Milligan

[Unseen work]

Got to admit I have been very critical of him this season but thought he was one of our best players today and had excellent distribution from defence.

Hanlon needs dropped as he has been brutal all season and seems to fancy himself more as a midfielder than a defender.

Defence has looked a joke when he’s been in it .

[Diclonius]

MOTM for me.

[IberianHibernian]

My MOTM too .

[FifeHibs]

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My MOTM too .

He was horrific

[SquashedFrogg]

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He was horrific

Fifers eh. Damn bridge.

[Hiber-nation]

Milligan gave away a few daft fouls but was very good apart from that. Played some lovely passes.

[tamig]

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He was horrific

How was he horrific? What did he do wrong today?

[bordergreen]

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MOTM for me.

Yep!

[SMAXXA]

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Got to admit I have been very critical of him this season but thought he was one of our best players today and had excellent distribution from defence.

Hanlon needs dropped as he has been brutal all season and seems to fancy himself more as a midfielder than a defender.

Defence has looked a joke when he’s been in it .

Agree with that to be honest he did fine today and thought Hanlon wasn’t great as was Stevenson pretty poor but it’s his first game back didn’t look to have the same energy which may be expected due to injury. Only guess with Hanlon is he’s been injured also had a kid recently and that can really take it out you aswell but defo don’t think he’s been at the levels he can be and I’m sure he would find hard to disagree. Hope he rediscoveres his top form as i like him and want him in the team when at it

[tamig]

I haven’t rated him at centre-half but thought he was excellent today. He looked far better playing the free role rather than being a stopper. He used the ball well and I’m not sure if his previous poor - imo - form at the back was maybe down to him playing in a three with Efe who we know is a proper footballing CH. Very impressive today.

[BullsCloseHibs]

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Got to admit I have been very critical of him this season but thought he was one of our best players today and had excellent distribution from defence.

Hanlon needs dropped as he has been brutal all season and seems to fancy himself more as a midfielder than a defender.

Defence has looked a joke when he’s been in it .

Sums us up this season. No consistency, no spine, missing structure.
Hate to admit it but that's what Hearts do well. They rely on the spine players, Berra, Souter etc. We rely on players who might be dropped from one week to the next because of poor form. And that's the difference.

[we are hibs]

I thought he was poor. Takes too many touches on the ball before passing it.

[Smartie]

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I thought he was poor. Takes too many touches on the ball before passing it.

I thought he was excellent.

Not afraid to take a couple of touches until a decent passing opportunity opened up for him rather than just shell it up the park early and have it come back at him.

[jeffers]

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I thought he was poor. Takes too many touches on the ball before passing it.

Glad I’m not the only one though maybe wouldn’t go as far as poor just thought he added very little and the game slowed down most times he had the ball. The majority of his passes were to another of the centre backs which came after he took a number of touches. I expect far more from a marquee signing who is captain of his country. I’d have hooked him at half time for another midfielder.

[Smartie]

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Glad I’m not the only one though maybe wouldn’t go as far as poor just thought he added very little and the game slowed down most times he had the ball. The majority of his passes were to another of the centre backs which came after he took a number of touches. I expect far more from a marquee signing who is captain of his country. I’d have hooked him at half time for another midfielder.

I don't remember many times when he spurned a chance to pass to someone in an advanced position to just give it to another defender.

He had his head up at all times and was trying to make it happen, our movement was often terrible and Aberdeen pressed us well.

If he didn't do what he did he'd just be lumping it up the park. We don't have the players to play hoofball.

[jeffers]

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I don't remember many times when he spurned a chance to pass to someone in an advanced position to just give it to another defender.

He had his head up at all times and was trying to make it happen, our movement was often terrible and Aberdeen pressed us well.

If he didn't do what he did he'd just be lumping it up the park. We don't have the players to play hoofball.

He was slightly better in the second half but the first half in particular he passed it sideways too often, slowed it down and offered very little in my opinion.

You are correct he didn’t lump it up the park, he took a number of touches, passed it to either DM or PH for them to do so. I do agree though re our movement and Aberdeen’s pressing.

[Jones28]

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I thought he was poor. Takes too many touches on the ball before passing it.

That makes a poor player does it? Pinging lovely through balls instead a first touch howf is world class however...

[Ozyhibby]

I thought he was ok today but no more than that. I would rather we played with 4 at the back and an extra man in midfield.
Three at the back works well if you have proper wing backs but we have full backs so it just ends up with 5 at the back. When you have 5 at the back it’s easy for Milligan to get time on the ball.


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[Wigson13]

With no more Effy unfortunately we need someone else who can carry the ball up the park, seems that Milligan is being tested as that player. Thought he had a fairly good game today and the defence looked pretty stable apart from the usual unforced errors!

[basehibby]

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I thought he was ok today but no more than that. I would rather we played with 4 at the back and an extra man in midfield.
Three at the back works well if you have proper wing backs but we have full backs so it just ends up with 5 at the back. When you have 5 at the back it’s easy for Milligan to get time on the ball.


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We WERE playing 4 at the back - Milligan was in midfield the whole match and a had a good game.

NB - just noticed OzyHibby's post I replied to was from weeks ago after we played Aberdeen - so my comment re 4 at the back is not relevant to his post.

FWIW I thought Milligan also had a decent performance against the Dons - he has been improving this year I think - perhaps due to more consistent selection.

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[Tyler Durden]

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We had 4 at the back all game

The only tactical change came when we moved from a diamond in the second half to a three across the middle with Milligan sitting behind them deeper in front of the back 4

Ozy’s quote there was from the Aberdeen game where Milligan played in a back 3.

We didn’t play a diamond at any point yesterday though, it was a flatter 4-4-2 IMO.

[bigwheel]

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Ozy’s quote there was from the Aberdeen game where Milligan played in a back 3.

We didn’t play a diamond at any point yesterday though, it was a flatter 4-4-2 IMO.

Ok. Didn’t realise that.

We certaintly moved to
Milligan sitting behind them once Omeonga came
In

[Tyler Durden]

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Ok. Didn’t realise that.

We certaintly moved to
Milligan sitting behind them once Omeonga came
In

Yeah he did seem to sit deeper, maybe manager instructions or maybe just human nature. Did seem we sat off a bit too much at times but probably a tactic as we had great chances on the break. The one that Shaw made a mess of, in particular.

[FilipinoHibs]

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Ozy’s quote there was from the Aberdeen game where Milligan played in a back 3.

We didn’t play a diamond at any point yesterday though, it was a flatter 4-4-2 IMO.

Funny the manager described our formation as a diamond in post match interval.

[Tyler Durden]

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Funny the manager described our formation as a diamond in post match interval.

Hmm, was surprised by that so just watched his interview with Cliff.

He talks about playing against Hamilton’s diamond. How we got a 2 vs 1 in the build up to our opening goal against their diamond. Also talks about playing Horgan wide which reinforces the formation we played - a flat 4-4-2.

[truehibernian]

Only thing I saw him do was deliver two terrific crossfield passes to Lewy second half - rest of the game he fouled needlessly, passes square too often and was hesitant - not a good player at all.

[hibee_girl]

He was great today I thought, always organising the team from the back or trying to at least!

[hibsbollah]

I thought he improved second half, and two crossfield balls in particular were very accurate and should have led to more, but noone out there today really had much to shout about. The suspicion is Aberdeen just have slightly better players than us and will probably continue to do so.

[Smartie]

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I thought he improved second half, and two crossfield balls in particular were very accurate and should have led to more, but noone out there today really had much to shout about. The suspicion is Aberdeen just have slightly better players than us and will probably continue to do so.

I thought that their defence in particular was just a lot better than ours.

Our goal was probably quite cheap from their point of view but you didn't get a feeling we'd be allowed another one. They are solid and very hard to break down and whilst they aren't particularly creative or attractive, they have various threats throughout their team.