Next up - Hibs in the cup

[jwok]

Motherwell and Hibs meet on Sunday lunchtime at Fir Park. The prize for the winner is a place in the Scottish Cup semi-finals. Who’s on the way to Hampden? LINK

[Well below the Equator]

Given the form of both teams, what about another 6-6 (although that is more likely the score on penalties after 0-0 in regulation!). We need the Ibrox second half form, but who on earth can predict when they will deliver that!!

[Handsome_Devil]

Bizarrely I think playing a 'better' team will help us. This season we have never been cut out to have the ball and play against a side happy to concede possession, sit deep and break etc. Our best games have nearly always been end-to-end stuff or those where the other side have been willing to try to get the ball and play it.

Will that be enough? Absolutely no idea. It certainly wouldn't be a massive surprise if we won but while Hibs are obviously struggling themselves, they are at least capable of keeping a clean sheet - we've kept one in the last 13 (against them, ironically enough) which when you consider Kelly is back in form is really a shocking indictment of our defence. So it would seem we're more likely to throw the game to them than they are to us.

[dasdeid]

Play KVV as No9 and FFS play the ball to his feet

[Handsome_Devil]

Play KVV as No9 and FFS play the ball to his feet

Crazy idea, might just work.

[LawSteelman]

No outcome will be a surprise to me tomorrow. It could be 0-0, it could be 3-3, we might scrape it, they might scrape it, we might win by a couple, they might win by a couple. Or we could lose on penalties again.

Actually if we were to win on penalties then that would be a shock!

I expect the semi final line up to be Hearts, Celtic, ourselves/Hibs and Dundee, who I have a weird feeling will beat Rangers tomorrow.

[Handsome_Devil]

If I was sticking a fiver on the semi-finalists it would be the OF, St Mirren and us. I think. I'd prefer Hearts to win mind.

I agree Rangers will have an almighty scare tomorrow between the European games but Dundee are so chronic they won't take advantage. If the ties were the other way round, United would beat Rangers. With no European distraction and a treble there for the taking I'd be surprised if Celtic slip up at Tannadice.

[LawSteelman]

I don’t see St.Mirren winning at Tynecastle tonight. Indeed I think the eventual winner of the competition will either be Celtic or Hearts, as Hearts are the only side left in the competition that I would give a chance of beating Celtic in a one off game.

[Handsome_Devil]

Logically sure, I just have a sneaky feeling Robinson will have them sorted and up for it while Hearts will be fielding a rather random team - they had 11 out or struggling this week, if you consider Neilson more trustworthy on these matters than Alexander.

Agree on Hearts v Celtic, it's why I want them to win. The path which lifts our cup-winning chances from nil to one in a huge number is one of the OF slip up in Dundee, we beat the Dundee side who won, Hearts beat the OF in the semi and we mug a complacent/injury/corona Hearts in the final. Wouldn't put a fiver on it mind...

[LawSteelman]

If the game was in Paisley I’d give St.Mirren more of a chance but under the lights at Tynecastle with the big home crowd I can’t see past Hearts. Them missing players might be a bit of a leveller but even if it were to go to penalties Hearts would win in that scenario. They have that aforementioned ‘big team mentality’ that we lack in that scenario.