Dundee made four changes to the team which faced Ross County last week, Trever Carson, Jordan McGhee, Oluwaseun Adewumi and Samuel Braybrooke replacing John McCracken, Ethan Ingram, Josh Mulligan and Seb Palmer-Houlden.
Rangers started well and put Dundee under some pressure the first 10 minutes or so. They did score on 17 minutes when Dessers initial shot was saved by Carson and made it’s way out to Cerny, his low hard driven shot made it’s way back to Dessers who slotted the ball home.
After a good move Murray had a shot well saved , but it was ruled off-side. The Dark Blues nearly found a breakthrough when Mohamad Sylla played the ball through the Rangers defence for Adewumi to chase but just before he could get proper control of the goal, Butland in the Rangers goal came rushing out top deny the winger.
In the last moments of the half Scott Carson made a couple of good saves , the second one he tipped over the ball as the half ended 1-0 to Rangers,
Dundee made one change at half time with Seb Palmer-Houlden coming on for Adewumi who took a knock near the end of the first half.
Just a few minutes into the second half however, Rangers were awarded a penalty when Sylla was adjudged to have brought down Dessers with Tavernier making no mistake from the spot to make it 2-0. Sylla was also shown a yellow card for his challenge.
Soon after Dundee came close twice when first Palmer-Houlden shot was saved for a corner, and from it Murray's header was saved bu Butland.
Then carson made another two saves and minutes later Seb Palmer-Houlden should haved scored with a header from six yards out.
But dessers scored his second goal and third of the game to finish the contest. Dundee made a change when Braybrooke making way for Josh Mulligan.
Dundee would then create another chance to grab a goal, this time it falling to Tiffoney. A loose ball was picked up by the winger and after taking a few touches, his attempt was saved by Butland.
McGhee went down injured and Manager Tony Docherty made more changes when Tiffoney, Murray and McGhee being replaced by Curtis Main, Julien Vetro and Ethan Ingram.
The game ended 3-0 to the home side and it was a painful one to take result wise. Although they had chances they need to take them in cup games.
Dundee: Carson, Portales, Koumetio, Larkeche, McGhee (Ingram 77), Sylla, Cameron, Braybrooke (Mulligan 69), Murray (Main 77), Tiffoney (Vetro 77), Adewumi (Palmer-Houlden 46), Unused Subs: McCracken, Robertson, Reilly, Astley
Referee: Chris Graham
Att: 33,665
