Hibs boss Shaun Maloney has hailed his battling stars for fighting back to beat Arbroath and avoiding a potential cup upset.
And he hopes Kevin Nisbet 's match-winning moment of magic will be a turning point for the previously misfiring Scotland striker.
Hibs went into the Scottish Cup clash with the Championship leaders in poor form and would have been fearing the worst when the home side struck first.
But Demetri Mitchell equalised before Kevin Nisbet fired them ahead and American hitman Chris Mueller made sure late on. It fired the Hibees into the quarter-finals and Maloney said: “ Arbroath are top of the league below. “You have to be very wary of these games and there’s a reason it’s on TV.
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