{"id":73689,"date":"2025-08-17T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:06:08","slug":"livingston-vs-hibernian-premier-sports-cup-radio-commentary-updates-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73689\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston vs Hibernian: Premier Sports Cup radio commentary, updates &#038; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Record signing Thibault Klidje marked his first start with a crucial goal as Hibernian defeated Livingston to secure a Premier Sports Cup quarter-final against Rangers at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Togo striker glanced in a header from Martin Boyle&#8217;s corner just before half-time and substitute Josh Mulligan&#8217;s stunning 25-yard strike made sure of victory late on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors, showing six changes from the energy-sapping extra-time Conference League qualifying win over Partizan Belgrade, started in the ascendancy with Klidje stinging the palms of Livingston goalkeeper Jerome Prior in the opening minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pace of Klidje and Boyle was causing problems and the pair combined for the opener moments break the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Livingston created their first real opportunity within minutes of the restart, but Robbie Muirhead delayed his effort, allowing the Hibs defence to recover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grant Hanley had to be at full stretch to clear a volley from Sammy Lawal that was heading towards the bottom corner and Zak Rudden was next to try his luck amid increasing pressure for the home side, but his header drifted over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the tie was sealed three minutes from time as a screamer from Mulligan ensured Hibs&#8217; place in the last eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record signing Thibault Klidje marked his first start with a crucial goal as Hibernian defeated Livingston to secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-73689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689","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=73689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}