left to savour something they have not here against their city rivals. Sheer relief and glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At last, Hibs have done it. A side without a win in six and one who sit bottom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-948999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}