Alan Stubbs insists tie is far from over

Hibs’ Head Coach Alan Stubbs still believes that his team can still progress to the play-off final despite last night’s 2-0 defeat to Rangers at Ibrox although he concedes that scoring first on Saturday is vital.

Goals either side of half time secured Rangers win in front of over 40,000 supporters and after the game Stubbs told BBC Scotland: “It’s far from over, the tie’s far from over.

“Stating the obvious we’d like to score first if possible on Saturday and then we’ll see what a good game it could be.

“It’ll be an entertaining game, I’m sure it will be. We’ll come out and we’ll look to try and get that first goal if we can, whether that’s in the first 10, 20, 30 minutes, it’s still got the potential to go 120 minutes on Saturday.”

“We had a lot,(of corners) it’s probably the most we’ve had. The reason we’re 2-0 down is we should have done better with their goals.

“We had a few chances where, on another day, you’d like to think that we’d hit the target and make their keeper work.

“I thought we played some decent stuff. In the final third we probably just needed to take our time a bit more, sometimes it was a little bit rushed, one or two things just didn’t fall for us, but overall I can’t fault the way they played.”

Stubbs also hit out after Scott Allan was repeatedly subjected to objects being thrown at him from the Rangers supporters every time he took a corner.

“It could have been dealt with better but that’s not my problem, that’s Rangers. .If he had got hit with a coin, what would happen?

“They’re still throwing stuff on the pitch. But, sometimes you get people who do silly things.”