Jack Ross has challenged his red hot frontline to hit a half century and fire Hibs to league and cup glory.
Kevin Nisbet and Martin Boyle stuck in Wednesday night’s 2-1 win against Livingston to secure European football at Easter Road and along with along with Christian Doidge, took their total to 43 for the season.
The three of them have grabbed the lat 13 goals for Hibs and Ross wants a big push to nail down third spot in the Premiership and hunt down the Scottish Cup.
He said: “I’ve encouraged others to get others to get on the scoresheet but I don’t think you can complain when you have a front three contributing as many goals.
“They have all contributed over the season but the good thing is they are in great form at the moment.
“They are in a good place and some of the play in the first half was terrific. Martin was just about unplayable.
“If they can get to the 50 goal mark as a trio it would be outstanding.
“We’ll need them with the high stakes games coming up.
“What they’ve done already is good and they deserve credit for it. But we want to achieve something that is very good.”
Hibs blew Livi away in the first half before the Lions put up a fight in the second half, with Jay Emmanual-Thomas’s late penalty causing a scare.
But Livi boss David Martindale took the rap and said: “I think the shape – or the personnel within the shape – killed us.
“I got that wrong, I got the starting XI wrong, the shape wrong in the first half. I tried to change that in the first half but by that point it was too late.
“In the second half they deserve massive credit.”
Hibs flew out the traps and grabbed the lead inside seven minutes and the goal was a thing of beauty from start to finish.
Paul McGinn resisted the temptation of taking a winder from 25 yards and inside checked back and slid inside to Boyle, who squared it for Nisbet to bury.
It was quick, slick and incisive, and it peeled Livi like a banana.
Boyle skinned them again soon afterwards for the second before the half hour when he skipped inside Efe Ambrose and tempted the defender to hang out a toe.
The wide man slammed the spot kick high in to the net and poor Livi had the look of a side feeling the effects of a long hard season.
Hibs refused to let up, Jackson Longridge lasted half an hour of Boyle bashing, while Ambrose stumbled on until the break.
Nisbet and Christian Doidge had gone close to adding to the the lead before then while Livi returned with a new shape to fend off the hosts.
There was marked improvement as they went on the attack, with Craig Sibbald’s deflected effort comfortably claimed by Ofir Marciano.
Matej Poplatnick wasn’t far off either, turning just wide from Nicky Devlin’s cross with his first touch after coming off the bench before sub Alan Forrest dragged an effort wide.
The same man was involved in a trio of penalty shout that had the visitors fuming. Forrest was booked for a dive at the first, then Scott Pittmen went down claiming a nudge before Devlin’s header looked suspiciously close to Doidge’s arm.
Martindale’s men finally got a spot kick when Emmanuel-Thomas was tripped by Kyle Magennis after the sub made a hash of his first touch after coming on.
The big striker found the bottom corner and Hibs were left hanging on in a game that looked out of sight.
