Dundee 0 Motherwell 4, Dens Park, Scottish Cup 4th Rd, 09/January/10

In this Scottish Cup 4th Rd tie at Dens Park Dundee were well beaten by 4 goals to nil. Motherwell got off to the perfect start scoring early through ex-dee John Sutton on 3 minutes when he shot past Rab Douglas after Murphy done well on the wing. Dundee did come into it and Griffiths was unlucky when he was ruled offside he looked on to me. Motherwell's midfield done a good job on giving Dundee's midfield no room to create much.

Second half and with my thoughts we got to half time and still only 1-0... lets have a go...but Motherwell got their vital second goal when again John Sutton scored with a cool finish on 47 minutes. After this The Well were happy to sit on their lead and hit on the break. Leigh Griffiths was really unlucky when he hit the bar from a free kick which took a big defection from a well player. Soon after Sean Higgins went in with a wreckless tackle which ended up players getting booked on either side. Dundee had a few chance but failed to take them and Motherwell killed the game with a good goal Jennings scoring with a well placed header from a corner on 81 minutes. And to complete the scoring Murphy scored for the steelmen with another cool finish.

Dundee tried their best today, maybe just a off day for them. The league will be more important now, so starting with Dunfermline next week the focus will be on to get more points to close the gap at the bottom.

Dundee: Douglas,Irvine,Lockwood,McKeown,Weston,Forsyth,O'Donnell, Stewart (Benedictus 63)Harkins,Griffiths,Higgins. Subs: Gibson, Benedictus, Webster, Ross Carnegie, Mcintosh

Ref: Conroy

Att: 4,285

It was good to catch up with some Motherwell mates before and after the game, we have known each other for around 30 years so we had a few beers together. Here's to the next Dundee v Motherwell game.

From the left. Calum, Paul, Jim and George in France when Motherwell played AS Nancy in Europe.