With every passing match it's clear to see the improvements in how Hibs perform on the park. It isn't always something particularly significant - indeed, sometimes it is merely noticing that assistant head coach Sérgio Raimundo often speaks to the foreign players on the park in their native tongue; a trick to get instructions over quicker, according to manager Nick Montgomery. 

The 2-2 draw with Hearts told us a lot about Hibs in terms of their collective self-belief but also the amount of work still needed. We also learned more about Montgomery's approach to man-management and how he sparked Élie Youan's turnaround in form from the first half to the second.

But there was so much more to the breathless 90 minutes at Tynecastle. "I was very disappointed in the first half and the way we played and I told them that it wasn't good enough," Montgomery said afterwards, admitting that the emotion of the occasion had got to some of his players. "We were a little bit slow to move the ball in the first half and we took too many touches and turned the ball over cheaply. That's something we're not done in  the last couple of weeks so I was disappointed with that. I told them in the second half they had to go out there and fix it and I thought they did."

Despite Hibs performing a little below-par in Montgomery's eyes, what do the statistics say? here, we cast an eye over the StatsBomb data to tell the story of Hibs' derby fightback. 

The headline figures are not particularly unexpected: possession was an even 50/50 split, as was total number of  passes, with Hibs enjoying a slightly higher pass completion rate (71% to 69%)  while Hearts enjoyed a higher expected goals (xG) of 1.47 to Hibs' 1.22. 

Hibs' highest-value chance of the game (0.25, meaning StatsBomb's xG model predicts this chance would result in a goal 25 times out of 100) was Youan's first goal. The post-shot xG (PSxG) - that is, the likelihood of a goal after the shot has left the player's foot, is marginally higher at 0.29.

The race chart of the two teams illustrates the flow of the game and the quality of chances recorded. 

What is clear from the race chart is that Hibs' xG did accumulate as the match progressed but Hearts started much quicker, reaching 0.42 xG by the time Alan Forrest scored the opener, while Hibs were on just 0.09 xG thanks to low-value efforts by Youan and Dylan Vente. Hearts had three opportunities through Alex Lowry, while Kye Rowles, Toby Sibbick, and Lawrence Shankland had one each before Forrest's goal. 

What is also noticeable is that Hibs' flurry of chances just before the interval - two chances for Youan plus one apiece for Martin Boyle, Lewis Miller, Vente, and Christian Doidge - moved them ahead of Hearts on cumulative xG only for Doidge's own goal from Lowry's effort, the first chance of the second period, to allow the hosts to retake the lead in terms of xG. Hearts had just one more chance, a low-value attempt by Lowry, between their second goal and Hibs' first. Jordan Obita, Boyle, and Youan had a chance each before Youan's quickfire brace. After that it was one-way traffic between minute 72 and 83 with Hearts having 11 attempts on goal resulting in a cumulative xG of 1.19 to Hibs' 1.01. Between 83 minutes and 95 minutes (including time added on for injuries) Hibs had four chances to Hearts' three but the 11 attempts without reply were enough to see the home side finish comfortably ahead on xG. The bars at the top of the graphic tell us that, if that match as it was took place 100 times over, Hearts would win 43 times, Hibs 28 times, with 29 draws. 

Although Youan found the net twice, Hibs' shot map tells us more about their performance in front of goal. 

Only Youan's first goal, and Doidge's header shortly after the break, are anything approach high-value chances; the rest - even Youan's second - have a low xG. That being said, Hearts didn't manage any high-value attempts either with a blocked effort by Sibbick, and Beni Baningime's scooped shot late on the only real chances of note. Incidentally, Hibs' xG per shot of 0.071 is the lowest recorded in the league since Montgomery's arrival. Against Kilmarnock that figure was 0.100, it was 0.144 in the 2-0 victory over St Johnstone, and it was 0.109 against Dundee in the goalless draw. 

Certianly the view from the press box was that Hibs struggled to create any real chances of note and there was a degree of good fortune in both Youan's goals given the way the ball broke to him in the box on both occasions, and errors made by Hearts players in the lead-up to both strikes. 

This graphic shows a map of Hibs' passing network for the first half compared to the second. The most notable takeaway from the first 45 is how influential Lewis Miller was in terms of on-ball value (OBV), which is the metric used to determine each player's influence with the ball. Miller was Hibs' most effective performer against Dundee and he maintained that in the first half against Hearts. But what the second half tells us is not only how important Dylan Levitt was during his substitute appearance, but also how important Vente was to Hibs' comeback. The Dutchman, Levitt, and Youan were Hibs' outstanding performers in the second 45 minutes. What this confirms is that Levitt was brought on to increase Hibs' chances of sneaking the win but also the difference in first-half Youan compared to second-half Youan, after he'd had the rollicking from Montgomery at half-time. 

Youan's OBV at half-time was a paltry 0.01; by the time the final whistle blew his OBV was measured at 0.23. Vente, meanwhile, jumped from -0.03 to 0.14 in the same period. Youan might have stolen the show with his quickfire double but the roles of Levitt and Vente shouldn't be overlooked.

Hibs' pressure heat map shows that while a lot of pressing was carried out on the right flank, there was a good deal in the middle of the park too. Incidentally, against Dundee, Jimmy Jeggo and Joe Newell recorded the most pressures over the 90 minutes with 21 and 17 respectively. While both recorded 20+ pressures at Tynecastle (24 and 21 respectively), they were outdone by Vente with 26 and Youan, with a whopping 46 pressures during the course of the game - another illustration of Vente's importance, and Youan's turnaround from first half to second.