Hibs were due some luck - Hughes

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.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.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."If we didn't get the free-kick you wouldn't have seen that wonderful goal."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."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."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."Hughes fears Gow may be out for up to month and revealed midfielder Merouane Zemmama had also tweaked a hamstring on Thursday."We need all hands on deck," he said.Despite the setbacks, Hughes was pleased with the overall outcome."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."I'm delighted where we are, we're always in there fighting for that third spot, which will bring European football."Calderwood claimed his side had been hard done by for the second straight game after they conceded a controversial winner at Motherwell last Saturday."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."But the Killie boss had no complaints with the penalty award, given after makeshift centre-half Manuel Pascali bundled into Benjelloun."[It was] stupid of Pascali," he said, before hailing debutant goalkeeper Lee Robinson, who replaced the injured Cameron Bell in the early stages."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."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.Kyle travelled for the friendly without telling Calderwood, who thought the striker had decided not to go."Kevin thought it was too early to wake me up, he says," added Calderwood, who does not believe any transfer will now happen."His words to me were he realises what he's got in Scotland - or Britain."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.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."

Source: Team_Talk