League · Division One
Dundee Utd2–0St Mirren
Finn Døssing 30′
Finn Døssing 43′
Lineups
Dundee Utd
St Mirren
Dundee Utd · Starting XI
St Mirren · Starting XI
- Pat Liney
- Cammie Murray
- Ian Riddell
- Billy Gray
- Jim Clunie
- John Wilson
- Bobby Ross
- Henry Quinn
- Bobby Carroll
- Gerry Queen
- Archie Gemmill
Dundee Utd · Manager
St Mirren · Manager
- Jackie Cox
Match report
From the Sunday Post: "Great Danes there have been before - Hamlet and Hans Andersen, to name but two. Up Tannadice way, it's Finn Dossing for the title of greatest. "After all, Hamlet couldn't make up his mind and Andersen just told fairy tales. But this Viking lad makes his mind up quick - and just ask Liney if there is anything airy fairy about his finishing! "Give the big lad a ghost of a chance he takes it. "That 10 goals in seven games to date." But whilst eulogising over Finn's prolific strike rate, there were inevitably references to…Read moreRead less
From the Sunday Post:
"Great Danes there have been before - Hamlet and Hans
Andersen, to name but two. Up Tannadice way, it's Finn
Dossing for the title of greatest.
"After all, Hamlet couldn't make up his mind and Andersen just told fairy tales. But this Viking lad makes his mind up quick - and just ask Liney if there is anything airy fairy about his finishing!
"Give the big lad a ghost of a chance he takes it.
"That 10 goals in seven games to date."
But whilst eulogising over Finn's prolific strike rate, there were inevitably references to the state of the playing surface. "The pitch looked playable, but it was soon obvious the footing was far from secure. With defenders sliding extra yards in their tackles and forwards losing balance whenever they drew back to shoot, it's perhaps harsh to criticise. Yet one couldn't help feeling that some of the individual performances were so bad the poor pitch could not be made to shoulder all the blame.
"Take the St Mirren forward line, for example. What a footering five they turned out to be, in no time Smith and company had the road to goal blocked, and time and again the Paisley lads would spoil their own moves at the vital moment and make it even easier for the opposing defenders. "Samts started off with a sort of 4-2-4 set-up, outside-right Ross operating in defence, presumably to help curb the
Dossing menace. How sadly this plan misfired in the 30th and 43rd minutes. "First, when Liney brilliantly parried a rasper from Persson, there was Dossing, no messing, to crash it high into the net.
The centre's second goal was one of those out of the blue affairs, which is fast becoming his speciality. Getting, the ball out on the right after a free-kick from Munro, Finn suddenly turned back, moved left to the edge of the penalty box, and then nonchalantly clipped a lowbending left-footer right across the box and inside the far post." For Lennart Wing making his debut, he should have been at home in the wintry conditions, but it was a quiet start for the Swedish internationalist.
"Great Danes there have been before - Hamlet and Hans
Andersen, to name but two. Up Tannadice way, it's Finn
Dossing for the title of greatest.
"After all, Hamlet couldn't make up his mind and Andersen just told fairy tales. But this Viking lad makes his mind up quick - and just ask Liney if there is anything airy fairy about his finishing!
"Give the big lad a ghost of a chance he takes it.
"That 10 goals in seven games to date."
But whilst eulogising over Finn's prolific strike rate, there were inevitably references to the state of the playing surface. "The pitch looked playable, but it was soon obvious the footing was far from secure. With defenders sliding extra yards in their tackles and forwards losing balance whenever they drew back to shoot, it's perhaps harsh to criticise. Yet one couldn't help feeling that some of the individual performances were so bad the poor pitch could not be made to shoulder all the blame.
"Take the St Mirren forward line, for example. What a footering five they turned out to be, in no time Smith and company had the road to goal blocked, and time and again the Paisley lads would spoil their own moves at the vital moment and make it even easier for the opposing defenders. "Samts started off with a sort of 4-2-4 set-up, outside-right Ross operating in defence, presumably to help curb the
Dossing menace. How sadly this plan misfired in the 30th and 43rd minutes. "First, when Liney brilliantly parried a rasper from Persson, there was Dossing, no messing, to crash it high into the net.
The centre's second goal was one of those out of the blue affairs, which is fast becoming his speciality. Getting, the ball out on the right after a free-kick from Munro, Finn suddenly turned back, moved left to the edge of the penalty box, and then nonchalantly clipped a lowbending left-footer right across the box and inside the far post." For Lennart Wing making his debut, he should have been at home in the wintry conditions, but it was a quiet start for the Swedish internationalist.