Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Latest From Dens Park..

Dundee will play Royal Antwerp at Dens Park to finish their pre-season buildup.The Belgians will visit Dens Park on Monday, August 3. Royal Antwerp narrowly missed out on promotion to the Belgian First Division last season. Having finished third top of division two they safely negotiated the knock-out stage of the play-offs. But with Belgium’s top flight being reduced to 16 teams this term there was then a four-club round-robin competition for just one place and they lost out. Late news: Goalkeeper RabDouglas flew back to Scotland yesterday in search of a cure for an achilles tendon problem. Douglas left Dundee’s training camp in Uttendorf at lunchtime, aiming to make a hastily arranged appointment with a specialist in Edinburgh late last night. It’s not thought the complaint is serious but the Dark Blues decided to move swiftly in dealing with it in order to minimise the extent to which the players’ preparations for the new season might be disrupted. Meanwhile Dundee’s line up for the match v FC Augsburg will be: Bullock, Cowan, Malone, MacKenzie, Benedictus, Kerr, McHale, Young, Hart, McMenamin, Forsyth.
Tonight’s opponents are from the second Bundesliga, where for the past two years they have only narrowly avoided relegation.