It's All in the Balance ; Hughes Loves Playing Quartet of Enigmatic Strikers but Is Aware He Needs the Perfect Blend to Ensure That the Rest of Hibs Team Don't Suffer As a Result [Scot Region]
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JOHN HUGHES possesses a squad which contains not one but four mercurial forwards. Each is talented but also, in his own way, temperamental. How does the Hibernian manager pick his team and manage those four egos? Simple. He starts all of them.
The sight of Hibs' 4-2-4 formation threatening to overwhelm Dundee United at Easter Road a fortnight ago was a joy to behold.See the full content of this document
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It's All in the Balance ; Hughes Loves Playing Quartet of Enigmatic Strikers but Is Aware He Needs the Perfect Blend to Ensure That the Rest of Hibs Team Don't Suffer As a Result [Scot Region]
Hughes insists he is not naive enough to think he can get away with such a bold approach every week but he is prepared to try to shoehorn Derek Riordan, Anthony Stokes, Abdessalam Benjelloun and Merouane Zemmama into his starting line-up as often as possible.
Even then, the Hibs manager is loath to marginalise the proven SPL goalscoring threat of targetman Colin Nish, who was the odd one out against United...See the full content of this document
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