Hibs injury crisis: Who's sidelined, for how long, and how could it affect the season?

Illness, injuries, and suspension means manager Shaun Maloney will have to ask a lot of his remaining players, while crossing his fingers that there are no further casualties.

As things stand Hibs are without one goalkeeper, four defenders, two midfielders, two widemen, and two forwards.

Rocky Bushiri is suspended while Chris Mueller and James Scott are set to miss out through illness. Matt Macey sustained an injury in the goalless draw with Celtic that ruled him out of the midweek trip to Dundee while Kevin Nisbet is out long term with knee ligament damage.

Kyle Magennis was on his way back from a troublesome groin problem but picked up another knock in training while captain Paul Hanlon remains sidelined with a heel issue. Defensive colleague Paul McGinn lasted just 12 minutes of the 2-0 defeat by Rangers last month after appearing to suffer a recurrence of the injury he sustained in the 3-2 home defeat by Livingston in January.

Demi Mitchell hasn’t played since he was forced off in the 3-1 Scottish Cup win against Arbroath but is hopeful of returning sooner rather than later.

January signing Harry Clarke is still nursing a hamstring injury while Joe Newell is progressing as he looks to recover from the injury he suffered during the goalless Edinburgh derby at the start of February.

Nisbet loss has left Hibs short on options in attack with just Christian Doidge and Elias Melkersen as recognised centre-forwards in the first-team squad.

It could be argued that Hibs have been short in attack since Paul Heckingbottom’s time at the club. The team was perhaps fortunate last season that Martin Boyle, Doidge, and Nisbet didn’t suffer injury and when one was out of form the other two were still firing on all cylinders.

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