Craig Gordon was the Hampden hero as he helped hand Hearts a return ticket to the nationwide stadium with a flick of his wrist.
It's hardly a brand new trait for the Scotland and Jambos No.1.
The 39-year-old recurrently defies his age and gravity to make main saves for membership and nation.
Saturday was no exception as he produced when it mattered most to snuff out a possible semi-final comeback from Hibs.
The Easter Street facet had battled again to 2-1 and it seemed like Ryan Porteous had levelled.
Step up the skipper with a trademark throw of the arm to push the header on to a publish and collect on the second try.
Gordon admits he obtained fortunate the rebound fell into his grasp, a second that denied Hibs actual momentum of their bid to drag off a exceptional revival as Joe Newell walked 10 minutes later.
Gaffer Robbie Neilson reckons Gordon has already secured his place amongst Scotland’s finest goalies, an unique membership together with Jim Leighton and Andy Goram.
These watching at Hampden and on tv on Saturday would discover it onerous to argue.
Gordon stated: “It was an enormous one. It was an enormous second within the sport – and the season – to maintain them out at that exact level as a result of they have been on high.
“To maintain our lead intact was massively necessary at that stage as a result of they nonetheless had 11 males on the time.
“It might have been troublesome for us to get the momentum again within the sport if it had been 2-2.
“I used to be actually proud of it. I obtained a little bit little bit of luck when it got here again off the publish, it got here in direction of me and I managed to dive on the second ball.
“However I hopefully deserved that little bit of luck for the primary contact. It could actually at all times occur as a goalkeeper that you just make a save and also you don’t know the place it is going to rebound to. I managed to get that little little bit of luck and I used to be very joyful as a result of it was an enormous second.
“It was second for me however there was nonetheless a very long time to go within the sport.
“We needed to put in an excellent shift to get via ultimately.”
Hearts will now head again to Hampden to face Rangers on Could 21 for his or her third Scottish Cup Last within the final 4 years as they give the impression of being to go one step additional and win it.
Gordon is aware of his group will go in as underdogs however is assured they will chunk to upset the percentages.
He added: “It’s one other alternative to win a cup closing and raise a trophy.
“Hearts have put themselves on this place a lot of occasions lately and it’s one other nice probability for us.
“We've gamers who've witnessed the massive event during the last 4 or 5 years. The membership have been right here quite a bit and that may solely maintain us in good stead for a large sport.
“Underdogs can win soccer matches. We’ve seen that final week within the Champions League and also you see it each week in soccer that an underdog wins a soccer match.
“We all know we now have good gamers. We could be assured in our personal capacity and know we will trigger groups issues on any given day.”
There's the added bonus now that the Jambos know their continental marketing campaign will kick off within the Europa League.
The skipper, whose facet have already secured third spot within the league with a 16-point cushion, stated: “We aren't counting our chickens simply but.
“However we now have had season and we're in an excellent place. Now it’s about persevering with to win video games and holding in good type.”
Gordon was satisfied to see off Hibs, albeit he is aware of it might have been much more convincing had they taken their probabilities.
Stellar strikes from Ellis Simms and Stephen Kingsley despatched them two up with 21 minutes gone earlier than Chris Cadden obtained one again.
Gordon added: “I did really feel the tempo of the sport was excessive and that at all times makes for an thrilling sport with each groups chucking all the pieces at it.
“Even the primary half was finish to finish with each groups attacking and attempting to get targets.
“It was sport with a little bit of all the pieces.
“There have been nice high quality targets we scored and the build-up to the primary aim was nice too.
“If we had obtained one other aim within the first half, we might have dominated the second half.
“If we will add a wee little bit of metal that we confirmed right here, we're outfit who will give anybody issues. We are going to simply focus on ourselves as finest we will and check out to enter the ultimate on good type.”
Neilson hopes to have a few of his injured gamers again for the showpiece and Gordon is holding his fingers crossed Craig Halkett is one in every of them.
The defender was carried off 5 minutes after the break with what a severe knee harm following a sort out from James Scott.
Gordon stated: “We are going to discover out within the subsequent few days how he's but it surely didn’t look good on the time.
"Generally you simply get that feeling as a participant. It was not an excellent sort out. I don’t suppose by any means there was any intent to injure him but it surely was a crunching sort out.
“It appears like he’s obtained a sore one however we'll discover out within the coming days.”