Christian Doidge insists he’s up for the problem of fixing Hibs goalscoring woes within the absence of crocked Kevin Nisbet.
The Welsh hitman hasn’t netted since August in a season which has been blighted by damage and covid points.
However he was thrown in for Wednesday’s goalless draw at Dundee - the Hibees’ seventh clean of their final 9 league video games - and is prone to preserve the place for Saturday’s dwelling conflict with St Johnstone.
Nisbet has been dominated out for the remainder of the season after damaging knee ligaments in Sunday’s goalless draw with Celtic.
And Doidge stated: “I’m gutted for Kevin, he’s an enormous participant for us.
“He has been nice since he got here in so it's actually disappointing for him however I'm certain he's going to return again stronger.
“I’ll be getting just a few extra minutes now so hopefully I can lead the road for the lads.
“We've to maintain creating probabilities and hope that us entrance lads rating some targets.
“We're doing the correct issues in the mean time, we're holding it tight on the again so it's now simply right down to the entrance lads to create some extra probabilities and put the ball at the back of the online."
Hibs sit fifth within the Premiership ’s closely congested race for Europe after the midweek draw at Dens which noticed them play the final 32 minutes with 10 males after Rocky Bushiri was purple carded.
Whereas Doidge accepts Shaun Maloney ’s facet must be higher in entrance of objective he insists a 3rd consecutive clear sheet provides hope that they will seize a Euro spot come Could.
He advised HibsTV: “We really feel we should always have gained the sport.
“Clearly we made it a bit more durable with Rocky getting despatched off. However we nonetheless bought in good positions to go and win the sport. In the direction of the top we needed to defend properly and battle and the lads did that.
“We actually wished to return right here and win immediately. I felt within the first half we dominated the ball and bought ourselves in good positions. Within the second half we created just a few half respectable probabilities that on one other day we'd’ve scored.
“We confirmed once more how good we're at defending. Taking place to 10 males is all the time tough particularly away from dwelling and the boys confirmed nice battle to dig in.”