Morton manager Jim Duffy called for the focus to be on his men last night after they badly undermined Hibs’ Championship title bid at Easter Road.
“It’s the first time Hibs have been beaten at home (in the league) for nearly a year so to do it so comprehensively says a lot about us and hopefully we get the credit and it’s not about Hibs,” he said.
“They’re in as good a form as they’ve been in for a long time so for us to come here and win three nothing is a phenomenal result.”
That said Duffy was not prepared to go so far as to claim his team were now strong play-off contenders after moving to within a point of fourth placed Raith Roivers.
“It’s always great to be up that end of the table, but the amount of games we’ve got coming up and how stretched we are as a squad I’m just delighted we got the three points tonight,” he said.
“We’ve not got too much time to recover until Saturday and Conor (Pepper) got injured tonight and it looks as if he’s going to have to go to hospital with a new injury, but overall I can’t be anything less than delighted.”
While his Hibs counterpart Alan Stubbs expressed disappointment at the nature of the goals his team conceded he readily acknowledged that Morton had fully deserved their win.
“When you’re on top you’ve got to take your chances and we’ve had a couple of good ones. We’ve then given away two poor goals, but all credit to Morton. I don’t want to stand here and say ‘oh we’ve played poorly.’ When Morton have had their chances they’ve taken them and I’ve got no complaints from that,” he said.
As to whether it was a result that effectively ended Hibs’ title bid he was philosophical.
“It might be… it might not be,” Stubbs acknowledged.
“We’ve been eight points behind before and we managed to claw it back, but obviously with less games to go it does make it harder.
“It’s a blip for us but I can’t criticise the players too much because I’ve not been in this position too often this season.”
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