Lee Johnson applauds Hibs 'mosh pit' as he makes honest red card admission after St Johnstone win

Lee Johnson hailed his last-ditch heroes and reckons it shows that Hibs aren’t a team or club in crisis.

The new manager got off to winning ways in the Premiership thanks to sub Josh Campbell’s last-minute winner at Perth - much to the delight of the 3,000 plus Hibees support. The pressure had been on Hibs after they failed to get through their Premier Sports Cup group and their exit was sealed after an administrative blunder saw them kicked out for fielding the suspended Rocky Bushiri.

A proud Johnson said: “We’ve got to go through a lot. We’re a brand new team, a brand new manager, new coaching staff. We’ve got to build resilience up. It was nice at the end, it was like a little mosh pit at the end. Everybody was buzzing, the fans were buzzing. They stuck with us which was good. We’ve never been in as bad a place as has been portrayed. We’ve had a strong belief in what we’re doing we’re just frustrated we couldn’t fast track it a little bit quicker because of unforeseen circumstances.

“It was a good game, it was a tough game. You’d expect that on the opening weekend of the season. We had complete control in the first half without maybe executing the final pass. But I think in the end, we wore them down, created space and made them a little bit leggy with our athleticism.”

The spotlight was on both teams after their miserable cup campaign but in terms of the first half there was very little, in an attacking-sense, to light this game up. Elias Melkersen was dangerous on the right hand side and his early run and cross was half-cleared before Nohan Kenneh fired over.

Both sides were well-organised and hard to break down and both managers would have been pleased from a defensive perspective, although they would have