Aberdeen 0
Dundee Utd 3
League (Premier Division)
Aberdeen |
0 - 3 |
Dundee Utd |
 |
League (Premier Division) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| None. |
Willie Pettigrew (12) Iain Phillip (14) Eamonn Bannon (80) |
| Team Managers | |
| Alex Ferguson |
Jim McLean |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Bobby Clark Stuart Kennedy Doug Considine Alex McLeish Willie Garner Willie Miller Gordon Strachan Steve Archibald Joe Harper John McMaster Ian Scanlon |
Hamish McAlpine Iain Phillip Paul Hegarty Frank Kopel Dave Narey Derek Stark Eamonn Bannon George Fleming Paul Sturrock Willie Pettigrew Graeme Payne |
| Bench | |
|
Drew Jarvie Duncan Davidson |
Billy Kirkwood Davie Dodds |
| Substitutions | |
|
Drew Jarvie for Willie Garner (29) Duncan Davidson for Joe Harper (68) |
Davie Dodds for Willie Pettigrew (82) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Ian Foote (Glasgow) (Referee) |
Match Report
And a game reminiscent of the previous Saturday with Premier League goals easy to come by. Willie Pettigrew and Iain Phillip did the spadework with early goals and Eamonn Bannon provided the icing on the cake with the best of the three in the last ten minutes.
Squad Statistics (as at November 3rd, 1979)
| 1979-80 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Hamish McAlpine (GK) | 31 |
|
13 | - | 380 | 3 |
| Derek Stark | 20 |
|
20 | 1 | 53 | 2 |
| Paul Hegarty | 25 |
|
13 | - | 211 | 37 |
| Frank Kopel | 30 |
|
21 | 3 | 314 | 12 |
| Dave Narey | 23 |
|
21 | - | 254 | 19 |
| Iain Phillip | 28 |
|
18 | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Eamonn Bannon | 21 |
|
2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| George Fleming | 31 |
|
19 | 2 | 319 | 37 |
| Graeme Payne | 23 |
|
22 | 2 | 218 | 13 |
| Paul Sturrock | 23 |
|
22 | 6 | 191 | 49 |
| Willie Pettigrew | 26 |
|
20 | 9 | 20 | 9 |
| Davie Dodds (sub) | 21 |
|
14 | 2 | 60 | 16 |
League Table (as at November 3rd, 1979)
| Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Morton | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | +12 | 17 |
| 2. | Celtic | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | +12 | 17 |
| 3. | Aberdeen | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | +7 | 13 |
| 4. | Rangers | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 13 |
| 5. | Kilmarnock | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | -6 | 13 |
| 6. | United | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | +5 | 12 |
| 7. | Partick Th | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 12 |
| 8. | St Mirren | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 10 |
| 9. | Dundee | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -13 | 9 |
| 10. | Hibernian | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | -13 | 4 |