Matty Kennedy, who set up Bojan Miovski’s goal against Rangers, spoke to the press after the semi-final defeat at Hampden. The winger had another very fine game.

“When you come into the game, you know Rangers will have a lot of the ball. We tried to limit them as much as we could, and I think we did that, but the red card totally changes things.

“Anthony is a big player for us, he’s been brilliant this season. He’ll be hurting but he’ll be back stronger for it. It’s part and parcel of football as a defender, you go into tackles and occasionally, you mistime one and you have to take the consequences.

“Even then, we were still unlucky not to get it to penalties with ten men. Everybody can be proud of the effort they put in, players and staff, and I think we deserved more from the day.

“I had to move to right-back after the red card, which is an unfamiliar position. Scott Wright did well to get by me and played a good ball into the box and they scored from there. It’s hard with ten men to handle the quality they have but I think all the supporters saw how much we put into the game and it was good to see them stay behind at the end to recognise that.

“It’s a big game coming up now on Wednesday night at Tynecastle and we can use that to get this out of our system. We’ve got to dust ourselves down for that. We need to recover from this one and then try to put things right in that game. As a player, you can’t dwell on results, you always have to go onto the next game and that’s what we’ll be looking to do. There’s a lot of big games coming up and we’re looking forward to them.”