Lee Johnson hailed his Hibs players for burying their Escaldes nightmare with a six-goal supershow at Easter Road. A quickfire double from Martin Boyle - back after nine months out with an ACL injury - paved the way for a 6-1 second leg victory.
Josh Campbell also helped himself to a double while Christian Doidge and Elie Youan also got in on the act. The only concern for Johnson was losing two keepers to injury - with David Marshall injured in the warm up and his replacement Jojo Wollacott coming off with a thigh problem after only 18 minutes.
That meant untried Max Boruc was throw on for a debut. But Johnson said: “It was excellent. The boys went in with an A Grade attitude, we broke their spirit early which was key, and just had every man at it.
It was a difficult game last week, we’ve taken a lot of stick but we never lost our belief and that showed in our performance. “There was no edginess, the players were all confident, we played our way.