Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Dundee Go Top.....

Morton 1, Dundee 2, Cappielow, SPFL Championship, 07-December-2013

Dundee beat Morton 2-1 in a well deserved win at Cappielow it moved the Dark Blues top of the league on goal difference. Craig Beattie opened the scoring on 15 minutes when he rounded the keeper to finish a fine move. Declan Gallagher doubled Dundee's lead when he headed home from a corner right on half-time. Although Morton pulled a goal back in the second half Dundee still had enough chances to settled the game , but they held out to win the game and claim all three points.

Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Poor Show From The Dark Blues......

Dundee 0 Raith Rovers 1, Scottish Cup, Dens Park, 30-Nov-13

After the high from last Saturday's performance at Hamilton, Dundee were brought back down to earth when they were beaten 1-0 by Raith Rovers in the Scottish Cup.

The Rovers started the better side and after a surging run by Thomson he was tackled in the box as the fans waited to see if it was a free kick or Penalty. The Referee played on Dundee's Gary Irvine passed the ball back to keeper Kyle Letheren who was out of position and the ball ended up in the net for a bizarre own goal. This was on Eight minutes gone in the tie but sadly Dundee struggled to get going the midfield were really poor and it must have hard for the strikers to create anything. Rovers were not much better as the first half closed the Dundee Fans were hoping for a better second half.

Manager John Brown put on Martin Boyle in place of Craig Wighton to try and boost the strike force, but sadly we still struggled to make a impact. Only for a ten minute spell you would have thought it was a Scottish Cup Tie with Dens Park being very quiet this afternoon.

Dundee put on Beattie and Monti during the second half to no avail and although the Rovers were not great they deserved to go through to the next round.

Dundee: Letheren, Irvine, Gallagher, Davidson Lockwood (Monti 82), Riley, McAlister, Rae, Conroy(Beattie 61), MacDonald, Wighton (Boyle 45). Subs Not Used: Twardzik, McBride, Doris, and Thomson.

Referee: S McLean

Att: 3,184

MoM: Peter MacDonald