Monday, December 29, 2008

Dundee 0 Partick Thistle 0, Dens Park,First Division, 20/December/08

Dundee created two fantastic early chances but, in keeping with their luck in front of goal this season, neither were capitalised on. The first certainly should have been, as Bryan Deasley met David O'Brien's cutback 16 yards out, but he fired straight at goalkeeper Jon Tuffey. No blame could be apportioned for the second, though, as Mikael Antoine-Curierslammed a shot on target from 20 yards. Partick soon emerged as a force, though, and could have taken the lead on 12 minutes when Liam Buchanan rose inside the penalty area, but he directed his header wide.Buchanan was afforded another free header on 50 minutes when Simon Donnelly picked him out with a free kick. His header looked destined for the net until Jim Lauchlan got in to nod over his own bar.Partick defender Kevin McKinlay almost scored an own goal only seconds later when he looked set to bundle the ball in but managed to change his feet just in time, instead knocking the ball just wide. Douglas pulled off a sensational double save on 63 minutes to keep Partick out. A poor performance overall, and now we must start winning games. If it was not for Rab Douglas we would have dropped all 3 points.
Dundee: Douglas, Williams (Daquin 71), Malone (Forsyth 86), McHale, McKeown, Lauchlan, Shinnie, Posniak, Antoine-Curier, Deasley (McMenamin 71), O'Brien. Subs Not Used: Roy, Gilhaney.
Att: 3,569
Ref: C Thomson
MoM: Rab Douglas.