Dundee Utd 1
Hibernian 2
League (SPL)
Dundee UtdDundee Utd |
1 - 21 - 2 |
HibernianHibernian |
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League (SPL) |
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| Goalscorers | |
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Collin Samuel (46) |
Derek Riordan (74) Tam McManus (pen.) (88) |
| Team Managers | |
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Ian McCall |
Bobby Williamson |
| Starting Eleven | |
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1. Paul Gallacher 3. Jim Paterson 5. Alan Archibald 12. Scott Paterson 2. Danny Griffin 7. Mark Kerr 11. Barry Robson 4. Derek McInnes 8. Charlie Miller 14. Billy Dodds 9. Collin Samuel |
Daniel Andersson Alen Orman Mathias Kouo-Doumbé Gary Smith Yannick Zambernardi Ian Murray Grant Brebner Jarkko Wiss Stephen Glass Derek Riordan Scott Brown |
| Bench | |
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17. Tony Bullock 6. Gary Bollan 15. Stuart Duff 20. Jason Scotland 10. Jim McIntyre |
Morten Hyldgaard Stephen Dobie Tam McManus Steven Whittaker Kevin Thomson |
| Substitutions | |
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Stuart Duff for Charlie Miller (71) Jim McIntyre for Billy Dodds (76) Gary Bollan for Jim Paterson (79) |
Tam McManus for Stephen Glass (70) Stephen Dobie for Scott Brown (85) |
| Cautions | |
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Stuart Duff (78) |
Yannick Zambernardi (37) Tam McManus (85) Mathias Kouo-Doumbé (88) |
| Red Cards | |
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Barry Robson (86) |
None. |
| Match Officials | |
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Kenny Clark (Referee) |
Match Report
The SPL campaign kicked off at Tannadice Park with the visit of Hibernian. Six debuts for Ian McCall's side after a close season spent adding to the squad.
United dominated possession in the first half. However, a mixture of goood defending from Hibs and a lack of final third quality conspired to keep the game goal-less at half time. It didn't take long in the second half though for United to open their goalscoring account for the season. Billy Dodds did well to dispossess Doumbe an advance into the area before he gave the ball to Collin Samuel who made no mistake from six yards out.
Against the run of play a Hibs cross set up the equaliser as the ball deflected off Alan Archibald and over the head of Paul Gallacher. The ball landed at the feet of Derek Riordan and he turned the ball home at the back post. The momentum stayed with the visitors and unfortunately for United it would be Hibs who would find a winner in the match. Ian Murray was pulled back by Barry Robson and the referee awarded a penalty as well as showing a red card to Robson. Tam McManus beat Gallacher from the spot and received a yellow card for over celebrating the winning goal.
Squad Statistics (as at August 9th, 2003)
| 2003-04 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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| Paul Gallacher (GK) | 23 |
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1 | - | 104 | - |
| Alan Archibald | 25 |
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1 | - | 1 | - |
| Scott Paterson | 31 |
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1 | - | 1 | - |
| Jim Paterson | 23 |
|
1 | - | 108 | 6 |
| Danny Griffin | 25 |
|
1 | - | 74 | 5 |
| Barry Robson | 24 |
|
1 | - | 1 | - |
| Derek McInnes | 32 |
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1 | - | 1 | - |
| Mark Kerr | 21 |
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1 | - | 1 | - |
| Charlie Miller | 27 |
|
1 | - | 108 | 14 |
| Billy Dodds | 34 |
|
1 | - | 72 | 29 |
| Collin Samuel | 21 |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Gary Bollan (sub) | 30 |
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1 | - | 71 | 4 |
| Stuart Duff (sub) | 21 |
|
1 | - | 48 | - |
| Jim McIntyre (sub) | 31 |
|
1 | - | 62 | 15 |
League Table (as at August 9th, 2003)
No league table has been added for this season.