Dundee Utd 1
Lokeren 1
UEFA Cup (2nd Round 1st Leg)
Dundee UtdDundee Utd |
1 - 11 - 1 |
LokerenLokeren |
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UEFA Cup (2nd Round 1st Leg) |
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| Goalscorers | |
|
Willie Pettigrew (66) |
Raymond Mommens (60) |
| Team Managers | |
|
Jim McLean |
Urbain Haesaert & Jozef Vacenovsky |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Hamish McAlpine Dave Narey Iain Phillip Derek Stark Paul Hegarty Frank Kopel Eamonn Bannon Willie Pettigrew Graeme Payne Colin Campbell Paul Sturrock |
Bouke Hoogenboom Robert Dalving Maurice De Schrijver Eddy Snelders Ronald Somers Marc Verbruggen Raymond Mommens René Verheyen Arnor Gudjohnsen Preben Elkjaer Larsen Wlodzimierz Lubanski |
| Bench | |
|
John Gardiner John Holt Ralph Milne Billy Kirkwood Joe Ward |
Roland Ingels Ronny Laroy Rudiger Van Raemdonck Hendrik Van Cauter |
| Substitutions | |
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Ralph Milne for Colin Campbell (75) |
Roland Ingels for Marc Verbruggen (56) Ronny Laroy for Raymond Mommens (67) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Marc Verbruggen (53) Preben Elkjaer Larsen (83) |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Martti Hirviniemi (Finland) (Referee) |
Match Report
United had to use all their European experience to stay in this tie. Lokeren were a side full of internationalists and they caused the United side no end of problems. United's only change from the weekend saw Eamonn Bannon drafted in for Ian Gibson, who was ineligible due to being signed after the competitions transfer deadline.
Paul Sturrock could have given United sixth minute lead when he had two headed efforts after Paul Hegarty back-headed a Derek Stark throw-in to him, but neither beat Bouke Hoogenboom in the Lokeren goal. Colin Campbell almost broke the deadlock when he dipped a shot in from 25 yards but his shot went over the bar. The Belgians were dangerous on the break, and Gudjohnsen missed a chance when he headed wide after Lato had cut back from the left.
At half time, Ralph Milne was introduced and within minutes he had set up Narey, but the defender shot over from 12 yards. The goal Lokeren had been threatening to score came on the hour mark, when Gudjohnsen sent Raymond Mommens racing into the penalty area, and the skipper blasted the ball into the back of the net to give his side the lead. After Narey had missed another shooting chance, United were thrown a lifeline in the 72nd minute when Willie Pettigrew diverted a 25 yard Sturrock effort into the unguarded goal with the keeper stranded. Hoogenboom palmed away a Stark shot with two minutes to go, and the match finished all square.
Although they had conceded an away goal, United were still in the thick of this tie.
Squad Statistics (as at October 22nd, 1980)
| 1980-81 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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| Hamish McAlpine (GK) | 32 |
|
20 | - | 429 | 3 |
| Iain Phillip | 29 |
|
14 | - | 63 | 1 |
| Frank Kopel | 31 |
|
13 | - | 353 | 13 |
| Dave Narey | 24 |
|
19 | 1 | 303 | 21 |
| Paul Hegarty | 26 |
|
20 | 5 | 258 | 44 |
| Derek Stark | 21 |
|
20 | 1 | 102 | 3 |
| Eamonn Bannon | 22 |
|
17 | 4 | 48 | 8 |
| Colin Campbell | 23 |
|
6 | - | 6 | - |
| Willie Pettigrew | 27 |
|
8 | 4 | 58 | 26 |
| Graeme Payne | 24 |
|
18 | 4 | 248 | 17 |
| Paul Sturrock | 24 |
|
20 | 6 | 239 | 61 |
| Ralph Milne (sub) | 19 |
|
12 | 3 | 33 | 6 |
League Table (as at October 22nd, 1980)
| Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Aberdeen | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | +16 | 17 |
| 2. | Rangers | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | +18 | 16 |
| 3. | Celtic | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | +13 | 16 |
| 4. | Airdrie | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | -1 | 11 |
| 5. | Partick Th | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 11 |
| 6. | United | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | -5 | 8 |
| 7. | St Mirren | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | +1 | 7 |
| 8. | Morton | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -10 | 6 |
| 9. | Hearts | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 5 |
| 10. | Kilmarnock | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | -21 | 3 |
| League results since United's last match |
|---|
| None. |
Manager's Programme Notes
After the rigours of Premier League competition since last month, we go in against our UEFA Cup visitors KSC Lokeren from Belgium tonight fresh from that first league win of the term at Kilmarnock last Saturday. And what a timely boost to morale that was following a spell in which several aspects of the side required sharpening up — in thought as well as action. Thankfully the message now appears to have got through to several more of the current first team squad, I am thinking in particular of the performances in recent games of the likes of Graeme Payne, Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock. Each was struggling for a spell to regain the form we all knew they were capable of and their most recent outings have proved to me at least that they have acquired the proper attitude to rid themselves of their form lapses. Hopefully more will join them.
Tonight it's back into Europe again in the form of our clearly talented opponents from Belgium, and although I have often in the past defined our Euro involvement as secondary to our domestic business, I nevertheless look for further advancement. As far as I am concerned European competition has long been for Dundee United something of a busman's holiday, a means to get away for a short spell from the pressures placed weekly by Premier League participation. But although I regard it as a means of getting away from it all for the side it is nevertheless a competition — and one which is there for each of the participants to win. Therefore, as you all know, I am probably the biggest advocate of 'winners' around in football and tonight's clash against the Belgians is still
extremely high on my list of priorities at the current moment.