De Kock has not taken part in any of South Africa's gestures of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, saying in June it was down to his "own, personal opinion". The Dutchman was officially confirmed as Steven Gerrard's successor at Ibrox on Thursday, but will play no part in the build-up to this weekend's last-four showdown. "It's been a pleasing day. It was a good performance from start to finish. It's been difficult, with all the players that are unavailable, but for large parts of the game we were in control. It's been a tough few weeks - we had all the fit defenders available that we could play here. "We'd had a really good start to the season that was tainted by that run we were on," said the Hibs boss.