Preview Hibernian
Sunday, 22nd Apr 2007Hibs have gone ten Scottish Cup Semi Finals without a win.
How They Reached the Semi Final
| DUNFERMLINE | HIBERNIAN | |||
| Round 3 | Rangers (H) | 3-2 | Aberdeen (A) | 2-2 |
| Aberdeen (H) | 4-1 | |||
| Round 4 | Hearts (H) | 1-0 | Gretna (H) | |
| Round 5 | Partick Thistle (H) | 2-0 | Queen of the South (A) | |
| Semi Final | Hibernian (N) | 0-0 | Dunfermline (N) | |
Dunfermline Athletic have only reached the last four in the Scottish Cup on six previous occasions. Tuesday`s meeting with Hibs at Hampden will be the Pars eleventh Semi Final match. Four of these have been replays and this is only the fourth to be played at Hampden.
Previous Scottish Cup Semi Finals
| DATE | OPPOSITION | SCORE | VENUE | |
| 01/04/61 | St Mirren | 0-0 | D | Tynecastle |
| 05/04/61 | St Mirren | 1-0 | W | Tynecastle |
| 28/03/64 | Rangers | 0-1 | L | Hampden |
| 27/03/65 | Hibernian | 2-0 | W | Tynecastle |
| 26/03/66 | Celtic | 0-2 | L | Ibrox |
| 30/03/68 | St Johnstone | 1-1 | D | Tynecastle |
| 03/04/68 | St Johnstone | 2-1 aet | W | Tynecastle |
| 10/04/04 | Inverness Caley Thistle | 1-1 | D | Hampden |
| 20/04/04 | Inverness Caley Thistle | 3-2 | W | Pittodrie |
| 15/04/07 | Hibernian | 0-0 | D | Hampden |
Scottish Cup Record against Hibs
| P | W | D | L | F | A |
| 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 37 |
The Pars have come through the ten previous pairings only twice but they did win the last time they were drawn against each other in 2003. Dunfermline also won their only previous semi final tie in 1965.
| Hibernian | 0-2 | Dunfermline | 06-03-2003 |
| Dunfermline | 1-1 | Hibernian | 22-02-2003 |
| Hibernian | 4-1 | Dunfermline | 29-01-2000 |
| Hibernian | 2-0 | Dunfermline | 31-01-1987 |
| Hibernian | 2-0 | Dunfermline | 26-01-1986 |
| Dunfermline | 1-2 | Hibernian | 28-01-1981 |
| Hibernian | 1-1 | Dunfermline | 24-01-1981 |
| Hibernian | 2-0 | Dunfermline | 12-02-1979 |
| Dunfermline | 1-1 | Hibernian | 28-01-1979 |
| Hibernian | 3-2 | Dunfermline | 24-01-1976 |
| Dunfermline | 2-0 | Hibernian | 27-03-1965 |
| Dunfermline | 0-4 | Hibernian | 03-03-1928 |
| Hibernian | 11-1 | Dunfermline | 26-10-1889 |
| Dunfermline | 4-4 | Hibernian | 19-10-1889 |
Recent Form
| Dunfermline | W Dundee United 1-0 |
D Hibernian 0-0 |
W Hibernian 1-0 |
L Motherwell 0-2 |
W Inverness CT 3-1 |
| Hibernian | D Aberdeen 2-2 |
D Dunfermline 0-0 |
L Dunfermline 0-1 |
D St Mirren 1-1 |
L Hearts 0-1 |
Last Time in the Semi Final
Dunfermline will be without Scott Wilson (suspended) and the cup tied pair Tam McManus and Stephen Glass. Hibs made eight changes for their match at Pittodrie on Saturday so not much can be taken from that, other than many players were rested.
DUNFERMLINE : Dorus de Vries; Greg Shields (c), Scott Wilson, Souleymane Bamba, Scott Muirhead; Jim O`Brien, Jamie McCunnie, Phil McGuire (Greg Ross HT), Gary Mason, Adam Hammill (Owen Morrison 81); Jim McIntyre (Mark Burchill 93)
SUBS: Roddy McKenzie (GK), Freddie Daquin.
YELLOW CARD: Shields (44), Wilson (77)
HIBERNIAN: Andrew McNeil (Simon Brown HT); Steven Whittaker Chris Hogg, Rob Jones (c), David Murphy; Scott Brown, Abdessalam Benjelloun (Damon Gray 90), Gulllaume Beuzelin, Lewis Stevenson, Steven Fletcher, Ivan Sproule
SUBS: Kevin McCann, Merouane Zemmama, Ross Chisholm
YELLOW CARD: Whittaker (51)
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