St Johnstone 1
Dundee Utd 3
League (SPL)
St Johnstone |
1 - 3 |
Dundee Utd |
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League (SPL) |
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| Goalscorers | |
| Roddy Grant (84) |
Billy Dodds (16) Billy Dodds (pen.) (35) Billy Dodds (83) |
| Team Managers | |
| Sandy Clark |
Paul Sturrock |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Alan Main Nick Dasovic Alan Kernaghan Darren Dods Gary Bollan John O'Neil Paul Kane Gerry McMahon George O'Boyle Stuart McCluskey Nathan Lowndes |
Sieb Dijkstra .1 Magnus Sköldmark .20 Darren Patterson .5 Maurice Malpas .3 Iain Jenkins .2 Bernard Pascual .35 Lars Zetterlund .8 Craig Easton .11 Gary McSwegan .12 Kjell Olofsson .7 Billy Dodds .14 |
| Bench | |
|
Allan Ferguson Danny Griffin Andy Whiteford Allan Preston Roddy Grant |
Alan Combe .13 Jim Paterson .30 Joe Miller .15 Jamie Dolan .10 Steven Thompson .19 |
| Substitutions | |
|
Allan Preston for Gerry McMahon (28) Andy Whiteford for John O'Neil (45) Roddy Grant for Nathan Lowndes (64) |
None. |
| Cautions | |
|
Gary Bollan Darren Dods Allan Preston |
Darren Patterson Magnus Sköldmark |
| Red Cards | |
| Stuart McCluskey (35) |
Kjell Olofsson (84) |
| Match Officials | |
|
Stuart Dougal (Referee) |
Match Report
A dream hat-trick by Billy Dodds registered our first win of the season as Paul Sturrock made a swift return to McDiarmid Park.
Playing purposefully from the very start, The former Dons striker's looping header from the edge of the box defeating Alan Main.
Victory was virtually assured in the 34th minute. McCluskey was sent off for denying Kjell Olofsson a goalscoring opportunity and Billy Dodds rammed home the spot-kick.
His third came when he took a lofted pass from Gary McSwegan to chip over Alan Main before stroking the ball home. Within a minute Roddy Grant took advantage of some slack defensive play to pull one back and the only other disappointment of the afternoon was the dismissal of Kjell Olofsson after he became entangled with George O'Boyle.
Squad Statistics (as at September 26th, 1998)
| 1998-99 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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| Sieb Dijkstra (GK) | 31 |
|
10 | - | 87 | - |
| Magnus Sköldmark | 30 |
|
9 | - | 34 | - |
| Iain Jenkins | 25 |
|
7 | - | 14 | - |
| Maurice Malpas | 36 |
|
10 | - | 786 | 26 |
| Darren Patterson | 28 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Bernard Pascual | 31 |
|
6 | - | 6 | - |
| Craig Easton | 19 |
|
7 | - | 44 | 2 |
| Lars Zetterlund | 34 |
|
9 | - | 85 | 7 |
| Kjell Olofsson | 33 |
|
10 | 1 | 86 | 37 |
| Gary McSwegan | 28 |
|
6 | 3 | 118 | 46 |
| Billy Dodds | 29 |
|
2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
League Table (as at September 26th, 1998)
No league table has been added for this season.