Martin Boyle's season-ending injury is a huge blow for Hibs - but Kevin Nisbet can help ease the pain.
The Australian international returned to the club in August after an eight-month stint in Saudi Arabia and immediately reinstated himself as their talisman. An ACL injury though means he's missed the World Cup and will also be out of action for the rest of this term, Lee Johnson's men eighth in the Premiership ahead of starting their season again versus Rangers.
Valerio Zuddas - a first-teach coach during the Shaun Maloney tenure last season - was tasked with helping Hibs deal with Boyle's departure for Al-Faisaly and that was only made tougher when Kevin Nisbet picked up a long-term knee injury in February. Speaking to Record Sport , he insists that his former club had to change their play book when the 29-year-old departed: "With Martin, you have the possible to penetrate in the final third. It's more direct and not having Martin, you have to have positional play, which is more line of passes or making an overload on one side to try to go over the defensive line.
