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Next weekend follows a similar pattern as Hearts and Motherwell play at home on Saturday - against Aberdeen and Dundee United respectively - before Rangers host Celtic in the derby on Sunday.

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Kai Andrews fired in a late winner for Hibs, making it successive defeats for Celtic after Thursday's Europa League reverse against Stuttgart.

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O'Neill brought in Tomas Cvancara, Junior Adamu and Joel Mvuka to bolster his attacking options in January, but Adamu was an unused substitute against Hibs and Mvuka wasn't in the matchday squad.

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"We showed against Hearts that we can beat top of the league. Next week we have the next challenge. We will hunt again and again."

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Against Forest he was replaced by Rio Ngumoha, who put in the cross that led to Mac Allister's disallowed goal, and once again showed exactly why he's so highly rated with an energetic performance.

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