Hearts & Hibs brace for 'all or nothing' semi-final
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6-second readHearts and Hibernian are braced for a winner-takes-all League Cup semi-final. But the Edinburgh rivals arrive at Hampden in very different moods.
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On Sunday, fans of Hearts and Hibernian will make the same journey to Hampden but the Edinburgh rivals have been on different paths so far this season.
Hearts sold out their initial allocation for the Premier Sports Cup semi-final in three days, then snapped up a second wave to take their numbers over 23,000.
That a few seats will be empty at the other end of the national stadium signals a degree of trepidation among followers of Hibs. Still, more than 18,000 will be there to cheer on the team sitting second bottom of the Premiership, having taken a mere two points from their past eight outings.
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