Hibs were due some luck - Hughes

07 March 2010 13:22
A trademark Derek Riordan strike ended Hibs' five-match winless run and shot them back up to third place ahead of Dundee United's game against Hearts on Sunday.[LNB]Killie boss Jimmy Calderwood was unhappy with the award of the 76th-minute free-kick, given after James Fowler was adjudged to have brought down substitute Danny Galbraith.[LNB]But Hughes said: "Some of it goes for you, some of it goes against you. In the last couple of weeks, plenty has gone against us.[LNB]"If we didn't get the free-kick you wouldn't have seen that wonderful goal."[LNB]Hughes also pointed to incidents during today's game, which included losing Sol Bamba and Alan Gow to injury and seeing Abdessalam Benjelloun miss a penalty.[LNB]"Lady Luck has deserted us a little bit over the last couple of weeks," he said. "In fact, it's been a hard couple of weeks for the whole club with the stand, one or two deaths.[LNB]"You go into that game and Gowser comes off with a hamstring problem, big Sol comes off with a shoulder problem and then you miss the penalty kick and it just disrupts you a little bit."[LNB]Hughes fears Gow may be out for up to month and revealed midfielder Merouane Zemmama had also tweaked a hamstring on Thursday.[LNB]"We need all hands on deck," he said.[LNB]Despite the setbacks, Hughes was pleased with the overall outcome.[LNB]"It's nice to get back to winning ways and the way we scored the goal, it's fitting to win any football match," he said.[LNB]"I'm delighted where we are, we're always in there fighting for that third spot, which will bring European football."[LNB]Calderwood claimed his side had been hard done by for the second straight game after they conceded a controversial winner at Motherwell last Saturday.[LNB]"That's the second week in a row it's led to a goal," he said. "It was a wonderful strike but the lads are saying it wasn't a free-kick."[LNB]But the Killie boss had no complaints with the penalty award, given after makeshift centre-half Manuel Pascali bundled into Benjelloun.[LNB]"[It was] stupid of Pascali," he said, before hailing debutant goalkeeper Lee Robinson, who replaced the injured Cameron Bell in the early stages.[LNB]"The keeper's made a great save. He made a couple of great saves, to be honest, to keep us in it. We thought we'd weathered the storm and then they go 1-0 ahead with a goal fit to win any game."[LNB]Calderwood is confident Bell will be fit for Tuesday's match with Rangers - "He's got a big lump on his head," - but is less certain about the involvement of Kevin Kyle, who was left out today with a groin injury and because he played in a trial match for Russian club Spartak Nalchik in Turkey on Thursday.[LNB]Kyle travelled for the friendly without telling Calderwood, who thought the striker had decided not to go.[LNB]"Kevin thought it was too early to wake me up, he says," added Calderwood, who does not believe any transfer will now happen.[LNB]"His words to me were he realises what he's got in Scotland - or Britain."[LNB]Benjelloun blamed his penalty miss on the "horrendous" Easter Road pitch and on the fact the referee would not let him catch his breath before stepping up.[LNB]But despite also branding his club's playing surface as "amateur", the Moroccan will not give up spot-kick duties, adding: "Even on that pitch."[LNB][LNB]

Source: Team_Talk