Dundee 0, Kilmarnock 0, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Premiership, 18-November-17

Dundee Manager Neil McCann made three changes from the team which faced Hibernian last week, Jon Aurtenetxe made his first start while Darren O’Dea and Mark O’Hara returned to the starting line-up. They replaced Kevin Holt and Josh Meekings, who were on the bench, and Lewis Spence, who was injured.

The game struggled to get going with Kilmarnock willing to sit deep and hit on the break, Dundee took a good 20 minutes to have a shot on goal and it was a Cammy Kerr effort which flew well over the ball. The first half was pretty uneventful and Marcus Haber had a tame header saved by the Killie keeper just before half time.

Second half was not much better both teams struggled to create chances it did get better in the last 10 minutes when at last Dundee had a half chance a good pass from Kamara put Leitch-Smith in but the Killie keeper saved well at the strikers feet. Then Darren O'Dea got sent off for a second yellow card two silly booking for the experienced defender. 

Kilmarnock nearly scored but Parish in the Dundee goal made a fine save to deny Erwin, in the dying seconds Kilmarnock hit the bar, luckily for the dark blues they managed to clear the rebound.

A very poor game but at least a clean sheet and a point to stop the run of defeats.

Dundee: Parish, Kerr, Hendry, O’Dea (c), Aurtenetxe, O’Hara, Kamara, Deacon (Meekings 84), McGowan (Leitch-Smith 66), El Bakhtaoui (Allan 76), Haber . Unused Subs: Ferrie , Holt, Moussa, Wolters.

Ref: Willie Collum

Att: 5,873