{"id":210292,"date":"2025-10-19T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:52:08","slug":"hibernian-can-thibault-klidje-kick-on-after-livingston-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210292\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernian: Can Thibault Klidje kick on after Livingston display?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also played a clever pass to lay on a good chance for Nicky Cadden after another one of his profitable runs forward, showing a different side to the<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a performance which offered a glimpse of why Hibs invested significanct money in him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Martin Boyle and Kieron Bowie strong first-choice options for Gray, it remains to be seen whether he will now get a run in the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s had to be patient, but we&#8217;ve been patient with him,&#8221; the Hibs head coach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s come over to a new culture and new way of working and coming into a team that is very competitive as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted with his performance and he should be delighted with his performance, but to single anyone out today would be wrong because to a man they were fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The caveat is Livington, by their manager David Martindale&#8217;s own admission, were all over the place defensively which made Klidje&#8217;s life easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also looked raw in front of goal. Despite his magnificent finish, he had two other clear chances which were rushed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But all the ingredients appear there for the Togo international to have a big influence at Hibs, and start to repay the club&#8217;s outlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also played a clever pass to lay on a good chance for Nicky Cadden after another one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-210292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}