RECAP St Johnstone 1-0 Hibs: Shaun Rooney first-half header wins Scottish Cup despite Matt Macey penalty save
It’s been a season like no other and the curtain will come down on the campaign this weekend and the final silverware of the season will be either taken back to Perth or Edinburgh after this afternoon’s showpiece event at Hampden.
Will it be worth the wait? The match has been rescheduled by two weeks due to delays during the year and the impact of covid is still being felt today with no fans in the ground for the second final in a row.
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Scottish Cup Final 2021
Key Events
- ST JOHNSTONE WIN THE SCOTTISH CUP 2021
- St Johnstone 1 Hibs 0 - (Rooney 32)
- Perth side make history becoming the FOURTH Scottish side to do the Cup double
80 - SUBSTITUTION St Johnstone
OFF - Glenn Middleton
ON - Michael O’Halleran
Saints trying to make the fresh changes to see the game out.
88 - PENALTY?
Martin Boyle goes down in the box, but Nick Walsh is quick to flash a yellow card at the Hibs winger who has been practically silent over the duration of the afternoon.
90 - Injury time
There will be five minutes added time. Can Hibs find an equaliser? Can Saints hang on?
FULL TIME
St Johnstone have won the Scottish Cup.
The Perth side have done the Scottish silverware double - adding the Scottish Cup to this season’s Betfred League Cup.
St Johnstone are the fourth club - ever - to do the cup double.
Both Old Firm clubs have done it - so too did Aberdeen in their hayday of the 1980s and early 1990s and now St Johnstone under Callum Davidson on his debut managerial season.
Full-time analysis
Patrick McPartlin reports from Hampden...
It was a case of deja vu all over again for Hibs at Hampden as they started brightly enough but didn’t take their chances, which was ultimately their undoing.
Shaun Rooney’s first-half goal turned out to be the winner, although Easter Road ‘keeper Matt Macey denied the Saints a more comfortable win as he saved Glenn Middleton’s penalty and blocked the follow-up.
Although Kevin Nisbet sent a shot wide early in the second half. Hibs were unable to carve out any clear-cut chances and when they did threaten, they found St Johnstone impenetrable. This was an unusually flat and timid performance from Hibs, who will be disappointed at the way they lost the final.
It wasn’t a classic encounter but it didn’t need to be for the Saints.
Securing third in the league was a great achievement by Hibs - adding the cup to that would have been the icing on the cake.Attention will turn now to their European involvement next season but there is certainly a feeling of “what might have been”.
Match analysis
Moira Gordon sums up the action from an historic afternoon for St Johnstone - and another agonising one at the National Stadium for Hibs.
St Johnstone 1-0 Hibs: How Saints landed incredible cup double as Shaun Rooney is hero again
The signs around Perth in the build-up read “Impossible dream”. But with this St Johnstone side, nothing is impossible, as they proved once again in one of the most remarkable seasons in Scottish football.
Player ratings
Our team at Hampden ran the rule over each player involved today
Scottish Cup final player ratings: St Johnstone 1 Hibs 0
Marks out of ten for every player to get game time at Hampden this afternoon.