Hughes bemoans two points dropped

Merouane Zemmama opened the scoring in the 27th minute as Hibs gained a tangible reward for outplaying United in the first half.The Easter Road outfit, however, failed to convert their dominance into further goals as United managed to get into the break with a chance of dragging themselves back into the encounter.And that's exactly what happened as Andy Webster notched a 72nd-minute equaliser with the aid of a deflection to rescue a point for Craig Levein's side.Hughes was disappointed Hibs were only able to take a point from the clash.He said: "In the first half and the second half apart from the first 15 and 20 minutes when it was all Dundee United, I thought we did enough to win it."We even had Derek's chance in the second half that he missed."Apart from Graham Stack picking the ball out of the net, he didn't have any real saves."I thought we should have wrapped it up in the first half but I can't ask anymore from the boys."I have chopped and changed things since I have been here but I thought playing with the four attacking boys worked a treat in the first half."We sat back a bit in the second half and invited them on to us. You don't always get what your deserve in football."United manager Levein, whose side were reduced to 10 men two minutes from the end of the match after Prince Buaben was shown a red card following an off the ball altercation with Anthony Stokes, revealed he had to subject his players to the hairdryer treatment at half-time following a woeful first half display.He said: "Poor is not the word for how bad we were in the first half. In the three years I have been at the club, I can count on one hand how many times I have had to raise my voice."I can't believe how bad we were in the first half. It was more than concerning, we couldn't pass the ball, we didn't tackle and we didn't win the second ball."It wasn't about personnel, it was more about the attitude of the personnel. When passes go astray that's them not concentrating but a kick up the back side can change that."The pleasing thing was the attitude we showed right from kick off after the break, we were on the front foot."

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