Dundee Utd2–0Morton

Dundee United fielded the eleven who beat Celtic in midweek with Billy Kirkwood and Ralph Milne left on the bench again. Morton also had an unchanged side, having won their last two games away from home.

The casual opening to this match was only disturbed by a determined Pettigrew run and shot in five minutes, but his effort was off target. Sturrock was next to threaten when his powerful shot was blocked by a defender on the edge of the box. United then followed up with another dangerous move. Bannon dispatched an inch-perfect pass to Sturrock on the wing. He outstripped Holmes and crossed low to Pettigrew. Baines in the Morton goal was able to save his shot though, at the second attempt. With 18 minutes played, United took the lead. Bannon did all the spade work to create an opening at the edge of the box and Willie Pettigrew advanced to rifle an unstoppable left foot shot past Baines. On the half-hour mark United earn a penalty kick. Sturrock chased a high lob from Holt and crossed from the by-line. The ball got stopped by the hand of Holmes and the referee pointed to the spot after a brief check with the linesman. Eamonn Bannon made no mistake with the spot-kick, sending Baines the wrong way. Bannon almost made it two in two minutes when he wheeled on a Sturrock cross, but his shot lacked power.

After a quiet opening to the second half, Morton brought on McNeill for Tolmie in 51 minutes. Sturrock was causing all sorts of problems at this stage and he had two very close things. First a hard curling cross from the right beat Baines but was plucked from Holt's head by a timely Rooney header. From the following short corner, Sturrocked volleyed wide a Bannon cross from just eight yards. On the hour mark, Thomson met a brilliant Ritchie corner with a perfectly timed leap, but somehow he directed his header across goal instead of into the net. Dave Narey had bad luck in 64 minutes when he powerfully headed a Sturrock cross past Baines, only to see it hit the post. As the match petered out, United squandered another chance when Kirkwood headed weakly wide after a Sturrock cross, with the goal at his mercy. It ended with two more important points for United at the end of a good week for the club.