St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson hopes that his side's League Cup win and journey to today's finale will overcome setbacks caused by players being forced into Covid-19 self-isolation.

"It's obviously been very tough the last three weeks," he tells BBC Scotland. "It has been a testing time and the only good thing is that they were all back on Wednesday and we have assessed who is good and ready to go and picked the team accordingly.

"We've been here three times this season and won them, so that takes a bit of the pressure off. But every game we've played against Hibs this season could have gone either way and it will be a real tough game as Jack Ross' side have been fantastic as well, finishing third."

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It's been an incredible year for Hibs striker Kevin Nisbet. His dad died just before December's Scottish Cup semi-final defeat by Hearts in which he missed a crucial penalty.

The former Partick Thistle player has come back strong though. Eighteen goals. A first Scotland cap. Heading to the Euros. Will there also be a Scottish Cup winners medal?

Olympic curler Eve Muirhead has got her whole farm kitted out in Saints gear...commitment.

Since Hibs returned to the top flight in 2017, they have struggled to get the better of St Johnstone.

In fact, they've only won three of the 13 meetings since, including one of five this season - and that was back in August.

St Johnstone have won three of those, drawing one. Plenty of reason to be positive for Saintees.

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Seven years on from their first major trophy, St Johnstone have the chance to become only the second non-Old Firm club to win two domestic honours in the same season, with Aberdeen, in 1990, the only side to do so other than Celtic and Rangers.

Two cup wins and European qualification in Callum Davidson's first campaign would make it - arguably - the best 2020/21 season (pound for pound) of any club in Britain.

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Jack Ross' Hibs are on a mission to rid themselves of a (probably unfair) bottlers tag.

There was a feeling among supporters that their team failed to turn up on the big occasion, chiefly when they were routed 3-0 by St Johnstone in the League Cup semi-final in January, and before that, edged out by rivals Hearts in the delayed semi-final of last season's Scottish Cup.

In the last third of the season, though, they have stepped up, beating Aberdeen to third and easing into this final.

It would be the ultimate sign of their improved mentality if they were to do the business today.

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Eleven players in St Johnstone's team graphic. 1-0 to Saints' social media team...