Positive Hibs injury news: Updates on Demetri Mitchell, Paul Hanlon, Kyle Magennis, Kevin Nisbet and Momodou Bojang

Easter Road boss Lee Johnson will be without Demetri Mitchell, Paul Hanlon, Kyle Magennis and Kevin Nisbet again this weekend, but he is hoping that he will be able to start reintroducing at least one or two of them to first team training relatively soon.

With no new injuries to add to the sicklist after the first two competitive games of the season, the Hibs manager is focusing on the good news that he will have one newcomer to add to the squad for the trip to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Premier Sports Cup on Sunday, now that Momodou Bojang has been added to the pack, and he says he expects those numbers to swell in the coming weeks as old faces return to full fitness.

"I feel that we're in a good place with the four injured players,” said Johnson. “It's all best-case scenario; there haven't been many set-backs.

"Demetri's out and moving about and looks like he's moving well; Paul Hanlon is the same and it looks like we'll be able to integrate them into one or two parts of the sessions early next week.

"Kevin has a different timeline but is in a really good place as well. Kyle Magennis is also in a good place, probably slightly behind the first two in terms of the chronological order of them coming back, but in a very good place nonetheless.

"In my mind, although they're in the squad, they will be like new signings when they're back and we've got an element of versatility in them as well.

"The fact that we haven't had any new injuries is really positive. I think a sign of the work we've done is that touch wood we haven't had any muscle injuries.

"You can't really do a lot about the contact ones but any muscle injuries will end up being a black-box thinking that we can look back and review where we got it wrong.

"I'm very