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| Jim Jefferies | <-auth | None | auth-> | Hugh Dallas |
| [M Paatelainen 43] ;[M Paatelainen 45] ;[D Zitelli 51] ;[M Paatelainen 74] ;[J O'Neil 81] ;[R Latapy 84] | ||||
| 7 | of 007 | Andy Kirk 5 ;Colin Cameron 90 | L SPL | A |
WHAT A KNEES- UPMighty Mixu is hat-trick hero for Hibees HIBERNIAN 6 HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 2 By Bill Leckie at Easter Road BraggingFor the next twenty minutes it was the Jambos who partied while the Hibees fretted and moaned and groaned. Hearts had put them selves in a great postion to turn the form book upside down and win bragging rights around the capital for weeks to come. Jefferies wasn't fooled. He could see the cracks in his side dispite the score and as passes went astray and clearences dropped to oppostion feet, he burst to the touchline again and again to scream at the culprits. To many easy balls were misplaced, too many times they turned back the way instead of springing forward, far too often they failed to clear their lines. It was lucky for them in the mid-spell of the first half that Hibs were as impotent as I've seen them, with Latapy and Zitelli and O'Neil failing to link up and take advantage of mistakes. More worrying for Jefferies was that as time ticked on, though, was how deep his men were starting to sit. At Ibrox a few Sundays back they'd camped on their own 18-yard line and paid the penalty. Now the warning signs were there again. On 21 minutes, Anti Niemi leapt to tip over Paatelainen's left foot shot from Latapy's first telling pass, then pushed Uli Laursen's header from the corner for another. From Zitelli's second vicious delievery, Paatelainen got in front of Pressley to head home from point-blank range - but as Hibs celebrated, the Jambo fans realised with relief that Hugh Dallas had spotted a tug on the defender. MadnessStill the incident lifted Hibs and lanky Danish wing-back Laursen cut inside Thomas Flogel to blast a shot which Niemi's chest and rebounded to Stuart Lovell, who could only fire over from 12 yards. Hearts had barely been out of their own half for 20 odd minutes, but a moment of madness allmost let them in. Gary Smith dawdled on the corner of his own box, Durie robbed him and cut inside and might have squared for Kirk instead of shooting into Colgan's hands. It was a let off Hibs were to use to full effect. Latapy raced to the other end, crossed right footed, O'Neil distracted the defence with a darting run and there was Mixu Paatelainen arriving late to chest down and hammer high past Niemi before summersaulting with delight. Oh the touchline, Jefferies shook his head and knew it had been coming. What was coming next was his worst nightmare. Within 90 seconds, Fulton had headed away desperately from Paatelainen for a corner., Pressley headed Zitelli's kick high into the air and as the Hearts defence ball-watched, the big Finn bundled it over the line. I've rarely known an atmosphere change so quickly or so dramatically. Hibs came off at half time bouncing. Hearts were allmost on their knees. Six minutes into the start of the second half they were on their backs. The running and closing down of the early minutes were a distant memory as Latapy got time and space to pick his pas for Zitelli, who strolled between Pressley and James to fire a third. StretchNow every touch was greeted with oles', Hearts taunted with cries of "Your not very good". James had to stretch a leg to turn Zitelli's cross away from Paatelainen, Laursen tormented Flogel on the left, Lovell murdered Fulton on tright. Niemi made fine stops from O'Neil, Zitelli and Lovell, Latapy's control let him down when clean through on to the same player's lovely chip. Every cross spelled panic. And Hearts looked as ragged as beggar's jumper as Latapy fed O'Neil, whose low cross was turned in for Paatelainen's hat-trick 16 minutes from time. O'Neil then found time and space in a crowded box to dig a corner out from his own feet and smash a fifth. The sixth was simply supreme- Latapy feeding Paatelainen, the striker clipping a return ball behind Fulton and the play-maker volleying a blinder beyond Niemi. Cameron's late poke past Colgan meant nothing. As the sarcasm rained down him, he probably wished he hadn't bothered. And, yes you read that correctly at the start. There really were no bookings. If that can happen in one of these games, maybe Hibs can win the league after all. Written by Bill Leckie, copyright of The Sun newspaper. |
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