At that point, Newell – who proceeded to pull the strings – was full of fear.<\/p>\n
“Oh no, here we go,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
A simple but strong header from Claudio Braga, before many supporters had even taken to their seats, brought concern. <\/p>\n
Could a repeat of that unforgettable afternoon – Hibs supporters aren’t allowed to forget it – 14 years ago, when Hearts fired five past them in the Scottish Cup final, be on the cards?<\/p>\n
“The game plan was out the window,” midfielder Newell said. “It’s not ideal, is it?<\/p>\n
“You go to bed [on Saturday night] thinking of all the scenarios and the way you dream and imagine the game is going to go and then, after two minutes, they score.<\/p>\n
“But I think, if anything, it shows how good the character is and kind of emphasises it was even more of a special performance, not just the win.”<\/p>\n
Which is, surely, what Reedijk and his team will take out of this the most. Any team can win a cup game, but not any team can show the grit, determination and depth Hibs did in setting up a final against Rangers next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At that point, Newell – who proceeded to pull the strings – was full of fear. “Oh no,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-821764","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\/821764","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=821764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}