Six points from the next two games - that's would be just the ticket for Abdessalam Benjelloun, and if the Moroccan international can play a scoring part in the two victories he desires then all the better, if not it is all about the team and gathering points.

The striker is looking ahead to the trip north this weekend knowing that he may once again have to settle for a place on the bench, and personally frustrating as that might be Benji insists he is loving every minute of this season - and if his remaining on the bench is good for the team then it is something he is happy to accept: "The manager explained to me why he put me on the bench before the Falkirk game, he felt it would be a hard physical game so he wanted Colin Nish in there, he wanted a taller player. Colin did very well in that game so he kept his place in the team - that is football - there is a long season ahead so you have to just keep working.

"You can't play in every game so you keep working and when you get the chance you have to try and keep your place. It is not difficult because the most important thing is that the team win, that we take the three points every week if possible. It is good for the manager to have a lot of strikers to play and it is good for us if every player does very good. It is important this year because we have three or four strikers and everyone he puts in does well, that is good."

The strength of the Hibernian squad, in particular the attacking options open to the manager, has been a major factor in the current unbeaten league run. Having been around Hibernian for a few years now Benji is well aware that previously strength in depth was perhaps an issue for the side, and while that might have meant more chance of a regular place in the team it was not necessarily going to lead to sustained form: "We are in a much better position than we have been in for the last three or four years, we have players of a high level and it gives the manager good options, he can change the side all the time if he needs to.

"I am pleased because I played nine games in a row, obviously it would be good for me to play because my contract ends at the end of this season - but this is a big club, we can change every week and that is what happens at a big club."   It might also be expected that the striker has other things on his mind, with new contract talks looming - but Benji insists that is for another day: "I have never said I want to leave here, of course I like it at Hibernian and want to stay. My contract ends at the end of the season but I have options that I have to think about - if the club is happy and I am happy then we will see.

"But this is not the time for such talk, we have to think only about the games every week - the time for talking will come but first I am thinking only of the football. You have to keep your mind concentrating on the game because if you don't then it is bad, you have to think about only the football every day in training and every week it is about the game."   And so to this weekend and the trip to Pittodrie - not a stadium that Benjelloun can remember as being successful: "Aberdeen will be a very hard game, I think in my time here I have not been involved in a win there? This is a very hard place to go but I think we now have the players that can get a win there.

"We need to fully focus as they are a hard team and we know this, they lost last week at home so that will make them the more determined not to lose again. I feel though that we need to win this week to stay in touch at the top of the table, we need to win this game and then turn our attention to the Rangers game and try to win that also."