Dundee Utd0–0Hearts

Billy McKinlay joined Dave Narey on the sidelines as United faced a Hearts. It turned out to be a match of few highlights, though as Manager Ivan Golac pointed out afterwards, had Dave Bowman's fierce volley gone in instead of clattering off the upright in the 25th minute, the outcome might have been so totally different. As it was the game rarely flowed and was punctuated with stoppages which eventually led to seven names going into the referee's book. Hearts finished the first half on top, but their main threat was an aerial one at set pieces.

The closest they came to scoring was early in the second half when Levein's netbound shot was headed away by Freddy van der Hoorn, United, meanwhile, almost broke the deadlock when Gary Bollan slung over a cross from the left from which Brian Welsh sent in a diving header which bounced in front of goal and fractionally over. Both sides used their full compliment of substitutes in endeavouring to snatch a winner and in the closing stages, United did look more likely to score than Hearts. Andy McLaren escaped from Hogg before letting fly from 20 yards and Smith was grateful to tip his effort round the post. Dave Bowman saw his shot deflected narrowly past and Andy McLaren drove narrowly wide of the target from a crafty through ball from Scott Crabbe. In the end both teams had to settle for a point from a disappointing contest.