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STUDIO: Rarely have two teams gone into the Scottish Cup semifinal in | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
poorer form, today both Hibernian and Dundee United have the chance to | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
take a step closer to this piece of silverware, the action is live on | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
the BBC, with me in the studio, Marc Wilson and Pat Nevin. The question | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
of who is in goal for Hibernian, it is Conrad Logan, the Irishman, who | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
last played a senior football mad for December Battenberg Rochdale in | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
December, 2015. -- last played a senior football match for Rochdale | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
in December, 2015. They hope to cause problems at the other end, | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
they are an attack minded signed, but surely, Dundee United will look | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
at that and think they can get them under pressure. We were watching a | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Dundee United that looked like they were resigned to relegation last | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
week at Tannadice. They played like a championship team. That is a big | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
worry, for Mixu Paatelainen, can they bounced back from that | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
performance, it was so bad, I bedded them to have a bitter fight about | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
them. Coming into a semifinal, you never know, that may be a welcome | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
distraction for them today. Could still be a glorious season for | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
Hibernian, they are still be a glorious season for | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
potentially to a second national cup final, and they could still be | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
promoted. Could be stored ordinary, that is why this sport is absolutely | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
fantastic. We all expect the negatives of this, Dundee United and | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Hibernian both having a bad time but both teams are capable of playing | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
well, it is unlikely but it could be a classic. The motion chasing | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Hibernian against relegation haunted Dundee United, the first of the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
William Hill Scottish Cup semifinals, let's get to the action, | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the team is in the tunnel, commentary comes from Craig Paterson | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
and Liam McLeod. COMMENTATOR: Hello, everyone, promotion chasers against | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
the relegation candidates, 200 meeting of Hibernian and Dundee | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
United. Two clubs whose respectively campaigns are in serious danger of | :02:47. | :02:47. | |
imploding. . His cup semifinal for Hibernian, | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
in five years, having won only one of their last seven championship | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
matches, having been a serious of their last seven championship | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
threat to Rangers at the top for the start of the campaign, there are | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
roads to promotion looks like it could be a long one. -- fifth. Only | :03:06. | :03:19. | |
five games left to pull off a relegation survival miracle. | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
There is a debut, those that we were discussing, 29-year-old Irishman | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Conrad Logan is in goal for Hibernian, also banned James Keating | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
's, and a couple of injuries, Hibernian have not won this for a | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
while, Anthony Stokes has, twice, he, McGregor and Gray walking a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
suspension tightrope, if booked today, they will miss the final is | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Hibernian get there. -- James Keatings. Mixu Paatelainen has been | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
putting fires out this week, mysterious departure from the club | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
by Gunning them at a time when they could do without any extra hassles. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
On loan at Hibernian earlier this season, Henri Anier, he is on the | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
bench. A couple are a yellow card away from missing a potential final | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
and Blair Spittal comes into the team. Martin Boyle's recent win over | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Livingston is a goal of the season candidate, Kevin Thomson won this | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
competition with Rangers, Edward Ofere needed it to, with Inverness, | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
just last year. -- Edward Ofere did it, too. Big afternoon for Conrad | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
Logan, that is for sure, since a 2-2 draw with Notts County for Rochdale, | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
14 months ago, the young man has not played. He is the preferred option | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
today. -- the 29-year-old. Hope of survival for Dundee United, they are | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
eight points adrift, he had been out injured for so long, the early part | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
of the season was not helpful. The referee there, highly rated | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
34-year-old, the Fifa official, he was the man in the middle when | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Hibernian beat Heart of Midlothian in the Easter Road replay in round | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
five. Mixu Paatelainen lost a couple of finals while a Dundee United | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
player and a Hibernian player. He is desperate to try to turn things | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
around. League of looking club. This competition may not provide solace, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
but it can certainly provide a little sanctuary for teams with | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
bigger fish to fry. Despite a slot in the 131st Scottish Cup final the | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
price today. -- beleaguered. 114 years of misery for Hibernian in | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
this competition, playing at Hampden Park for the seventh time in the | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
last five seasons, second this season, coming after the League Cup | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
heartache against Ross County one month ago. How do you see this one? | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Former Hibernian player, Liam McLeod. CO-COMMENTATOR: Both teams | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
in poor form, if you go out there and start quick and well it is | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
amazing the difference that can make to your confidence. Chance to put | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
the ball in, but it is away by Hanlon, important figurehead in the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Hibernian defence, still without Liam Fontaine. United have begun the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
semifinal on the front foot. Horrible campaign for them. They | :06:35. | :06:47. | |
have not played badly in every match, it has been goals going in | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
against them. They have seen their headstrong and their confidence | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
drained -- heads drop. Fine season for some of these players, John | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
McGinn is one of them. One month after making his Scotland debut | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
against Denmark, in a recent friendly, he makes his first | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
appearance at Hampden Park. Liam Henderson, on loan from Celtic. Back | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
to Hanlon. First touch of the ball for Logan, | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
just signed last month, until the end of the season. First chance for | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Lewis Stevenson. Perhaps. Going for the spectacular. Provided | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
so often this season, he has scored 23 times. Certainly capable, the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
ball comes in, he sees it early, cannot get over it. The last | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
ball comes in, he sees it early, appearance here for Hibernian was a | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
defeat, United's last appearance here was also a League Cup final | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
defeat, when they lost to Celtic, last year. You could argue that it | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
was at that point that things began to unravel for the Terriers, a | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
relegation which many believe they will take some time to recover from, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Alan Stubbs looking to guide his team in the other direction, still | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
time to do that, even if the championship title is gone. | :08:21. | :08:33. | |
Interesting to see Maurice starting out at left-back, Sean Dillon pushed | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
into centre-back. -- Morris. They have lost a couple of goals in the | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
last couple of weeks. One of the survivors of the 2010 Scottish Cup | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
final, under Peter Houston. One of only two Scottish Cup victories in | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
Scottish Cup history. The man on the bench missed that one through | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
injury. It has been some few months for | :09:07. | :09:33. | |
Paatelainen, since he replaced Jackie McNamara, taking over the | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
club, just a point adrift at the bottom. Good, last weekend, if | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
results had gone the other way, have beaten Inverness, Kilmarnock last, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
results had gone the other way, have dropped to within two. You play | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
badly, you lose, you find the teams above you have all picked up three | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
points, eight adrift, they have an absolute mountain to climb. Huge | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
game for him next week against Hamilton, first post-split when you | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
ship extra. Hibernian face Rangers in the midweek. | :10:10. | :10:22. | |
Another poor result for Hibernian midweek, against Fulco, 2-0 up, four | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
minutes to play, finishing 2-2. -- 2-1 up, four minutes to play. -- | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
full Kirk. Did nothing to hurt the aspirations of finishing second, but | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
plenty for Falkirk. This is promising for Hibernian. Finding | :10:46. | :10:46. | |
space. -- Falkirk. Running into Marvin Bartley. He is | :10:47. | :11:09. | |
not an easy man to get past, he really mobile. Strong challenge and | :11:10. | :11:22. | |
that has gone the way of Hibernian, strong challenge by David Gray. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
David Gray does like a tackle. Good news for Hibernian that he is back | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
in the team, with Fraser Fyvie weighing slightly to the right-hand | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
side of midfield, he to come in centre, that will leave David Gray a | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
lot of room to charge up and down the right-hand side. -- with Fraser | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Fyvie playing slightly to the right-hand side of midfield. Missed | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
the game against Falkirk, through injury, the defeat, unable to help | :11:53. | :11:53. | |
his team. Losing to a single goal. These two have already met in cup | :11:54. | :12:21. | |
competition this season, Hibernian handing United a 3-1 towelling in | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
the League Cup in November, it was revenge, given that the Tangerines | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
did it to Hibernian year before, on penalties. Big shout for obstruction | :12:30. | :12:43. | |
by Hanlon, an Erskine. -- on Erskine. Strong defending, as soon | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
as you realise the goalkeeper may be under pressure, you are quite | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
entitled to get involved, trying to go around... Marvin Bartley was not | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
the man. New contract returning to Partick | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Thistle. Here we go. Moving across. Keeping | :13:03. | :13:16. | |
your head down, don't attract attention of the referee. You have a | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
new goalkeeper income you want him to get a touch early but you do not | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
want it done under pressure. And again. Good work by Blair | :13:27. | :14:01. | |
Spittal, Hibernian failing to take advantage of a good situation there, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Lewis Stevenson not renowned for his goal-scoring. The two occasions that | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
they have been able to get in on the right-hand side, they have not been | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
able to produce on the final ball to cause real problems. Stokes, for | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
David Gray, he does win it, and that cause real problems. Stokes, for | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
is an easy hold for the goalkeeper, aged cover Shima. Good spot, sees | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
David Gray against John Rankin, almost able to win that, and yet | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
again, Jason Cummings on the turn cannot quite get enough of it. -- | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Eiji Kawashima. You do not want to be giving him chances in that kind | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
of area, Stevenson looking to turn it back for David Gray. | :14:49. | :15:09. | |
Lost to get forward as much as he loves a tackle. Fraser Fyvie! Has | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
not scored this season. Terrific effort. This comes back to him, he | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
decides to take it on. Does not come down quick enough. Wonderful strike, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
look at that, actually, hits the top of the net. Lewis Stevenson, I | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
mentioned he does not scored to many, he has won more than Fraser | :15:40. | :15:40. | |
Fyvie this season, coming against many, he has won more than Fraser | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Dundee United, it was the third in the 3-0 win in the Scottish Cup. | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
That Lewis Stevenson goal was his fifth for the club, three came last | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
Not prolific, you would have to say. Not prolific, you would have to say. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
-- in the cup. You know what you will get from Stevenson, week in, | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
week out. In the 2007 League Cup final win over Kilmarnock, he was | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Man of the Match. He has only missed one game this season, Lewis | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Stevenson, this is his 44th appearance of the campaign. | :16:22. | :16:38. | |
There had been cynics with regards to the partnership between comings | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
and Stokes. Returning on loan from Celtic, the two have not quite | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
gelled as yet. As we watch Lewis Stevenson. It does take time, going | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
through a bad patch, that does not help, but they are both genuine goal | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
threats. -- Cummings. Wondered for a moment if David Gray | :16:59. | :17:19. | |
knew that Fraser Fyvie was behind him. | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
A little edginess in the Dundee United performance. 12 minutes in, | :17:28. | :17:45. | |
beginning relatively well, but Hibernian have been behind a couple | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
of times. Starting to close their passing game on, not just kicking | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
the ball away, they have got to get the midfield players and front | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
players involved. The ball has bubbled away. This was Erskine. | :18:03. | :18:17. | |
Good defending by Berkeley. -- Bartley. Calvin Morris gets it all | :18:18. | :18:35. | |
wrong, good performance in the semifinal of the League Cup last | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
season against Aberdeen, Callum Morris, indeed, he scored in that | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
game. -- Callum Morris. It is a key ball by Stokes. Here is grey. -- | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
David Gray. Three in the middle, could not find one of them, all | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
moving towards the near post. Hibernian beginning to dominate. | :18:57. | :19:11. | |
Jason Cummings. First corner of the match goes to | :19:12. | :19:49. | |
the. They are getting the ball into feet, decent ball in, deflected the | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
corner, but certainly Hibernian on top in terms of the passing. | :19:55. | :20:06. | |
Not the worst ball. It is back in Bygrave. -- back in by Gray, an | :20:07. | :20:29. | |
Orthodox from Sean Dillon but it was enough. Really good defending, head | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
in from David Gray, has two deal with it, that is a really clever | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
flick. -- has two deal with it. Keeping the Hibs defence | :20:44. | :20:44. | |
comfortable. I mentioned Anthony Stokes is one of | :20:45. | :21:23. | |
those players on a yellow card, two yellow cards, if you come in at the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
fourth round, you miss the next round, if Hibernian get through... | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
That is an side... If Hibs get through today and Celtic get through | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
tomorrow, Stokes and Neil Henderson through today and Celtic get through | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
will be unable to play in the final against their parent clubs, lots of | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
ifs and buts at the moment, though. On loan from West Ham United, played | :21:41. | :22:02. | |
a Europa League game way back in the summer for West Ham United, when | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
West Ham United played the remaining inside Astra Giurgiu. Onto the | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
former Dunfermline player. Nigel he has been called into minds, he | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
has given Hibernian the chance to he has been called into minds, he | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
break. -- Kyle Knoyle. Stays on his feet. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
A lot of joy down the right-hand side. David Gray getting up and down | :22:37. | :22:59. | |
there all day long. Dundee United must start to think about sending an | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
extra player across. So often David Gray is on the run, John Rankin | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
tucks in, allowing him into space, the final ball is not good enough, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
as you get there often enough, eventually one will hit a striker. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Hibs don't play with wingers, they do not play that kind of game, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
adding David Gray and Lewis Stevenson, particularly David Gray | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
in particular, they have the ability, these full-backs, for most | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
of the season, have been able to get into those areas. That is Alan | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Stubbs's formation, midfield diamond, no white players, staying | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
in the middle, getting on the ball, leaving room for the two full-backs. | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
Conrad Logan, the Hibernian debiting, yet to be tested by Dundee | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
United. This game is flowing to our left, most of the time, Jason | :23:56. | :23:56. | |
Cummings bursting into the box. Fraser Fyvie goes down, the referee | :23:57. | :24:13. | |
does not want to know. The ball comes back does not see a great deal | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
in that, big shout from the Hibs fans. The referee had a good view. | :24:17. | :24:47. | |
It was a good idea, saw him on the run. Just had to check that ball | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
with a bit of check, too much on it. Alan Stubbs, unused substitute when | :24:52. | :25:05. | |
Celtic beat Hibernian in the final in 2001, to complete a treble. | :25:06. | :25:17. | |
Lovely play by Chris Erskine. Felt Rankin was the better option, rather | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
than the well marshalled Mackay full is. -- Mackay. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
David Gray again... How did he find him? Can he find him, not 1 million | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
miles away from doing so. Decent idea, Dundee United had dropped | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
back, they were deep enough, it made it difficult to get the ball in | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
behind him and the goalkeeper always looked favourite. | :25:50. | :26:05. | |
The last meeting between these two in this competition was also at the | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
final stage, 2005. -- semifinal stage. Gold from Jim McIntyre and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Jason Scotland overturned a 1-0 deficit and sent Dundee United | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
through. -- goals. After a penalty had been converted by Derek Riordan. | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
First big decision of the game so far forward referee John Beaton, the | :26:33. | :26:44. | |
penalty shout. -- so far for referee John Beaton. | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
You could produce a good case for Hibernian's dominance on the ball, | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
looking at possession statistics. Neat and tidy, Hibernian, when they | :26:59. | :27:16. | |
want to be. Neat and tidy by Paul Paton. Not enough work for the | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
goalkeeper, very little to do. Statistics will tell you so much, | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
but Hibernian have their positions, they just need that bit of spark, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
that little bit of magic, in the final third. | :27:32. | :27:44. | |
Mackay, offside. The last time that Dundee United were in such peril in | :27:45. | :27:57. | |
the league, at the bottom of the table, back in 2000/1, they won | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
their last four matches. That campaign, they stayed up. At St. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Mirren's expense. They will need something similar. Even then, they | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
will be needing snookers. Eiji Kawashima gets there, well read | :28:13. | :28:51. | |
by the Japanese. Gets him at the second attempt. | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
You have got to be sharp to outrun Darren McGregor, once he gets up a | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
head of steam, he can cover the ground. Sticks a leg in there, takes | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
Marvin Bartley, it is going to be a warning, a word of warning. | :29:08. | :29:31. | |
Big chance, they have asked a question of Conrad Logan. The | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
Hibernian debited and comes up with an answer. There is confidence, big | :29:38. | :29:51. | |
save. Normally does. Again, John Beaton had a right good luck at | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
that, as Marvin Bartley tumbled in the Dundee United penalty area. | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
Twice, he has said no. This game has opened right up in the last minute | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
or so, this is Mackay. 13 goals this season. You would put a lot of | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
money, Billy Mackay, one-on-one, to make it 14, he failed to do so, and | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
he has given away the ball. -- Billy Mckay. Stevenson, two strokes. And | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
again. Suddenly it is going from one end to | :30:28. | :30:38. | |
the other. Fine day for it, on the new service. | :30:39. | :30:52. | |
-- surface. It was a shout for a penalty, Batley | :30:53. | :31:16. | |
on the run. Very difficult to see if there was any contact but here is a | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
chance for United. Mackay is one on one. That is a really good save from | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
Conrad Logan. Spreads himself, doesn't give him much to aim for. A | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
really good block. Billy Mackay almost had a one goal every two | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
games ratio. He missed out on a Scottish Cup medal. After make his | :31:43. | :31:53. | |
move to Wigan. -- after making his move to Wigan. | :31:54. | :32:05. | |
United's Tok top scorer. He will keep looking for chances. Helped | :32:06. | :32:20. | |
United to this semi-final with a late winner against Ross County. | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
They really had to overcome a series of adversities that day. Lost Mark | :32:26. | :32:36. | |
Dunn to a red card. Behind at the time, as well, came | :32:37. | :32:56. | |
certainly looked the more likely, in the blink of an eye, Billy Mackay | :32:57. | :33:04. | |
could have been out in front. Could have had two free kicks out there. | :33:05. | :33:14. | |
Mackay let that go out thinking it was a goal kick. He could be made to | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
suffer here. The linesman is so close that, in its going to get that | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
right. They don't have a lot of height, Hibs. You need those two | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
centre-backs in better at that Biddle bit extra. -- to add that | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
little bit extra. Oh, he's given a penalty for a | :33:37. | :33:52. | |
handball. It is a third penalty shout for the afternoon and John | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
Beaton has pointed to the spot. Donaldson gets the head down and the | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
arm up here. Unusual position, it is difficult to tell exactly where it | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
hit from that angle. He is coming out to block and, you know | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
something, that is a tough one. Jason Cummings is going to have the | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
chance to put Hibs in front in the semifinal. Against the Japanese 80 | :34:17. | :34:28. | |
Kawashima, Hibernian's top scorer this season. Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
dear. What on earth was that? That is the one, you are either a hero or | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
you are the opposite. At this stage in the competition, they don't need | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
that. They need the ball to fire into the back of the net. He has | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
gone for a clever chance, and he has missed the best chance of the game. | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
Red faces all round. In particular for Jason Cummings. There are times | :35:01. | :35:11. | |
to the gallant, semifinal 29 minutes in, is not one of them. I would love | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
to see the face of Alan Stubbs is that ball went behind the goal. A | :35:17. | :35:25. | |
yellow card here. Paul Donaldson will be breathing a big sigh of | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
relief. It was a debatable penalty. He came charging in. It is a tough | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
decision, again. I think it is a genuine challenge for the ball. How | :35:36. | :35:43. | |
decision, again. I think it is a important will that proves to be? | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
Mixu Paatelainen, you can see what he makes over debugging. -- over the | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
booking. It is Liam Henderson's free kick. | :35:56. | :36:08. | |
You just wonder where Jason Cummings's head is right now. | :36:09. | :36:17. | |
Ford lip readers out there, a apology in case you were offended by | :36:18. | :36:26. | |
Mixu Paatelainen. Although it may have been in finish. Just sneaks by, | :36:27. | :36:37. | |
John McGinn attacked it. Still have no answer, Gray down that right-hand | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
side. Beyond the front post, difficult to get it on target. | :36:47. | :36:50. | |
United are really struggling. Billy Mackay had the best chance for them, | :36:51. | :37:00. | |
United could so easily have been won nothing up. They have been up | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
against it in this first half. Hibs have passed the ball better, | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
dominated possession. You tend to tagging all the time, and that has | :37:14. | :37:14. | |
given David Gray absolute control. Here is Stevenson. Gets it in, at | :37:15. | :37:34. | |
the expense of a corner. Donaldson intervention. I think United are | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
thinking about a change. Callum Morris appears to be the man who | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
will be sacrificed with Paul Dixon coming on. A natural line back | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
will be sacrificed with Paul Dixon playing in that position. It hasn't | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
worked, Mixu has to change it. Fancies it. You don't want to give | :37:52. | :38:28. | |
him room. From 30 yards in, it just takes a step and I tell you what, | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
only hits than absolute beauty rising all the time, just too high. | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
But what a hit. Callum Morris is being withdrawn here. Paul Dixon, as | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
we were saying, is going to replace him. We can only imagine it is | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
because he is being torn apart by David Gray's running on the flank. | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
Callum Morris, he hasn't played badly but when you keep tucking in | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
and leaving room, they will eventually be picked. It is good | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
management. These decisions have to be made. Paul Dixon's von hasn't | :39:05. | :39:13. | |
been fantastic but if you have a natural left-back who is experienced | :39:14. | :39:20. | |
and played in games of this magnitude, do not start them ahead | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
of a centre-half in that position? Sometimes in an effort to get all | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
your best players in the team, you don't do the team any favours. But | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
Mixu has done the best thing and changed it. Certainly didn't look | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
like an injury to Callum Morris. He is smiling now, Donaldson. He | :39:43. | :39:59. | |
wasn't earlier on. John Beaton gave a penalty and Jason Cummings dipped | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
wasn't earlier on. John Beaton gave it over the crossbar. | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
Such a fine line when that happens, because if that goes in, he is a | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
genius. It makes headlines, but now depending on how this game goes, it | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
will make headlines for the wrong reasons. I think at that stage of | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
the game, if you are on a run like Hibs are, you don't try something | :40:28. | :40:36. | |
funny. He said after a win over Rangers last season, he had the | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
touch other names angel. -- the touch of an angel. He just has to | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
settle down now. You don't want to go trying every time you get the | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
ball to get it on your left foot and try and work the goalkeeper. He | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
needs to work his way back into the game. A chance will come for him. | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
Jason Cummings actually missed one of the penalties in the play-off | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
final against Hamilton that relegated Hibs a couple of seasons | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
ago. They have never been outside the top for more than a couple of | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
campaigns. They want to finish second because that means they won't | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
have to play Raith Rovers over two legs. If nothing else, third place, | :41:22. | :41:34. | |
fourth, the winner of that plays team 11 in the Premiership. If | :41:35. | :41:36. | |
either of these two are involved,, either of these two are involved,, | :41:37. | :41:55. | |
... A free kick. Might have been some sarcasm from the United | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
supporters there. First chance if United can see they can work | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
something out. Paul Donaldson getting himself up in that back post | :42:07. | :42:07. | |
area. Coll Donaldson, nearly gave away the | :42:08. | :42:26. | |
disputed penalty there. A hearts supporter, certainly was as a | :42:27. | :42:26. | |
youngster. Actually not a bad ball in there but | :42:27. | :42:46. | |
you have two credit the Hibs defenders, they got around, they got | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
next to players, made sure the United player wasn't getting his | :42:53. | :42:53. | |
head on that. outline how far Dundee United have | :42:54. | :43:06. | |
fallen in this campaign, it is the first time they've been outside the | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
top six since 2007. Finished fifth, fifth, third when they won the | :43:14. | :43:22. | |
Scottish Cup in 2010, fourth, sixth and fifth. They are marooned in 12 | :43:23. | :43:30. | |
this campaign. There is so long -- only so long a plaster will tend to | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
a deep wound because they have lost so many players over the last few | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
years. I think the family silver being flogged this season... | :43:40. | :43:49. | |
Donaldson giving it away. Good recovery initially. I thought just | :43:50. | :44:01. | |
made it onto your right foot, take on the goalkeeper, but the mistake | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
is made. I fancy Stokes to get a shot away. Defending. Eventually | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
Paul Donaldson -- Coll Donaldson completed. | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
They lost their areas players -- they lost various players in | :44:22. | :44:37. | |
previous seasons. John Rankin has been at Tannadice for a while. | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
Difficult to sustain a good position in the league and have good seasons | :44:42. | :44:43. | |
when you are losing your best in the league and have good seasons | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
players in such a regular basis and perhaps not replacing them with that | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
kind of quality. You tend to replace them with youngsters from the youth | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
system. You can't do that over a period of ten years. You have a lot | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
system. You can't do that over a of players coming through, when that | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
dries up, it you have to spend money and Dundee United didn't have the | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
money to spend. Is not going either way. A good run by Dixon. He has got | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
to get back to his post. Just over five minutes to half-time. | :45:21. | :45:30. | |
0-0 at the National Stadium. A wonderful chance for both teams in | :45:31. | :45:56. | |
this first task, if you are joining us, Mackay is in, penalty went over | :45:57. | :46:10. | |
the bar, that is why we are still at stalemate. | :46:11. | :46:28. | |
Mixu Paatelainen very much a hero at Hibs in his time. Really good team | :46:29. | :46:42. | |
Mixu Paatelainen very much a hero at in that campaign, or the way to the | :46:43. | :46:43. | |
Scottish Cup final. Noticed an article with John O'Neill | :46:44. | :46:59. | |
this morning where he was talking about winning the Scottish Cup, | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
would be preferential in the eyes of the Hibs supporters to promotion. | :47:05. | :47:15. | |
A chance for Spittal inside the box to create havoc. Another great save | :47:16. | :47:26. | |
by the goalkeeper. Guilty final ball doesn't get into the danger area | :47:27. | :47:27. | |
again. Options ahead of them. You have | :47:28. | :47:56. | |
to pick somebody out there, and I have to say, a lot of goalkeepers | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
don't go for that. Logan, was brave and got down and that was a good | :48:02. | :48:03. | |
stop. Knoyle looking for doubt. The winner of this, faces the winner | :48:04. | :48:29. | |
of tomorrow's semifinal between Rangers and Celtic. You may have | :48:30. | :48:31. | |
heard about that one. I'm not sure Kawashima is the best | :48:32. | :48:54. | |
at cross balls. He dealt with it and that is all that matters now. | :48:55. | :49:20. | |
Here is Spittal on familiar territory, former Queens Park man. | :49:21. | :49:28. | |
Mackay is in, Hibs just stopped and again he is denied by Conrad Logan. | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
The goalkeeper I'll has been worth his weight in this first half. | :49:34. | :49:41. | |
Another defensive lapse let Mackay in and the keeper makes a real good | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
stop. How many of them will Hibs be able to count and the keeper against | :49:48. | :49:48. | |
Mackay? It has been entertaining stuff, | :49:49. | :50:04. | |
plenty happening, that is for sure. United trying to finish the first | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
half strongly. One minute added on at the end, minimum of. Another | :50:10. | :50:17. | |
substitution earlier on. Dixon replaced Morris. -- there was a | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
substitution. Will someone make the breakthrough | :50:20. | :50:42. | |
before the interval? Hibs are going to get a chance. One last | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
opportunity to get the ball into the box. Here is the chance. When it | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
goes through, Bailly I is offside. No one touches the ball, linesman | :50:55. | :50:56. | |
doesn't see it. -- Bailly RA. Free kick goes united's way. He has | :50:57. | :51:20. | |
ended up having a fairly eventful first half, John Beaton, the | :51:21. | :51:21. | |
referee. Who was the happier manager? I think | :51:22. | :51:34. | |
Mixu. Look at the dominance Hibs have had on the ball, both sides are | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
going to look back at chances missed. Alan Stubbs is not good to | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
be happy with that missed opportunity. There is nothing | :51:45. | :51:53. | |
between their respective sides at the moment, though there possibly | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
should be. Billy Mackay the two gilt-edged opportunities. The second | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
was well offside. It doesn't matter any more, but Conrad Logan making a | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
couple of saves and Jason Cummings might be about to get a flea in the | :52:09. | :52:10. | |
couple of saves and Jason Cummings era from his manager after his | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
penalty went horribly wrong over the bar and that means at half-time in | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
the first of the William Hill Scottish Cup semis, it is 0-0. For | :52:20. | :52:29. | |
much of that first half, it looks as if Hibs are heading for the second | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
major cup final for the season. What a sucker punch that might have been | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
had Billy Mackay scored. When you're too has been on the run Hibs have | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
been on recently, that maybe wasn't the best idea from Jason Cummings. | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
He will be hearing all about it and it is a goalless at half-time. Let's | :52:47. | :52:55. | |
hear from Mark Wilson and from Pat Nevin as well. For much of that | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
half, it looked like the old team from the league below hips rather | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
than the one above. We said at the top of the show her love week United | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
look like that. I thought with this being a semifinal they would come | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
out and play like a Premiership side. They have been off the pace, | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
Hibs have controlled the ball for the majority of the game and | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
tactically I thought they were all over the place, especially with | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
their choice at left-back. Not a good first half but they still | :53:26. | :53:27. | |
their choice at left-back. Not a created two chances to score. How | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
will Hibs be feeling currently in the game is still goalless? | :53:33. | :53:44. | |
Groundhogs to day. Dominated possession, got into great | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
positions, not always made good chances but should be ahead. They | :53:50. | :53:52. | |
are not, and Hibs and have been watching for a good of time. Alan | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
Stubbs saying for long periods, we are playing really well but we're | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
not winning games. Sounding a bit like that just now and there will be | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
a lot of people watching thinking we are finding new and exciting ways to | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
mess up and it looks a bit like that just now. It just takes one goal for | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
his and that would relax them. -- Hibs. Let's look at the penalty. | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
This is a good shout from John Beaton. Quickly, it wasn't instantly | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
obvious. Yes, behind the play, not obvious. My first reaction, it is a | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
penalty. His arm comes up. I think Donaldson is a bit unlucky that he | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
attempts to head the ball but you can just see his armies in the | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
awkward position. It stops the ball, definitely. -- his arm is. Is it | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
still a Brit? You kind of needs to drag his arm away there. -- is it | :54:50. | :55:02. | |
deliberate? We'll say it is entertaining, but when you miss it | :55:03. | :55:13. | |
and the run that you're on. I think slightly on his head, in his head, | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
that Tuesday night he scored a penalty kick and he's might it into | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
the right-hand corner there. People think you will be really confident, | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
but your mind is thinking, do I do it in the same place? Do I do it | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
lower? That is probably why he has done it as he did. I feel sorry for | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
him because Hibs deserved to be one goal up. It is about percentages. | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
The run Hibs have been on, they have to get something powerfully on | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
course. Pat mentioned it there, the penalty scored on Tuesday night was | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
a beauty. I think just put your boot through it. His try to be too | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
clever. It is part of it, he scored two goals on Tuesday, he had the | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
confidence of a centre forward and he is not working in confidence that | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
the best of times anyway. I struggle to be too hard because when it | :56:18. | :56:19. | |
the best of times anyway. I struggle works, we all applaud and say well | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
done, fantastic. When it doesn't, it doesn't look good. For much of that | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
first half, we were asking the question who is playing left-back | :56:32. | :56:33. | |
for Dundee United and it was a good question. After about three seconds | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
I looked at the teams and I couldn't believe I saw Callum Morris at | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
left-back. I played with him and he is an outstanding centre-half. Not | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
one I thought could be can converted to that position. We all assumed | :56:50. | :56:58. | |
Sean Dillon would play left-back. There were so many examples of Hibs | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
exploiting weakness. It took them only a few minutes to realise what | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
was going on ahead of them. It is the additional, the full-backs have | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
to see the full position and if you look at Morris, he is totally caught | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
out, getting dragged to the ball. He shouldn't be going there, stay with | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
your man. The move comes from going down the right-hand side and Hibs | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
kept trying to exploit it. There he goes, he comes in. He would see Gray | :57:25. | :57:32. | |
bombing on and hold his position. In time and time again he got caught | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
out and I felt sorry for him because he has been asked to do a job and it | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
looks like he has been put in there without any thought. This one | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
particularly, you must read it. The guy is going wide, you must read | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
that is where to go. That is exact we what saying beforehand about not | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
a centre-back, there you go. You cannot afford to let... Full-back | :57:56. | :58:02. | |
star let that happen. Again, it came off there. I feel sorry for him. | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
He's trying to do a job for his team, he's not used to it and in my | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
opinion it is the manager's mistake putting in there. Don't think | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
there's much doubt that Hibs haven't created enough for a team that has | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
dominated that first half. Two out of three are long-range shot at | :58:26. | :58:34. | |
goal. If it is on target, you kind of want the goalkeeper to save that | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
one. It is a nice short but I read some statistics recently. If you | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
look at football, one in 20 shots from outside the box go in so you | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
need to have a hell of a lot of shots out there if you are going to | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
work. Have you thought of getting out of it more? Hanging around the | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
wrong people. But you are right about this, yes, getting balls into | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
dangerous areas. If it lands at Stokes's feet, you think it may get | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
to the back of the net but not from so far out. That is asking a lot. | :59:11. | :59:20. | |
Loads of possession, fantastic areas that Hibs are getting into, chances? | :59:21. | :59:27. | |
Very few. If you are a Hibs fan, you are not feeling good about the game | :59:28. | :59:30. | |
at the moment because Hibs have been running the show. That is the thing, | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
that is the worry. How many times have Hibs done this? They play so | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
well and fall at the final hurdle. It looks like the game is going that | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
way now. They have controlled the first half but they haven't taken | :59:45. | :59:49. | |
advantage. You would think Dundee United can't play that much worse in | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
the second half. You'd think that come out and have a go. Can you not | :59:53. | :59:57. | |
just feel a little lift at the end there from Dundee United. Not only | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
the tactical change, but getting the odd little half chance now. The | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
original stats where they had 64% of position Hibs had, when they did | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
have these little chances, that was your first question before the game, | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
have these little chances, that was what is he going to do? The first | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
thing you do, make yourself big, and he has managed to do that. I don't | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
think there is much doubt Conrad Logan has been a better shape. A | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
couple of absolutely crucial saves. That one we've just seen, this one | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
is good for him. That is what you practice in training every day. He | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
anticipated it. I don't know what he is thinking of here, but again, he | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
spreads and self and a top-class save. On the United side, you would | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
think Billy Mackay at the start of the season, more confident. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
That is a tough one for the assistant to see, because you would | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
expect the defender to get it, say what you like about Logan, he is | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
quick off his line, spreading himself. He's not leaving much to | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
the striker to go for, in that goal. You have got the above for that. He | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
has saved well there, is that a case of a new goalkeeper and a lack of | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
communication with Paul Hanlon? They train alongside each other every day | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
in training, I know that he has not played so much but... Hanlon should | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
deal with it, I don't like defenders standing off and waiting for a | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
goalkeeper, I like to see a defender or a goalkeeper clearing it | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
goalkeeper, I like to see a defender properly, and doing it properly. We | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
will come back to today semifinal, but a few words about the one | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
tomorrow, Rangers against Celtic, only the second time in four | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
seasons, this was 14 months ago a League Cup semifinal, 2-0 was the | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
final scoreline. With its and Connolly got the goals. 2-0, going | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
on a good deal more. There was an absolute chasm between the two clubs | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
at the time, it could have been 14 years ago, so little in common, with | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
the side. Not just personnel, but the way that they play. Their ideas | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
about how to play, the quality, the confidence, there was no confidence. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
The confidence in this Rangers team now, winning the league, winning the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
cup last week, beating Premiership opposition, this time, on their way | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
here. They have a better squad. The gap has definitely got more narrow | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
as the years have gone on. Fairly obvious that Rangers have improved, | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
have your old team, Celtic, have they improved? That is the question, | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
I don't think they have improved. Ronny Deila has said that we will | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
get better, but it has not happened, that is why it is so interesting. | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Celtic have stood still, Rangers have improved, how big is the gap? | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
We will find out. The result of the match was fairly inconsequential, | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
but Rangers winning the title by a country mile, James Tavernier, now | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
up to 14 goals for the season. All sorts of attacking options for | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Rangers midfield. The concern would be at the back end. The defence is | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
the question, comfortable in midfield, they have goals, playing | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
with confidence. The fans are behind them. Winning the cup, winning the | :03:48. | :03:59. | |
league, everything feeling good. I do not know how good he is going | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
forward. They will really get tested. If you somehow stop Rangers, | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
if you are Celtic, you have got to stop that left-back and back right | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
back hammering forward, if you can do that, you have done a good job in | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
stopping them. -- big job. He will have his own team in mind, but they | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
are almost certain to win this if they do that. 4-0, Rangers winning | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
at Hampden Park, against Peterhead, this was something of a | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
at Hampden Park, against Peterhead, reconnaissance mission for a lot of | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
players who had not been to the national stadium, getting a feel of | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
what it is like, a different playing surface, by this weekend, it allows | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
them to have a sampler. One of the goals of the season, but you get to | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
the stadium, especially if few have not been there, such a different | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
environment, Hampden Park, the fans are a wee bit further away, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
different pressure. Those guys have not sampled that, they will feel | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
better about themselves. No lack of confidence whatsoever. You have got | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
to be honest about this. That is the thing that would worry Rangers fans | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
right now. Four of the best buy is not playing, it is going to be | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
difficult. There is going to be live coverage on BBC radio Scotland, from | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
11:30am. The second of the William Hill Scottish Cup semifinals, and | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
11:30am. The second of the William you can see the best of the action | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
on sports scene, tomorrow, highlights, from this one, and that | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
one, from 10:30pm. I wonder, the way that the first | :05:40. | :05:52. | |
half ended, the penalty miss, Dundee United looking more of a force, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
would not have been difficult for them for the top they were not in | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
it. Do you think the match has turned a little towards United in | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
that half. I think they will go in feeling the happier side, that can | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
give you a lift when you go into the dressing room, and you think that | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
you are still in the game, I think they will come out a better side. | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
They cannot play any worse than they did in the first half, I would | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
expect United to have a real go. Have United got away with one so | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
far? They have, and Hibernian have not been finishing strongly | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
recently. Everyone has asked the question, really, what has been | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
wrong with Hibs, recently, it is tiredness, towards the end of the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
game. The story so far of the first of the Scottish Cup semifinals. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Hibs threatening the Dundee United goal from the very start, that could | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
have been a sucker punch, no credit to Jason Cummings for the glaring | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
penalty miss, boy was his face red at that point! Stokes going close, | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
not close enough for Hibs, as the first half came to a close, it is | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
0-0, heading into the second half at Hampden Park. Back to the commentary | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
team. COMMENTATOR: Hibernian about to get | :07:15. | :07:36. | |
us under way for the second half. The talk has been about Jason | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Cummings and the penalty miss, Zinedine Zidane, seventh minute of | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
the World Cup final, is it just about goes in on the underside of | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the bar, you are a national hero. Other side of the debate, the former | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Hibernian defender, he has been very critical at half-time, on social | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
media platforms. He says, is one of my team-mates did that in a semi and | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
we did not go through, I would rip off his head! You want what Alan | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Stubbs had to say to them at the break. CO-COMMENTATOR: He has got to | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
keep them going, he is the man most likely to score a goal. You have got | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
to lift players. This is a good early chance. Not a great touch by | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
John McGinn, looked like it was going to open up. That is the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
umpteenth time that Hibs have got into this position. Worth defending, | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
another chance gone. No changes for either team in the second half. Paul | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Dixon replacing Callum Morris. Towards the interval. | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
Hibs attacking the east end of the stadium. United going back towards. | :08:54. | :09:24. | |
Mixu Paatelainen staring down at the semifinal. | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
The Japanese goalkeeper has played at two World Cup finals tournaments. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
With Japan. Five clean sheets for the Dundee | :09:38. | :09:52. | |
United deeper since he arrived. Great play by McGinn, lovely play, | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
Sean Dillon left it. He has two deal with it. Fraser Fyvie... And | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
again... Hibernian almost a little guilty of trying to pass the ball | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
into the net. Willing to have a pop. Marvin Hartley has had a good game, | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
winning the ball back once again. John McGinn, Man of the Match in the | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Scotland game against Denmark. United again starting the second | :10:38. | :11:28. | |
half nervously. Defensively, they have blocked the goalkeeper. You | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
have got a clear your lines. Do not get caught playing it out from the | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
back. Probably Liam Henderson's poorest corner of the afternoon. | :11:43. | :12:50. | |
You would be a brave man to step up. No replays in Scottish Cup | :12:51. | :13:02. | |
semifinals anymore. If Bernie part in the last one. Jim McIntyre | :13:03. | :13:14. | |
scored. -- Hibernian. Knocking out Hibernian. | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
Jim McIntyre, scorer for Dundee United against Hibernian, 2005. | :13:26. | :13:50. | |
Conrad Logan Ingold today, because Mark Oxley was booked for time | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
wasting in the replay in invidious in the last round. -- Inverness. He | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
was looking for his contact lens, at the time... He was booked anyway. | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
Great ball, great take via David Gray. Jason Cummings was close. Not | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
close enough. What a goal that would have been, crossfield pass, take | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
into the box, Jason Cummings must have been so close. What a ball in | :14:31. | :14:42. | |
from David Gray. If you are a striker, that is the kind of ball, | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the kind of service that you want. Hibernian continuing their dominance | :14:49. | :14:49. | |
of the ball. Second period. Everything was quality, from that | :14:50. | :15:09. | |
ball, to the touch, early ball into the middle, Jason Cummings, just | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
half a yard away, David Gray, all of the pace on the ball, just needs a | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
touch, cannot get there. Not his afternoon. But plenty of time still. | :15:25. | :15:36. | |
Blair Spittal, that is poor. He had a really good first half to the | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
season, Blair Spittal, a rare shining light for this Dundee United | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
side. They need him, they need Erskine, they need the three players | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
playing under Mackay to get more involved in the first half, we saw | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
them in tandem in the first half at the Hibs end, causing problems but | :15:54. | :15:54. | |
we have not seen enough. This is to the ire of the Dundee | :15:55. | :16:12. | |
United supporters. Paul Dixon got himself into a really | :16:13. | :16:39. | |
good area. Erskine delayed it. Jason Cummings. That would have been | :16:40. | :17:05. | |
quite something. That work out as planned. Anthony Stokes, return | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
ball... Lovely understanding between | :17:10. | :17:23. | |
Henderson and Stokes. Neatly taken by the goalkeeper. That is a real | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
waste, I mentioned Hibernian don't have too many tall players, but the | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
two centre-backs, they have got to get there and get a chance. Look who | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
is there again for Hibs, United have struggled in the final third, every | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
time they have gone in there, Marvin Bartley, the majority of occasions, | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
as won it back for his team. It is the two Billy Mckayone-on-ones. This | :17:51. | :18:03. | |
is a chance, set play, get things sorted out, get bodies into the box. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
Thought they might try to take it short, seemed to take... | :18:10. | :18:29. | |
This is an a knife edge, two teams outperform and out of sorts. -- out | :18:30. | :19:13. | |
of form and out of sorts. What did you make of the surface? Looking | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
lush, green, cut nice and low, really holding up, it suits the | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
players, they can really get the ball fizzing about on it. | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Erskine, two ranking. They don't want to pass to Paul Dixon, for some | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
reason! -- Erskine, to Rankin. Stevens finding | :19:37. | :20:01. | |
Henderson. Offside flag up here. At least there was. | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
Henderson still things he is taking a corner. Clever ball from him, but | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
I think the fact that the delayed it, Lewis Stevenson must have got | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
the wrong side, and found himself half a yard offside. Dundee United, | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
twice winners of the competition, runners up 11 times. Hibernian | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
looking to get back to the Scottish Cup final after losing two in a row, | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
in 12 and 13, better outcome this time. Stretching something there. | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
Certainly no contact with the Hibs player, that is a hamstring that he | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
has tweaked, it is going to be difficult to see out 90 minutes. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Took off one of their best centre halves, in the first half, in Callum | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
Morris. I have seen Paul Paton play at full-back, I have seen him play | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
at centre-back, one of those players at full-back, I have seen him play | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
who does all over the park, but they will be hoping that this man can | :21:16. | :21:16. | |
continue. Well, he is smiling. Many options on the bench for Dundee | :21:17. | :21:48. | |
United, but not too many defensive options. They have Henri Anier, and | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
Florent Sinama Pongolle, among the attacking options, Edward Ofere, as | :21:57. | :21:57. | |
well. Erskine, back from Billy Mckay... | :21:58. | :22:16. | |
Got plenty behind it. Good play around the edge of the box from | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Dundee United and another decent save from the Hibs goalkeeper. | :22:20. | :22:33. | |
Winning all of these 50/50s. -- 50/50s. The Hibs bench. | :22:34. | :23:02. | |
Paul Thompson, Edinburgh boy, started his career at Kingston. | :23:03. | :23:22. | |
United see more of it. Last five minutes or so. | :23:23. | :23:45. | |
Corner, the assistant was not sure. Waiting for John Beaton to clarify | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
his position. Runner coming in the middle of the park. You have got to | :23:55. | :24:06. | |
see, coming back. Dundee United's first corner of the match. Taken by | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Erskine, Donaldson jumped. Did not get anything on it. It was a | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
sandwich, Paul Hanlon very close, Allan McGregor behind him, making | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
sure that he does not get a touch. -- Darren McGregor. Decent ball in, | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
whipped into a good area. That victory for Dundee United in 2005 at | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
this stage was Gordon Chisholm's first win as caretaker, against Tony | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Mowbray's team, they reach their first Scottish Cup final since 1994, | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
that day, the other semifinal meeting, in the 1993/94 League Cup, | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Darren Jackson scored the only goal for Hibs, in zero victory. -- in a | :24:51. | :25:02. | |
1-0 victory, another who played for both of these clubs. | :25:03. | :25:23. | |
Hibs six points behind Falkirk in the championship. Couple of games in | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
hand. It could be in their own hands, when it comes to finishing | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
second, the team that finishes third will be taking on Raith Rovers, in | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
the play-offs. Two games in hand. Mixu Paatelainen and Dundee United | :25:41. | :26:02. | |
would rip your arm off for a place in the play-offs right now. It is | :26:03. | :26:14. | |
all about the cup today. Here comes Paul Dixon. Erskine, two -- to | :26:15. | :26:27. | |
Rankin. United probing. Paul Paton, Paul Dixon. Erskine, two -- to | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Erskine... He was onside, still alive... Off the line by Hanlon! | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
Real chance for Dundee United, a lot of Hibs players standing with their | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
hands in the air, looking for offside rather than getting on with | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
the job, comes back, another decent blog, taking up a decent position on | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
the line, cover ball, little flick chests, onside, and United should | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
have made Hibernian pay, good defending, chances do not come a lot | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
better. Darren McGregor, Paul Hanlon, looked like taking the lead. | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
It is in from Blair Spittal... 6-2, in Hibs's favour, on the corner | :27:13. | :27:29. | |
kick. They do have a good understanding, Paul Paton and Chris | :27:30. | :27:30. | |
Erskine, played for Partick Thistle understanding, Paul Paton and Chris | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
together, Jackie McNamara brought them to Tannadice. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Stokes... Just came back of the wheel of Anthony Stokes. Scored six | :27:39. | :27:54. | |
times, double Scottish Cup winner. Man of the Match against Hibernian | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
in the final in 2013, 3-0 Celtic win. Game on as a sub to Jude a | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
couple of years before that, Celtic brushed aside Motherwell by the same | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
scoreline. Billy Mckay has been on the periphery of things. Couple of | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
chances in the first half. Stevenson. Less than 25 to play of | :28:18. | :28:34. | |
the 90, will we be going to extra time. United get that all wrong, | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
Marvin Bartley, Fraser Fyvie, now Henderson... David Gray... Sean | :28:44. | :28:53. | |
Dillon beats his countrymen Anthony Stokes to the ball. -- countryman. | :28:54. | :29:10. | |
Sense of anticipation among the Hibs supporters after all that but Dundee | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
United have won it back. Paul Paton. Out it goes to Kyle | :29:15. | :29:43. | |
Knoyle. He is onto it. Does just enough. So too does Fraser Fyvie, he | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
is going to get a free kick as well. Just a tangle of legs, enjoying a | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
bit of possession and territory. Not working the goalkeeper that often, | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
but the first half, they could not get hold of the ball, but | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
second-half, certainly going better for them. Neither of these teams | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
come here in good form at all, at what point would it come into the | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
mind of a player that things have not been going for us recently? It | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
is because things have not been going well recently that the nearer | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
the end of the game you beget, the more nervous you get, you get the | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
ball as far from you as possible, but Hibs cannot do that, they need | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
to get it down and play. -- it is because things have not been going | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
well recently that the nearer the end of the game you get, the more | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
nervous you get. All kinds of problems here... | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
Just one win in their last six league games for Dundee United. Just | :30:50. | :31:17. | |
one loss in their previous five. Many expecting them to crawl out of | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
the hole they have got themselves into. Space for David Gray here. | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
Stokes! Some people don't think Anthony | :31:28. | :31:44. | |
Stokes' move to Hibs has worked out for either party. He plays every | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
week so that tells me something about his attitude in training and | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
what the manager thinks. The fact it has coincided with a bit of a dip in | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
form, you can never blame one player for that. | :31:59. | :32:09. | |
Since beating hearts in their replay, they have only won three. | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
Alloa and Livingston in the league, Caley Thistle. Erskine tries to find | :32:18. | :32:25. | |
Mckay. We are about to go into the final | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
20. He has got United at the park. | :32:34. | :33:27. | |
Donaldson is down again. Out of your picture. He had to be treated | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
earlier on in the second half. I don't think he is going to last a | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
great deal longer. That is two or three times. A tweak in your | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
hamstring turns into ATA and you could be out for six weeks. He does | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
not want to go off, it is a semifinal, it is a big stage, but if | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
you can't sprint you could cost your team. You have got to say to the | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
manager, I could become a liability. You need to make a change. | :33:57. | :34:13. | |
He gave away the penalty in the first half. It was a disputed one. | :34:14. | :34:27. | |
He got away with it. Cummings failed to do what the team managed to do in | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
1976. I don't think United have got anyone to come on yet, have they? | :34:37. | :34:46. | |
Coll Donaldson has left his side playing with ten men and United have | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
not even got a sub ready. As soon as he went down, I thought the signal | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
had come on, you have got to make a change, somebody would be ready, and | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
you don't want to play for any period of time with ten men, because | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
if you are picked off, it does not look good. He is not happy, Coll | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
Donaldson. He was down for more than a minute. United have surely got to | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
be aware of the situation. Guy Demel is going to come on for United. Hibs | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
have a man advantage at the moment. They are seeking to profit. | :35:26. | :35:34. | |
United are getting away with another one. Fancher replaces Donaldson. -- | :35:35. | :35:51. | |
Demel replaces Donaldson. We will see where Demel takes a position. He | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
Demel replaces Donaldson. We will can see, he can certainly play at | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
the back. Guy Demel is going to be asked to go in there and fill that | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
hole next to Sean Dillon. He played for West Ham United. He was dropped | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
from the starting line-up today. Once upon a time, he won the | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund. Mixu Paatelainen is not a man to | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
fall out with. Donaldson is a tall man. I think the message is, stay | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
down, we get somebody on and we don't play with ten men. | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
They have got their full complement restored now, United. The ball into | :36:47. | :36:55. | |
the box is cut out by Stevenson. Just over 15 minutes left of the | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
first William Hill Scottish Cup semifinal. This is Paul Paton. | :37:00. | :37:18. | |
Chris Erskine went down earlier. Minutes ago. He has been important | :37:19. | :37:27. | |
to Dundee United in the second half in particular. He has made them look | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
like more of a threat in the final third. It is the Estonian who is | :37:34. | :37:41. | |
about to come on. That is the weight you get substituted. You sit there | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
and you refuse to move. The physio comes on. You give it a try and then | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
off you come and you are back to your full complement. | :37:52. | :38:01. | |
To get here, Hibs had to beat Raith Rovers, hearts, after a replay, | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
Caley Thistle after a replay. Dundee United came through against | :38:07. | :38:21. | |
Partick Thistle and Ross County to get to this stage. Henry and near | :38:22. | :38:29. | |
scored in the quarters. -- Anier scored in the quarters. He had a | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
loans fell at Hibernian. He is going to come on with the sole intention | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
of knocking them out of the Scottish Cup. He is a goal threat. He has | :38:42. | :38:48. | |
certainly got that going for him. A new test for the Hibs back division. | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
Not too many chances in the second half. The penalty in the first, the | :38:56. | :39:06. | |
two Mckay chances. And one of the line from Ryan Dow's deflected | :39:07. | :39:07. | |
effort. For Dundee United, that is three | :39:08. | :39:18. | |
service down and they could be quite a long way to go. Potentially, | :39:19. | :39:28. | |
effectively half a football match. On the new service, it does take its | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
toll. A high-stakes game. In sunny Glasgow. | :39:42. | :39:51. | |
A double change for Hibs at the moment. Two attacking players will | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
be coming on. I think it is going to be El Alagui certainly coming on and | :40:03. | :40:11. | |
Martin Boyle may be the other one. Whatever Alan Stubbs decides to do | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
here, it is a big call. Anthony Stokes is a big game player. He has | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
won this competition twice. Jason Cummings is your top scorer. He is | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
going to have to take at least one of them off. It is just a different | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
test for Dundee United now. They have tried to play through Hibs, | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
they have not managed to get there, and now it is a more robust striker, | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
someone you can hit early, and it is a new test. Guy Demel is on there, | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
someone you can hit early, and it is Sean Dillon. El Alagui will pose a | :40:48. | :40:48. | |
someone you can hit early, and it is real threat. They are holding off on | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
the Martin Boyle one. El Alagui had a brief spell at Dundee United, | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
didn't he? He has been blighted by injury this year. He is desperate to | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
get in there and play a part before the end of the season. At Falkirk, | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
he scored 27 in 43 appearances. A very different kind of threat to | :41:09. | :41:22. | |
what Stokes offers. The Cummings, Stokes partnership has not really | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
gelled yet so this might be the best thing to happen to Hibs. They have | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
got a lot of balls into the box, now they have got a striker in their | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
will feed off that kind of service. -- service. Can they keep getting | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
them in there? 11 minutes to play. A bit more even Stevens now. That | :41:40. | :42:00. | |
will be a concern for Alan Stubbs. This time last week, they were | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
preparing to take on already relegated Alloa and lost. 1-0. They | :42:05. | :42:12. | |
surrendered a 2-0 lead with three minutes to play against ten men at | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
home when they took on faltered in the league. -- Falkirk. All these | :42:17. | :42:25. | |
things I am sure will be going through the manager's mind. Both | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
managers. If your team has been losing recently, you fear the worst. | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
What can go against us, rather than thinking positive. Just under 20,000 | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
inside the National Stadium today. I am sure both clubs would have hoped | :42:46. | :42:46. | |
inside the National Stadium today. I for more. Dow. Knoyle. In those | :42:47. | :42:58. | |
Mckay and McGregor gets there! I am sure it will be very much on | :42:59. | :43:13. | |
the bucket list for Darren McGregor to lift the Scottish up playing for | :43:14. | :43:14. | |
Hibs. I tell you what, United are the | :43:15. | :43:36. | |
better team right now. They are looking sharp and they look up for | :43:37. | :43:37. | |
it. Henderson. El Alagui. That is the | :43:38. | :44:16. | |
first time that Kawashima has had to make a shave -- save in recent | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
times. A simple save for the goalkeeper as well. Just make sure | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
you don't spill it. Write down his throat. El Alagui knew he had lost | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
any impetus so we just decided to try his luck. Good play. Just shut | :44:31. | :44:42. | |
the door on Anier. After it had creaked open. | :44:43. | :45:21. | |
We are on a knife edge and Hampden Park. | :45:22. | :45:37. | |
It is the kind of time that if a goal goes in, it will put you in the | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
final. It would certainly help, a goal now, and it would be a | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
ding-dong last seven or eight minutes. You would certainly see | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
some end to end stuff. Hibs suffered recent heartache here. | :45:57. | :46:06. | |
They were thinking extra time that day. Ross County had used all their | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
Serbs that day. One or two were starting to run on empty. | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
Serbs that day. One or two were Gray is in a decent position. | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
A sore one for both players there. John McGinn looks like he's going be | :46:29. | :46:55. | |
OK. It looks like he gets caught in the back of the head. Both eyes on | :46:56. | :46:57. | |
the ball. That change we brought you exclusive | :46:58. | :47:12. | |
news of ages ago is now being made. Martin Boyle for Liam Henderson. | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
Liam Henderson missed out during the week so I am not sure if it is a | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
situation where his legs are starting to go. Alan Stubbs is | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
looking for something in the last starting to go. Alan Stubbs is | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
few minutes so he is bringing on a flying machine. What a goal it was | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
against Livingston a couple of weeks back. It looked like that was the | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
signal, for Hibs to go four across the midfield. | :47:40. | :47:46. | |
They have still got a change left. United have used all this. | :47:47. | :48:16. | |
Hibs looking to reach both major cup finals in the first calendar year | :48:17. | :48:26. | |
for the first time since 1972. -- in the same calendar year. | :48:27. | :48:36. | |
Only East Fife have won the Scottish Cup while playing outside the top | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
division. We have seen team from outside the top division play in the | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
final plenty in recent times. Falkirk last season. Ross County, | :48:47. | :48:54. | |
Queen of the South and Gretna, the others. | :48:55. | :49:39. | |
United go back to come forward. Hibs have not won at Hampden Park since | :49:40. | :49:48. | |
they beat Falkirk 4-3 in the breathtaking semifinal in this | :49:49. | :49:57. | |
competition. I wonder what the odds were on two 4-3 results. Stokes, who | :49:58. | :50:06. | |
is now off the park, scored the winner in extra time. | :50:07. | :50:27. | |
The final couple of minutes of the 90. The spectre of extra time is | :50:28. | :50:36. | |
looming large over the National stadium. | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
This is Blair Spittal. Paul Paton. United left it very late against | :50:43. | :50:54. | |
Ross County in the last round. Sean Dillon's ambitious ball for | :50:55. | :51:06. | |
Dixon. That is good defending. Talkers through what it is like at | :51:07. | :51:26. | |
this stage of such a big game. Nothing in it. Extra time is just | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
about upon us. You settle for the fact you are going to extra time. | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
Deep breaths, don't give anything away. Nobody wants to lose at this | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
stage in the game. Get the ball down the other end and prepare for | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
another 30 minutes. We have not heard how much injury | :51:45. | :51:55. | |
time is going to be added on at the end. A minimum of four minutes. That | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
is clever play initially. That is good play. Back to Fyvie. | :52:03. | :52:25. | |
Away by Dillon. Mckay will chase. McGregor will | :52:26. | :52:42. | |
cover. He has got a free kick as well as we go into stoppage time. | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
And he has a chance to hit El Alagui. Paul Hanlon is going | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
forward. You need to get one in the mixer. | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
McGregor. Gray. Here is Cummings! It just would not sit for him. | :53:02. | :53:13. | |
El Alagui. Three waiting in the middle in green and white. Others | :53:14. | :53:24. | |
arriving. Hibs looking for a late winner that would take them into the | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
Scottish Cup final. It would be their 14th. | :53:33. | :53:46. | |
Anyway will do for Kyle Knoyle there. | :53:47. | :53:59. | |
Dow has popped it through to Anier. Stevenson has to get there and does. | :54:00. | :54:08. | |
It is a really clever ball through to the long-running Anier. I thought | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
the fresh legs might make the difference but Stevenson did really | :54:16. | :54:15. | |
well to get back. I am not sure the referee is flavour | :54:16. | :54:48. | |
of the month. John McGinn falls on the ball. Knoyle is trying to win | :54:49. | :54:55. | |
it. If it is a free kick, it has got to be the other way. After the | :54:56. | :55:04. | |
injury time has come and gone. Anier. A free kick for Hibs. | :55:05. | :55:19. | |
You can blow the Bugle right about now. Everybody in the box. Just get | :55:20. | :55:27. | |
the ball forward. They have got cover for the centre-backs. Fyvie | :55:28. | :55:31. | |
takes. Away by Demel. Hibs have had some late heroics in | :55:32. | :55:52. | |
this competition this season as well. 2-macro-0 down at Tynecastle. | :55:53. | :56:05. | |
Hanlon salvaging a replay. Hibs then dispatched their neighbours. | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
Optimistic appeals for a free kick there. Here is Anier, up against | :56:13. | :56:20. | |
Hanlon. Has he won a corner? No, free kick. I think the referee would | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
love to blow now and get into stoppage time. | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
Ryan Dow has been booked in the wake of all that. I think he must have | :56:34. | :56:46. | |
felt he had a word with the referee and he has got himself booked, which | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
is not the best thing to be doing at this stage of a game of this | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
magnitude. He would is not one of those who would miss the final with | :56:56. | :57:03. | |
a yellow to bash today. The final whistle. Billy McBryde has had their | :57:04. | :57:11. | |
two best chances. And that man Conrad Logan has made a save on each | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
occasion. But we are still talking about Cummings's failure to score | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
from that first half penalty and the importance of that is growing by the | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
minute at Hampden Park. As we prepare for extra time, it is | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
goalless. Cummings missed that first half | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
penalty and he Mike Havenaar the web to take before we finished at | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
Hampden Park. The semifinal, if it cannot be settled in the next | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
half-hour, that is a thought going through his head at the moment. Hibs | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
dominated the first half. The second half much more even and it is really | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
difficult to call. Extremely difficult to call. Maybe the first | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
ten minutes of the second half, Hibs played well, but after that Dundee | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
United came into it a little bit more. Dundee defended really well. | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
They have got stronger and stronger as the game has gone on. They got to | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
the byline a few times but could not pick anyone out. In the end, the | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
most important thing, apart from the penalty kick, I think the best | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
chances have fallen to Dundee United. Has the balance shifted the | :58:28. | :58:34. | |
way of your old team? The first ten minutes, I thought Hibs came out the | :58:35. | :58:37. | |
same. United looked like they were going to perform the same as the | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
first half. They had a few chances. Gray flashed it across. I feared for | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
Dundee United but they came back into it. They started to keep the | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
ball bit better and created a few chances and probably had the best | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
chance of the second half. It was a horrific block in the end by | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
McGregor. But I think Mixu Paatelainen will be happy because | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
Hibs controlled the majority of it. The majority -- the only worry would | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
be the tired legs. They have both been really positive. I said at | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
half-time, Hibs, for me, I think it has been a case of putting so much | :59:20. | :59:26. | |
effort into the game, they have faded near the end of games. The | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
likes of Henderson and McGinn, who were able to keep it going, | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
eventually, in the length of a season, legs will tire, even for | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
young men as well. You can see it with some of those Hibs players. | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
They are not getting up to support the strikers at the moment. Stokes | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
in particular at the end. Both teams are tired. Maybe it is a question of | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
who is the most tired. Jason Cummings is still the story at the | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
moment from a negative point of view. Could he turned that on its | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
head and become the hero in the next half an hour? He is one of these | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
players that has the ability to do that. We have seen time and time | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
again him popping up with terrific goals. Is that still playing on his | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
mind? There has been a lot of places that penalty miss two full-time and | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
he must have thought one of his team-mates will help him out. That | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
has not happened so it is on his mind. Can I make one absolute guess? | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
If it comes to a penalty, he won't think the next one. The one thing I | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
would say about Hibs, Cummings has got legs left and that is going to | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
trouble Dundee United. Mixu Paatelainen almost walks into the | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
camera there. We were read and I guess those Hibs fans worried about | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
the goalkeeping position. Conrad Logan has not put a foot long. He | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
has been brilliant. That saves he made in the first half were | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
outstanding. I think he is getting a touch on that because he spreads | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
himself, makes himself difficult to beat. His kicking is brilliant. It | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
clears the halfway line. He has been a real plus point for Hibs. | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
COMMENTATOR: A couple of players have popped off for... Comfort | :01:30. | :01:49. | |
breaks... We understand, so we will have to wait a moment longer. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
After 2007, replays were abolished, at this stage, losing to | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
Dunfermline, Celtic were the last victims of the replay. Jim McIntyre | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
did what Jason Cummings didn't, this afternoon. -- couldn't. | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
30 minutes to decide who will be going to the Scottish Cup final, if | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
we still don't know the penalty shoot out will take place. As Jason | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
Cummings will still get is due from the spot this afternoon. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
CO-COMMENTATOR: Difficult to pick a winner. Could not decide who you | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
CO-COMMENTATOR: Difficult to pick a could make as favourites this | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
afternoon. Some tired legs out there. Let's hope that it is a | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
wonder goal, if somebody scores I wonder goal it is better than | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
somebody making a mistake. With 15 minutes left of the 90, Dundee | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
United had used all of their substitutions. | :03:06. | :03:30. | |
Real self belief, Jason Cummings. Scored in the first leg of the pile | :03:31. | :03:46. | |
final, couple of years back, he said that he can open a tin of beans with | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
his left full. Getting just about enough there. | :03:54. | :04:11. | |
Says it all on the scoreline, both teams have defended pretty well | :04:12. | :04:36. | |
throughout. Forces that to Rankin. Blair Spittal popping up on the | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
left. That is what you are looking for, anybody in the wide area, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
one-on-one situation, trying to get to the byline. Any cross that is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
blocked, still playing the final third. Corner kick keeps the | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
pressure on Hibernian. Took many years to find a goalless draw | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
between these two, until now. It comes, the keeper is there. | :05:05. | :05:25. | |
He is quick but he is not that quick. Too many Hibs players getting | :05:26. | :05:38. | |
behind the ball but doing nothing. You have got to come closer, you | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
have got to get closer to your opposite number, it cannot allow | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
players to come off, take touches, and begin spreading it around. Billy | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Mckay is offside. They have started extra time really | :05:49. | :06:16. | |
well. Little passes, getting players involved. Hibs getting themselves a | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
little bit too deep. Who knows the kind of impact that a semifinal will | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
have an the survival battle. Big favourites to be relegated from the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Premiership. Eight points behind Kilmarnock. | :06:40. | :06:53. | |
Farida El Alagui may be coming off. He himself was a substitute. As was | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
mentioned at the time, there has been injuries. Two Hibs players have | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
clashed there, McGregor and David Gray. And it is going to be the sub | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
the Jewish and we expected, the nightmare really cannot stop, it | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
continues, cannot get games under his belt, he has come on open to do | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
something special. -- it is going to be the substitution that week 's bet | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
Farida El Alagui is coming. -- Farid El Alagui. You can see edged all | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
over his face, the disappointment. Chris Daigle has not yet scored for | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
this club, Dundee United have begun extra time more positively. I have a | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
corner here. Player of the Year at Rangers last | :07:58. | :08:09. | |
season, they did Long throw from Rankin. Dylan gave | :08:10. | :08:21. | |
it away. Goodbye. Paul Paton volleys it out. Blair | :08:22. | :08:45. | |
Spittal... Beaten to it. Has not been the influence on the | :08:46. | :09:17. | |
game that we all know that he can be. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Keeper had to make the save. John Rankin thought that he was scoring. | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
More than capable, John Rankin, fires its download, wonderful save, | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
bottom corner. Decent strike, great save. Famously scored goals like | :09:38. | :09:52. | |
that for Hibs. Another Blair Spittal corner. | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
He has a couple this season, Paton, never looked likely there. A | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
lot of wrestling going in, cannot get his head to it, made his mind to | :10:11. | :10:22. | |
go for the volley. Mixu Paatelainen, called in young, his assistant, they | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
must be delighted with the way that the extra time has gone, still 0-0. | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
Krist Admiral, to Stevenson. -- Krist Dagnall. -- Chris Dagnall. One | :10:34. | :10:48. | |
heavy touch has killed the mood. It was never going to catch it. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
heavy touch has killed the mood. It desertion, Dundee United, at one | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
heavy touch has killed the mood. It point, it was up at 67 in the favour | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
of Hibernian. Most of the first half. Totally dominated, as the game | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
has gone on. They have themselves into it. They have begun to pass the | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
ball far better. Mark Wilson mentioned the kicking of | :11:09. | :11:22. | |
Conrad Logan, there is another good example of it. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
You just wonder if Dundee United have to take advantage of this spell | :11:29. | :12:01. | |
of domination they are enjoying. You have got to hurt the opposition, the | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
only way to do that, scoring goals. Certainly looked more lively since | :12:04. | :12:57. | |
coming on. Until recently, Leicester City, 13 years at Leicester City, | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
loads of loan spells. Boyle is the better target there. | :12:59. | :13:33. | |
But it has got to be on the ground. It has got to be perfect, far too | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
much on it, no chance. Hibs enjoying city 7% of possession | :13:36. | :14:20. | |
in the second half, but in the first period of extra time, the exact same | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
amount for Dundee United, and the first period of extra time | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
amount for Dundee United, and the another three minutes to | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
run full stealing a march on Hanlon. Good cover. Saw that his centre-back | :14:40. | :14:51. | |
partner was in trouble, clever ball in behind Hanlon. McGregor, making | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
it difficult. Forced it through... What a save! | :14:55. | :15:16. | |
Still alive... Conrad Logan has just received a standing ovation from the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Hibernian supporters. He has been a real star turned today. Quick... | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Gets off his line so well, once again, spreads himself, that is an | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
easy save, the first one, Hibs needed that, Dundee United, what a | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
chance. Immediate attention being required for Blair Spittal. They | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
have used all their substitute, now, both teams have. Martin Boyle going | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
through... He has caught him on the both teams have. Martin Boyle going | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
shoulder, by the look of things. Hoping that it is one of those | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
injuries, just a clash, nothing that... Cannot afford to take him | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
off the park. Here is the save again, not for the first time, | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Conrad Logan... He gets there, makes himself big, brilliant stop. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
Absolute star. These Hibs boulders have not seen | :16:19. | :16:45. | |
their team lift the Scottish Cup, many of them. Not many generations | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
of Hibs fans have. -- these Hibs supporters. Is unfortunate it has | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
big one of these talking points. -- it is unfortunate that it has become | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
one of these talking points. They have the win it sometime, as we said | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
earlier. I am 56, I have been saying that since I knew what football was! | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
These things can hang around. It is a good job that the Hamdan | :17:13. | :17:29. | |
playing surface is looking tiptop, given the extra time to deal with | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
today. -- Hampden. One minute added on and if Hibs go through today, | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Conrad Logan, you would imagine, will be getting some kind of special | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
prize, from Jason Cummings, after that horrible penalty miss in the | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
first half. It is ambitious, from Dixon. As soon as you see him coming | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
onto the right foot he is... You have got to be thinking, make a | :18:06. | :18:06. | |
pass, make a pass, he could not help have got to be thinking, make a | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
himself. This man has been the star turn. 16 months? Big game, big | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
occasion, had to be nervous, he has not put a foot wrong. Play for | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Rochdale, in a 2-2 draw with Notts County... 16 months, December, | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Rochdale, in a 2-2 draw with Notts 2014...! Here he is, the hero of the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
hour, denying Henri Anier, in extra time, we are no closer to finding | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
out which will be the first team in the Scottish Cup final. 0-0. | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
The second semifinal taking place here tomorrow, midday kick-off, | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
Rangers against Celtic. That match will be live on BBC radio Scotland, | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
the frequencies tomorrow, from 11:30am, kick-off 12pm. Craig | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Paterson, we do not know who the winners of that will be playing. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
Absolutely no idea, and the players who have a penalty kick to take will | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
want to settle the situation before they go into that arena. United on | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
top, creating chances. Another save to make. At the other end, Conrad | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Logan has been absolutely terrific. Can Hibernian wrestle back control? | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
Will united state on top? -- will Dundee United stay on top, can they | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
create one last chance? The magnitude of the penalty, this gets | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
bigger and bigger, longer this plays out. The longer it plays out without | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Hibs scoring. It is horrible for the players, you would rather have a | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
replay, go at it again. The substitutes have been used, these | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
guys that are out there, they are the ones that will have to deal with | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
it, will there be a hero? Will the players have to go through the | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
torture of the penalty shoot out. 200 meeting between the two. 14th in | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
the Scottish Cup, Hibernian have one four, Dundee United, five, and there | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
have been four drawers, four replays. Dundee United have looked | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
the better team in extra time. -- Hibernian have won four, Dundee | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
United have won five. 105 minutes without a goal. You | :20:44. | :21:02. | |
would think that most people would put money on a shoot out now. Such | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
was Hibs's early season form, they thumped Dundee United in the League | :21:12. | :21:23. | |
Cup tie, played at Easter Road, 3-0. They have not been able to recapture | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
it, in recent times. The cross from Fraser Fyvie sums up the current | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
form. What has gone wrong? , You have got to credit Dundee United, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
final system, working hard, making the play, I really don't know... | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
Anthony Stokes, Liam Henderson... The guys that are out there, they | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
are plenty enough, they have got to stand up and be counted at this | :21:53. | :21:53. | |
stage. Rankin felt that he was fouled. | :21:54. | :22:14. | |
Quite a time of things, since the first half. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Goalkeeper decided to punch that, looking unorthodox, again, from Eiji | :22:22. | :22:37. | |
Kawashima, the Japanese. Jason Cummings looking for the top corner. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Time to bring Hibernian to life. Dispiriting season for Dundee | :22:42. | :23:28. | |
United, six wins in 33 league games. The Scottish Cup has given them a | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
nice distraction. Here is John Rankin. | :23:36. | :24:03. | |
If he does not put arms over Sean Dillon, he has a chance of winning a | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
free kick. Shot well, can the goalkeeper catch that? I suppose he | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
decided not to take the chance. Rather clawed it away. He is from | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
just north of Tokyo, he is from Yono, Saitama. He featured at | :24:22. | :24:41. | |
World Cup in Brazil and South Africa, for Japan. | :24:42. | :25:12. | |
Fraser Fyvie... Ten minutes until the lottery. | :25:13. | :25:44. | |
So tense out there! Both teams losing the ball. | :25:45. | :26:08. | |
Lovely turn, from Blair Spittal. Poor pass, though. For all of their | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
domination, still finding it difficult to create chances. Good | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
turn by Blair Spittal, once again, it is the weight of the past, the | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
most important thing and he fails to get it right. The extra assistance | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
for the Scottish Cup semifinal, this afternoon, tomorrow's one as well, | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
Alan Mear and Andrew Dallas. That is something I didn't even notice! -- | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
Alan Muir. They have not had much to do, not much to do, no great impact | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
in the game so far. Won back by Dagnall, for Hibs. | :26:56. | :27:18. | |
Cannot prevent the corner... For the first time in a while, Hanlon and | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
McGregor get to stretch their legs and get forward for this corner, | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
John McGinn is going to keep this away from the goalkeeper. | :27:27. | :27:36. | |
Nothing doing for Hibs. All sorts of players flying through, at the back | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
post. McGregor has gone through the back, trying to spin their... | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
Wrestling, jostling, the referee decides it has come from a Hibs | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
buyer, and it is a goal kick. Alan Stubbs arrived at what was | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
effectively a basket case a couple of years ago. Hardly any players to | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
begin with either. -- spin there. Took a little while to get going, | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
but apart from the recent trials they have had on the football pitch, | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
you have got to give a lot of credit to Rod Petrie, for the job they have | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
been doing behind-the-scenes, but he has really turned things around, by | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
and large, a promotion is required now, though, Scottish Cup would of | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
easily be phenomenal, as Mixu Paatelainen... Played in a certain | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
final, which you will remember, with many great memories, best Scottish | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
Cup final of all time, unless you are a Dundee United fan! Motherwell, | :28:47. | :28:55. | |
winning it. Nobody in tangerine, other than Blair Spittal, | :28:56. | :28:56. | |
retrieving. Good play by John McGinn, but that | :28:57. | :29:10. | |
is not the area where they want to see him doing his stuff, it is at | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
the other end, needs must. Goal side of Lewis Stevenson. Some good | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
ground, strong enough to see it out for the goalkick. | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
Scottish Cup semifinals do not often go to penalties. Heading that way. | :29:26. | :29:36. | |
Surely Jason Cummings will not be going for the chip shot, gets the | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
chance. Almost broke for Henri Anier, | :29:41. | :30:11. | |
McGregor was there, Fraser Fyvie getting it away. That is tired legs | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
and a poor touch going back towards his own goal. | :30:16. | :30:42. | |
Less than five to play of extra time. | :30:43. | :31:03. | |
Hibs looking at bit jittery in defence all of a sudden. I would not | :31:04. | :31:11. | |
say it is their strong point, defending at depth, and they are | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
being forced back. They are being caused real problems. | :31:16. | :31:29. | |
It has not been the prettiest extra time, that is for sure. Both | :31:30. | :32:12. | |
struggling. United were in the Scottish Cup | :32:13. | :33:09. | |
final as recently as two years ago and they lost to St Johnstone. Hibs | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
fell at the semis stage last year. The final couple of minutes. This is | :33:16. | :33:29. | |
Dixon. Rankin. Dixon continued his run. A | :33:30. | :33:46. | |
big moment her potentially! Read by Lewis Stevenson. Intelligent | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
defending. He saw the danger. In fact, Hibs have not looked like | :33:50. | :34:04. | |
scoring since the penalty. One shot on target, the Cummings one, which | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
was a comfortable save. United have certainly looks stronger in extra | :34:10. | :34:10. | |
time. Just one minute of football left to | :34:11. | :34:24. | |
be played this afternoon. And then it is penalties. | :34:25. | :34:32. | |
Paton winds one. Well away. He just snatched at it. Hibs did close him | :34:33. | :34:51. | |
down so he had to pull the trigger quickly. It is one touch and then he | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
has cut right across it. I am sure Jason Cummings will get | :34:55. | :35:20. | |
the chance to make up for that miss in the shoot out, which we are very | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
close to now. The referee has had a look at his watch. He has blown his | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
whistle and the first William Hill Scottish Cup semifinal is going to a | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
penalty shoot out. Drama Abbey National Stadium. It finished after | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
extra time goalless. Hibs were the better team right from | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
the start, from the first half an hour, but missed a penalty. Since | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
then, as this two hours have progressed, Dundee United ending be | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
stronger and better team. All of which matters not a jot because it | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
is penalties. Absolutely not. They look stronger, they look fitter. I | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
suggested that after the first half. But the positive that the Hibs fans | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
will be thinking, who has been the Man of the Match so far? I am going | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
for Conrad Logan and he is going to be in goal. They will be delighted | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
because he is absolutely buzzing with confidence. Kawashima, what has | :36:27. | :36:35. | |
he had to do so far? What a story that would be, if Conrad Logan, his | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
last game for months ago for Rochdale, only signed two or three | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
weeks ago, not the best of condition one might surmise, but four | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
brilliant saves. It is a fairy tale story for the guy. He has come in, | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
people did not know what to expect from him because not many people had | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
seen him. But he has shown what a quality keeper he is. Especially | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
that last one, when Anier went through. Terrific, down to his right | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
hand side. On a technical side, from crosses, his petition -- positional | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
sense as well, but it counts for nothing if the penalties are right. | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
For me, the Dundee United players have grown in confidence as the game | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
has gone on. Stokes has gone off and the other one has missed a penalty | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
already for Hibernian. There are so many ways you can look at | :37:40. | :37:51. | |
Cummings has already missed one and if that is in your head, it is never | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
good. You are thinking, the next one, you are going to put your laces | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
on it. Not if you have got a dodgy groin. So many questions right now. | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
But both managers have to look at the faces and say, who is confident? | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
Who has got the bottle to do it? It is all those things. Willie did you | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
tend to be in the queue for the penalty shoot outs? I was not in the | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
queue. I was hiding behind the physio. I was never selected. I was | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
always overlooked on these occasions, which I was never too | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
disappointed about. Everybody tells you they are not really spooked by | :38:36. | :38:44. | |
it. How were you at penalties? It is a horrible feeling. There is no joy | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
in it. Even when you get it, it is just too a relief. Joy for the | :38:50. | :38:57. | |
neutral watching it. This is now pure excitement. To be fair, the way | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
they have played, I don't know if the game deserved to finish any | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
other way. No team deserved to fully win. We are very much into that | :39:07. | :39:15. | |
stage of this first semifinal. A penalty shoot out. Is that the Hiro | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
in the middle of the television picture? At the moment, it is all | :39:22. | :39:28. | |
about to be settled. Back to Liam and Craig for the story of this | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
penalty shoot out. Blair Spittal is up first. The | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
penalties being taken into the East goal of Hampden Park. United went | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
through against Hibs on penalties in the quarterfinal of the League Cup | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
last season. Blair Spittal is up first. Well, wouldn't you know it? | :39:49. | :40:00. | |
The man of the moment does it again. It is not a great penalty. It is a | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
good height, he gets it right and he gets his hands behind it and | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
advantage Hibs straightaway. Far too close to the goalkeeper and a decent | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
save. The earliest possible advantage for Hibernian. John McGinn | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
to put them in front. And does! As decisive as you get. That is the | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
difference. The goalkeeper guesses right this time but the penalty is | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
too good. Too much pace on the ball. Kawashima goes to his right but he | :40:38. | :40:48. | |
is never getting there. And another save! Logan! Absolutely incredible. | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
He is having the game of his life. He may not have played for a while | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
but he has been an absolute star. And this is a better penalty. He | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
gets his hands behind it and that is another horrific save. He has | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
already put Hibernian one foot in the final. -- another terrific save. | :41:14. | :41:27. | |
They are so close! That is a never horrific penalty by Hibs, drilled | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
into the bottom corner. -- another terrific penalty. We are already at | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
the point here where Paul Dixon simply has to score for Dundee | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
United. He does. They are still breathing. No question about that | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
one. That is exactly what United needed to keep themselves in the | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
tide. Right in the corner. But they have taken three and only scored one | :42:03. | :42:11. | |
of them. Martin Boyle has the chance to take Hibernian closer to the | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
final. Scored a wonder goal recently. This is a lot closer. | :42:16. | :42:24. | |
A wonderful penalty. They are just about there. Every penalty Hibs have | :42:25. | :42:36. | |
struck has been an absolute pearl. It is highly past the goalkeeper. | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
There is a chance for the goalkeeper but the pace beat him again. This | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
has got to go in or Hibs are through. It is Guy Demel. The weight | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
of the world on his shoulders. That is a terrific penalty from | :42:51. | :43:02. | |
facture and he just about keeps Dundee United going -- from Demel. | :43:03. | :43:09. | |
He is going straight down the middle. Well, well, wouldn't you | :43:10. | :43:18. | |
believe this? Jason Cummings has the chance to put Hibernian into the | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
final. Coming after that horror story in the first half. It is one | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
of these ones, you know he is not going to chip it, but he has two | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
options. You can go for the corner or just go for power. It is Glory, | :43:35. | :43:50. | |
Glory. Jason Cummings can erase all mammaries of that penalty miss in | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
the first half. He has taken Hibs through to the final with more than | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
a helping hand from Conrad Logan. The Hibs fans would not known much | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
about him before today. Alan Stubbs has guided Hibernian into the | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
Scottish Cup final and with a chance again of perhaps ending that long, | :44:16. | :44:23. | |
long, long wait for Scottish Cup success. Scottish Cup success that | :44:24. | :44:31. | |
this club craves. 114 long years since they last won it. Jason | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
Cummings with the winning penalty in the shoot out. Conrad Logan is an | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
absolute star today. He has made some marvellous saves, anything that | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
came into the box he dealt with, and sometimes you get days like that. He | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
is Man of the Match today. But I have got a feel for Dundee United. | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
They dealt with the early pressure from Hibs. As the game went on they | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
got stronger and stronger and stronger. But it goes to penalties | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
and it is down to who can find the back of the net. His' penalties were | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
good and the keeper was a star all afternoon. It is his heading for the | :45:13. | :45:20. | |
final. You have got a feel for Dundee United. What a job Mixu | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
Paatelainen has on his hands to try and lift their spirits ahead of the | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
running to try and avoid what looks like a certain relegation. The | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
supporters will believe they were about to win this. And that is | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
Hibernian lifting the Scottish Cup. Last time they did it was in 1902. | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
It was the year Real Madrid were founded. The Royal Navy's first | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
submarine was launched in that year. The Hibs fans are no stranger to | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
those lines. They have had to listen to them for years and years and | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
years. But right now, they will celebrate and it will be they who | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
will be back here on Saturday May the 21st where they will take on | :46:10. | :46:12. | |
will be back here on Saturday May either Rangers or Celtic, who meet | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
tomorrow. But for now, that is for another day. They have got huge fish | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
to fry in the coming weeks. The championship run in. The chance to | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
try and get that second place back of Falkirk. It would mean less games | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
in the arduous play-off that they will have to go through. Potentially | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
three ties to get back to where they belong, in the Premiership. Jason | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
Cummings has dodged a big bullet. That is an incredible day for him | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
because he must have known that if they were knocked out, he was the | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
man who was going to be blamed. It finished goalless after extra time. | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
Jason Cummings with the winning penalty. But he had huge assistance | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
from Conrad Logan. I am wondering if fairy tale is the | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
word to describe this afternoon? Yes. Unbelievable. Everything went | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
my way. Absolutely delighted and delighted for the boys as well | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
because they put a proper shift him. I have not been here that long. As | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
you say, every time United got the chance, you were there to stop it. | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
That is what I am paid for. You get lucky Sundays. You make yourself | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
big. I like to think you make yourself -- your own luck. I am | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
delighted. It looks like you are a new cult hero for the fans. Everyone | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
is buzzing. There is no better way to win a cup game than a penalty | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
shoot out. Just delighted to be part of it. Would you have believed a few | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
weeks ago that you would have been the Euro at Hampden Park? No. It was | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
my first game in 16 months. I am just grateful for the manager | :48:09. | :48:11. | |
bringing me in and giving me a chance. I felt I was getting back to | :48:12. | :48:19. | |
fitness. Obviously, there are few games be for the end of the season. | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
I am delighted the manager took Mia Pearce and also playing me today | :48:25. | :48:36. | |
because we have got Otso Virtanen as well. Congratulations today. | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
because we have got Otso Virtanen as What a good decision that was, to | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
pitch in Conrad Logan. The penalty shoot out was the script writer's | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
dream. The new goalkeeper who barely knew his team-mates saves shots in | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
open play, saves a couple of penalties and Jason Cummings who | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
missed from the spot takes Hibs to their second cup final of the | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
season. It is a phenomenal story. When he went to bed last night, | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
Conrad Logan, I bet he wished this would happen. Everything he would | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
have dreamt of happening would -- has happened for him. After the | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
first two penalties, he must have thought, can anyone beat him today? | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
He was Man of the Match after 90 minutes. And then it just got better | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
after that. Absolutely astonishing. You have to say that Dundee United's | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
first couple of penalties were not great. They were poor but you have | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
got to give Logan the respect he deserves today. I'm sure when Blair | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
Spittal looks back at his penalty, he could have done better. The | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
goalkeeper has got to save them and he has guessed correctly. I love | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
stories like that. An underdog story, a guy coming out of nowhere, | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
no expectations. That is a decent save. And in sharp contrast to a | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
little bit of indecision, Spittal's was not great, but everyone of Hibs' | :50:05. | :50:06. | |
penalties were perfect. The manager was not great, but everyone of Hibs' | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
seemed to believe in his players. Let's hear from Alan Stubbs. | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
Congratulations. Can you sum up your emotions after that? I am delighted. | :50:20. | :50:27. | |
There are parts of me that feels sorry for Dundee United because it | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
is never a great way to lose a semifinal, penalties. It is a cruel | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
way. You have seen the of it. I do feel for them lads in dressing room. | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
They put a lot of effort in. In the first half we were good, I thought | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
we were the better team and I thought Dundee United came into the | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
second half and it got to a point where it was both teams not wanting | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
to lose the game. Talk to me about Conrad Logan's game today. I think | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
people have been questioning me all week and it could have easily been | :51:04. | :51:11. | |
not so. But I went for his experience and it looks like I made | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
the right call. Does Jason Cummings owe him a great debt of gratitude? | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
He certainly does. He has taken vital penalties for us and he is a | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
confident boy. But if he takes his penalties that way and he has scored | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
like that before, I don't mind, but I don't want him to start practising | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
penalties like that in a semifinal. Did he give you any explanation for | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
that? When you are taking penalties, it is a spur of the moment. You have | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
got to have a strong character and he has certainly got that. If it | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
goes in, everybody is talking about how calm and cool but when they | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
don't, people are talking about how stupid it looks. And here is the | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
man. Can you explain to your manager? I asked the boys, is this | :52:00. | :52:09. | |
for me to win it? I went, I was a bit nervous, but I was just buzzing | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
when it went in. The first penalty, a big question from the fans, why? I | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
tried to dink it but I did not pull it off. I can say that now, getting | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
the winner, but at the time I was thinking, it is not my day. But when | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
I realised it was the winning penalty, I had a chance to win it, I | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
was delighted. Is he for given, given he scored the winning penalty? | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
On here, I will, but wait until he gets back in the dressing room! It | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
is fair to say Jason Cummings has recovered his confidence after what | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
happened in the first half because it was glory, glory at the end. But | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
what about this from the first half? Donaldson handled the ball. I felt | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
sorry for Donaldson because I don't know if he really meant it. But you | :53:09. | :53:15. | |
can't understand why it is given. -- you can understand. But he has done | :53:16. | :53:29. | |
that first penalty from his mind. That is exactly the kind of guy you | :53:30. | :53:36. | |
want on penalty kicks. That's what I said, mentality Weiss, was he still | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
up to it? But he showed that in the last penalty kick. I am sure he is | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
sitting there thankful that he had a chance to make up for that. It | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
really is quite an interesting thing that when he is immediately asked | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
about the penalty kick after the game, he is not thinking of the | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
other one, he is thinking of the one he just scored. He had a hard day | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
today. But he always works his socks off. Hibs were a wee bit lucky in | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
the end. Dundee United got better and better. And the conversation as | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
Alan Stubbs was saying will not be quite so polite when they get in | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
private. I think that was a little bit tongue in cheek. If they had | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
lost it, he would have really let the player know what he thought, but | :54:31. | :54:34. | |
right now they will all be happy in that dressing room. Jason Cummings | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
put that final one away. The understatement of the day is that | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
Alan Stubbs thinks he got the goalkeeper decision right. Conrad | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
Logan had the date of his dreams. I watch his regularly but many people | :54:48. | :55:01. | |
know nothing about him. The way he covered the ground, also his timing | :55:02. | :55:03. | |
of it, it looks like a bad miss but covered the ground, also his timing | :55:04. | :55:13. | |
there is not much to get. And again, look, that is not his mistake but | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
there is not much angle there. He has got his angles right every time. | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
He should have been offside. It is offside. I know he is not in the | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
best shape but it does make a difference how big he gets himself. | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
I like this one as well. This is right in the bottom corner. That is | :55:35. | :55:44. | |
a great save. You heard him say, I am not to fitness yet. But he has | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
got himself fit enough that he can get down to that. This is so similar | :55:50. | :55:57. | |
to the other ones. Look at that. He is right on top of him. I think that | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
is his best one. The way he spreads himself, his right hand, it is his | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
right hand. He thoroughly deserves the Man of the Match award. Does he | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
keep his place? If it was just a couple of great saves and reaction | :56:18. | :56:20. | |
keep his place? If it was just a saves, that sort of thing, you would | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
say, maybe not. He has had a dream day. But it was not like that. He's | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
covering was good, his punching was good, his timing was great. He | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
actually played really well all the way through. And all the different | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
parts. You have seen many goalkeepers have the dream day. It | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
looks like more than that for him. The Hibs fans are celebrating a | :56:46. | :56:51. | |
place in the final. Are they also dreading what another cup final | :56:52. | :56:54. | |
appearance might mean for their promotion chances? I think now they | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
can put the cap to bed. It is the big occasion at the end of the | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
season. Now they have got to concentrate... Let's hear from Mixu | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
Paatelainen. There is never an easy way to lose a | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
cup semifinal but that is almost the toughest way. Yes, it is, especially | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
the way we performed. I thought we were by far the better team. In the | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
first half, Hibernian started the game really well. But after that, | :57:26. | :57:33. | |
once we got our composure, we kept the ball and took good care of it. | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
We duly controlled the game and we created three fantastic | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
opportunities. But unfortunately, that has been the story of the | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
season. We have passed the ball well, we have created loads of | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
clear-cut chances, but we haven't taken them. We simply need to put | :57:55. | :58:03. | |
those chances away. It is almost a match that sums up United's season. | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
Plenty of effort but no reward. We have dominated matches like today | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
and created wonderful chances to score and win the match but if you | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
don't take them, and opponent might punish you. It is always a lottery | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
in the penalties. But I can't fully in the penalties. But I can't fully | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
-- full the boys' effort today. Fantastic. Excellent. The fans | :58:31. | :58:38. | |
turned up in good numbers and with really vocal out there. How | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
difficult will it be to bounce back from that? I don't think it will be | :58:42. | :58:44. | |
difficult. The boys realise the from that? I don't think it will be | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
challenge we have a head of us. Not easy. We are up against it but we're | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
not dead by any means. We will keep fighting and make sure that once the | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
league action starts again, we are up for it. It has been a season of | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
despair for Dundee United and that does not go away today. Beaten in | :59:04. | :59:06. | |
the penalty shoot out. Is it truly mission impossible? They | :59:07. | :59:16. | |
are eight points adrift with five games to go. I would think it is | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
Mission impossible. I think today is the end of this season. Last week | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
they were away, they were relegated with a performance in that defeat. | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
Today was something to fight on for for the big showpiece. They are out | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
now, they have got games against Hamilton and Dundee to come. | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
Difficult games. You can't see them scraping eight points back on till | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
mana at this point in time. For Hibs, it is their second cup final | :59:44. | :59:46. | |
of the season. They lost to Ross County. What imprecations does that | :59:47. | :59:53. | |
cup final appearance have for their chances of getting back to the | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
Premiership? It could go either way for them. It would give them a | :59:58. | :00:03. | |
massive lift. But when you win games of football, if you are in a cup | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
final, you feel good. At this point in time, Hibs have got two cup | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
finals. Celtic and Rangers in the other semifinal. They can still get | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
promoted as well. It could be one of the great seasons but they could | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
still be a stinker as well. I have no idea how it is going to go but | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
they need to get stronger at the end of games. Hibs have got made sure | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
they have a season they can enjoy. Thank you. That brings us to the end | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
of our coverage of the first of the Scottish Cup semifinals and most of | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
the drama was in place in that penalty shoot out. For two hours | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
they tried to get the edge, these two, goalless it was after Jason | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Cummings missed a penalty in the first half. What a match Conrad | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Logan had. Defying United time and time again and that continued into | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
the penalty shoot out. Two important saves from him. And Jason Cummings | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
scored in the shoot out to take Hibs through to play Rangers or Celtic in | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
the Scottish Cup final. Talking of that match, you will hear it live on | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
BBC Radio 1 Scotland tomorrow. And highlights tomorrow evening. 10:30pm | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
tomorrow night on BBC One Scotland. As for today, the results from | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
4:30pm onwards. Hibs are on to the Scottish Cup final. We switch from | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
football to snooker. The World Championships getting underway today | :01:50. | :01:51. |