Marked for Danil Baklanov
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Charleston in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hibernians this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Matthew Ellul, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Crisis
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 24 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Charleston was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Hamrun Spartans, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
5.61 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.65 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Market21 Sep 2026
The name of Sunday Akinbule keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hibernians say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mailson Lima was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Maecky Ngombo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Pedrão
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Hibernians?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Naxxar Lions? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Maecky Ngombo
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Hibernians has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jurgen Degabriele’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.