Dundee Utd 4
Motherwell 0
League (Premier Division)
Dundee UtdDundee Utd |
4 - 04 - 0 |
MotherwellMotherwell |
 |
League (Premier Division) |
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| Goalscorers | |
|
Iain Ferguson (24) John Philliben (o.g.) (28) Tommy Coyne (74) Fraser Wishart (o.g.) (76) |
None. |
| Team Managers | |
|
Jim McLean |
Unknown. |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Billy Thomson Dave Beaumont Maurice Malpas Paul Hegarty Gary McGinnis Jim McInally Dave Bowman Eamonn Bannon Paul Sturrock Iain Ferguson Kevin Gallacher |
John Gardiner Fraser Wishart Derek Murray John Philliben Alex Kennedy Tommy Boyd Andy Walker Ray Farningham John Reilly Brian Wright Paul Smith |
| Bench | |
|
Ian Redford Tommy Coyne |
Gordon Mair Crawford Baptie |
| Substitutions | |
|
Tommy Coyne for Iain Ferguson (46) Ian Redford for Jim McInally (81) |
Gordon Mair for Derek Murray (58) Crawford Baptie for Ray Farningham (79) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Jim McCluskey (Stewarton) (Referee) |
Match Report
Two own goals helped United to their biggest home win of the season so far. In the first half Iain Ferguson opened the scoring in the 24th minute, closely followed by United’s second when the first of the Own Goal’s was converted by John Philliben.
The second half saw United dominant again and two goals in four minutes sealed the game. Tommy Coyne scored the third and then Fraser Wishart scored an own goal to seal the game for the Tangerines.
Squad Statistics (as at October 8th, 1986)
| 1986-87 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Billy Thomson (GK) | 28 |
|
17 | - | 70 | - |
| Gary McGinnis | 22 |
|
8 | - | 35 | 1 |
| Dave Beaumont | 22 |
|
15 | - | 60 | 2 |
| Maurice Malpas | 24 |
|
17 | - | 251 | 8 |
| Paul Hegarty | 32 |
|
17 | 3 | 580 | 77 |
| Jim McInally | 22 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Eamonn Bannon | 28 |
|
17 | 2 | 359 | 96 |
| Dave Bowman | 22 |
|
12 | - | 12 | - |
| Paul Sturrock | 29 |
|
15 | 1 | 510 | 158 |
| Kevin Gallacher | 19 |
|
14 | 6 | 38 | 9 |
| Iain Ferguson | 24 |
|
10 | 12 | 10 | 12 |
| Ian Redford (sub) | 26 |
|
15 | 3 | 58 | 13 |
| Tommy Coyne (sub) | 23 |
|
5 | 2 | 68 | 14 |
League Table (as at October 8th, 1986)
No league table has been added for this season.