Yahoo Sports Hibernian 1-0 Kilmarnock: Analysis
Derek McInnes opted to go unchanged following his side's resounding 4-0 victory over Aberdeen on Boxing Day.
He believed that performance to be Kilmarnock's "best attacking and defensive display" of the campaign but there was to be no repeat in Leith.
The Ayrshire outfit held up looked solid defensively throughout, while Kyle Vassell and Bobby Wales worked well feeding off scraps.
It was clearly a breakdown in transitional play within the midfield that kept their unwanted 11 match winless run at Easter Road.
The home team managed to largely contain Danny Armstrong, Fraser Murray and David Watson and won with relative ease.
That growing frustration may have played a part in Armstrong's eventual red card, which was Kilmarnock's league-high seventh dismissal in the Premiership this term.
