Sunday, August 25, 2013

Raith Rovers 0 Dundee 0, Starks Park, SPFL Championship, 24-August-13

Dundee started well and looked a lot more comfy with the 4-4-2 formation with Matt Lockwood and Willie Dyer in the defence for the injured Iain Davidson and Kyle Benedictus. early on McBride and MacDonald had good shots blocked but Dundee only looked like scoring from set pieces and corners.

They were really unlucky twice when first Peter MacDonald broke into the box and was fouled and then Declan Gallagher headed home from a McAlister corner but the he was punished for a push, both times the Referee got it wrong. After that both Irvine and MacDonald wasted headers by putting them wide and over the bar.

Second half was more even with Rovers doing better, but it took a great saved from McGurn to deny Gallagher a goal from a header and his follow up was cleared off the line. Manager John Brown put on Steven Doris and Martin Boyle to try and grab the points and Steven Doris might have scored but his shot was just wide when he got into a good position in the box.

Jamie Reid came on as well but it ended 0-0 which maybe left Dundee thinking it should have been three points. The Rovers will feel they deserved a point due to their better second half performance.

Dundee: Letheren, Irvine, Gallagher, Lockwood, Dyer, McAlister, McBride, Rae, Conroy(Reid (87), Monti (Doris (60), MacDonald (Boyle (67). Subs Not Used: Twardzik, Kerr, Thomson, Carberry.

Ref: J. Beaton

Att:2,603