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It's this massive fixture. I think it is a game to relish. Rangers and | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
Celtic will play their first league match in four years when they meet | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
at Celtic Park. A colossus on the calendar. I think it generates | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
interest and wealth and coverage. It is all a sideshow. The main event is | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
this match. The build-up, the Gamer, the passion. Something is going to | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
happen here. All things are going to happen. | :01:22. | :01:52. | |
Welcome to Sportscene. I think we can safely say it's been the most | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
seismic weekend in the premiership season so far. All be top-flight | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
action coming up, plus reaction, comment, an analysis of all the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
major talking point in what has been an eventful weekend. Year to bring | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
some order to the chaos, Steven Thompson and Michael Stewart. And so | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
to the first old firm derby in the league for four years. A week of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
mammoth build-up and a fascination all of its own. Robert McLean is | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
your match commentator. Celtic will start without Leigh Griffiths, who | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
is still struggling with a hamstring injury. Moussa Dembele leads the | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
attack and Philippe Senderos will be straight into the firing line. | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
Hail, Rossiter, and Forrester are out. Moussa Dembele. | :02:58. | :03:19. | |
And the warning bells were sounding. As Scott Sinclair made about darting | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
run in behind. Wes Foderingham did well in goal. Upping the ante here. | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
A corner kick. And there is the opening goal by Moussa Dembele. The | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
20-year-old Frenchman is in dreamland. 33 minutes gone and he | :03:47. | :04:03. | |
kisses the inside of the post. The marking was none too clever and the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
set piece, but it is a cowering header from Moussa Dembele. 1-0 to | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
Celtic. That pass was very poor. Moussa | :04:13. | :04:33. | |
Dembele turns away from Senderos. A double for Dembele on Old Firm date | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
at Celtic Park. It is a brilliant bit of finishing. And Celtic are two | :04:39. | :04:50. | |
heads. It all started with the poor pass from Kiernan. Suddenly, Dembele | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
in on goal. He did not need the help of Scott Sinclair alongside him. All | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
at the composure and quality you would look far inside the penalty | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
box as he shot the ball away from Wes Foderingham and the Premiership | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
leaders have 82 goal advantage now against Rangers. What a day for | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Dembele. Windass on the outside. A useful | :05:22. | :05:47. | |
volley for Kenny Miller and Rangers have eight goal back. Joe Garner | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
gets his first goal for the club. And breathes new life into Rangers. | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Just ahead of half-time. How badly did they need this? The cross | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
knocked back across the goal by Kenny Miller and it was the former | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Preston striker Joe Garner who applied the finishing touch. It is | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
2-1. Joey Barton looking to pull the strings. That is out wide. It was | :06:28. | :06:39. | |
only as far as Barry McKay. And he was not far away from getting it | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
into the top corner. The man who scored in spectacular style. In that | :06:48. | :06:59. | |
Scottish Cup semifinal. Armstrong. Finding Dembele. He is on a | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
hat-trick as he read the ball through. Scott Sinclair. He might | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
just have tied up all three points for Celtic. With an hour gone in the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Old Firm match. Sinclair strikes again. Five goals already for Celtic | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
and this could be the one that means there is no way back for Rangers. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
Two goals for Dembele and now an assistant and it is a critical | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
finish from Sinclair. In the inside the post. Celtic three, Rangers one. | :07:38. | :07:59. | |
Between Senderos and Dembele. A yellow on his debut for the Swiss | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
defender. As the officials combine to decide that was a "Up -- that was | :08:12. | :08:24. | |
a booking. So much in control and they continue to threaten. It is | :08:25. | :08:37. | |
Armstrong. A good save. He has looked impressive, Armstrong, since | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
stepping off the bench. Producing this flying save from the Rangers | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
goalkeeper and Sinclair was offside. A red card for Philippe Senderos. | :08:47. | :09:15. | |
And it is the nightmare debut for the Swiss defender. Rangers are down | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to ten men. The hand ball as the bouncing ball deceived them. And he | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
had to go. Armstrong. Sinclair. Dembele. | :09:25. | :10:00. | |
Looking for an Old Firm treble. And divide at the near post by Wes | :10:01. | :10:18. | |
Foderingham. Armstrong. For Roberts. Full steam ahead. It is a great ball | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
in for Dembele. It is an Old Firm hat-trick for Moussa Dembele. And it | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
is the icing on the cake for Celtic. It's 4-1 against Rangers. The former | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
Fulham striker hits the target again. Lustig the supplier and it is | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
a clinical finish from the Frenchman. | :10:56. | :11:08. | |
Shifting it from side to side. Tierney gets in behind and the | :11:09. | :11:31. | |
pull-back from Armstrong. It is a famous five for Celtic on old friend | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
Dave. -- on Old Firm 's day. Armstrong wraps it up for Brendan | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Rodgers's team. A comprehensive victory. Against ten man Rangers as | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
they were picked apart one more time and it is a clinical bit of | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
finishing from the substitute who has looked in confident mood since | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
coming off the bench. And he rounds of a memorable day for Celtic. 5-1. | :12:09. | :12:22. | |
Long ball for Waghorn. It would not have been much consolation in any | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
case. Even if that had gone in. It is a heavy beating for Mark | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Warburton's Rangers. He disappears down the tunnel. As Brendan Rodgers | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
celebrates the most emphatic of winds. Hat-trick from Moussa | :12:41. | :12:52. | |
Dembele. We thought we were very dominant in every area of the game. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Defensively, or organisation to press the game was at a very high | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
level. Also, when we couldn't win it back, we were able to drop in and | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the second goal came from that. I'm happy for the team and for us that | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
we got three points and for the fans and for me. Since the day I signed | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
for Celtic, I was looking forward to playing my first Old Firm game. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Defensively, we never really had any problems. Outstanding performance | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
and result. It would be tough to beat us and if we keep going like | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
this, I don't think that anything can cope with that and we have to | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
keep working hard and keep showing what we are all about. | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Dominant from Dembele. Celtic imperious. Rangers hammered. There | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
is no other way of putting it. Stephen, you were there. Mark | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Warburton said that there was no major gulf between the sides. I | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
think he is wrong. There is a big gulf between the sides. Rangers had | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
a couple of spells where they were OK but Celtic outclassed them and | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
ultimately embarrass them. Michael, huge credit to Celtic as an | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
attacking force. Week after week, we have covered these Rangers defensive | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
deficiencies and again, huge evidence of it yesterday. Yes. It is | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
a recurrent theme here. Set plays. We looked at Celtic's last game | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
against Aberdeen which was what we expect Rangers's management team | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
would have done as well, and they only have five men in the box and I | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
think that has caught Rangers off-guard. As we look at these clips | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
here, you see this is the first corner before the Dembele goal and | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
they are man for man up against the five men but Dembele is free. They | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
have been caught off guard. That is 20 minutes before the goal, so you | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
could forgive them for being caught off on that one. This is the goal. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Somebody has got to have recognised that Dembele was free. Again, | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Dembele is free. Joe Garner has got to be the man that goes touch time | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
and picked him up because if he does that, Dembele does not score. | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Whether that is the management team that saw that or whether that is | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
somebody as a player recognising it and doing it. The management team | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
could not have seen it because if they did, it would be corrected. You | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
do not get two bites at the cherry. The warning was the first one in the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
second one, it is schoolboy defending. The manager is ultimately | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
responsible. Of course, he is. If I am the manager, you set up a set | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
plays before the game. Your first corner comes in and you make sure | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
everybody does what you want. How they did not see that Dembele is | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
free there is really worrying be managed from the pitch as well. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Whether it is a goalkeeper on an experienced centre-half, whether | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
ever there is a spare man, you're usually told about it quite quickly. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
Rangers like a defensive leader. It was a great day for Moussa Dembele. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
The first player to score a hat-trick in an Old Firm league | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
match in 50 years. Celtic really countered on Rangers well. Brendan | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Rodgers topped about that. -- talked about that. In central midfield, | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
that is where you have got to give depth and cover. Joey Barton is | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
caught ahead of Moussa Dembele and does not recognise him and then | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
takes over. Senderos died in. He should not have done that. His | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
composure is unbelievable. He flicks it into the net. He was outstanding | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
yesterday. It is the perfect hit trick. Three goals. Everyone was | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
asking if Dembele could fill the void left by Griffiths. He clearly | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
did. Such an enjoyable day for Celtic fans. No Leigh Griffiths but | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Moussa Dembele stepped into his shoes. Celtic can go into their next | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
match full of confidence. Barcelona lost in La Liga yesterday. It will | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
be a very different game. They have to enjoy it. They have worked hard | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
to get to the Champions League. It is what the fans want and they | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
should just go and enjoy it and I don't think the result matters too | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
much to them. Michael, after yesterday's showing, what is your | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
judgment on Rangers? Where will be finish in the league? I never | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
expected them to challenge Celtic. A lot of questions needing answered | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
from Mark Warburton and he is under pressure. Let's move on. The last | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
couple of seasons, Aberdeen have come closest to Celtic but they lost | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
to the champions 4-1 in their last game. Can they find their mojo | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
against Caley Thistle? Richie Foran's side went to meet them with | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
optimism. Players get nervous and supporters | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
get nervous, the longer we are out there. St Johnstone back on level | :18:14. | :18:23. | |
terms. What a sweet strike. A score in stoppage time. Sets us up nicely | :18:24. | :18:35. | |
for Aberdeen. Aberdeen are boosted by the return of Jonny Hayes. He has | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
been missing since the Europa League tie. Mark Reynolds is out through | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
suspension. Inverness give former St Johnstone defender Brad Mackay his | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
debut. The new signing comes in to take the place of Lewis Horner, who | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
is on the bench. Switching that one and picking out Billy King. That is | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
a good delivery to the back post. And Polworth with the shot. The | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
closest we have come to a goal in this first half. Off the top of the | :19:15. | :19:29. | |
bar. Polworth with the challenge. Here is begin. | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
Trying to get away. And he has fired that one in and Aberdeen are in | :19:38. | :19:49. | |
front. The Caley Thistle players are incensed. They feel there should | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
have been a free kick. Burns with a little trip on Polworth. Went | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
unpunished. But that one was delivered into the back of the net | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
in fine form. Caley Thistle incensed. Can they get themselves | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
back into this game quickly? A good breaking run. This by Wes Burns. Can | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
he finish it? What a goal that would have been. Two horrific surging run | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
from the midfield there by Burns. The only thing missing was the | :20:37. | :20:49. | |
execution. Warren is under pressure. Adam Rooney is trying to curl it as | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
well. Williams up to the task this time. Rooney was looking to add to | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
his four goal tally so far for this season. In with the challenge there | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
and both players seem to pick up a knock. Here go Aberdeen. Try to | :21:09. | :21:26. | |
strike. Did save. The Caley Thistle keeper keeps the scoreline still at | :21:27. | :21:42. | |
1-0. Brad Mackay with the through. Aberdeen struggling to get it clear. | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
What a strike that is! Brilliant goal! It is his fifth goal of the | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
season, his first in the league, and we have seen that before from that | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
trusted left foot. The modern player from Norwich | :22:03. | :22:20. | |
getting so close to getting his first goal for Aberdeen. | :22:21. | :22:32. | |
Aberdeen trying to get players in the box. Looking for the winner. And | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
it just won't go for the Dons. It was a good blocking challenge there. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
I put the approach in the second half was excellent. We started being | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
far more aggressive, more positive. We were passing better and causing | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
them problems. Scored a brilliant goal and we had two or three | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
opportunities. I thought we were really on the front foot then but I | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
do feel that we allowed the equaliser to come. I am | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
disappointed, to be honest. I got Aberdeen were there for the taking. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
I thought defensively in preparation we were magnificent. We were the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
poorest we have been in attacking. Maybe in some hours or a day or two, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
I will be happy with the point, but at the moment, I am not. | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Stephen, are you surprised by the slow start to the season for | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Aberdeen? Yes, a little bit. It has been a slow start. Jonny Hayes is a | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
pivotal player for them. They were not happy with the first-half | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
performance but it improved in the second half and it is early days and | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
I am sure the consistency will come. Caley Thistle were upset because | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
they thought there was a foul. I would agree. I think they have every | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
right to feel aggrieved, but after that, it was a magnificent finish. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Here is the clip. I think the referee might just be a little bit | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
unsighted when the file is made. Then when the ball comes wide, it is | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
all about McGinn. They had possession and then they lost it | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
again. They had so many bodies back. I am not sure of that was a shot. He | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
was perhaps just trying to stand inside the box. It seemed to go into | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
slow motion. Disappointing for them not to get the free kick, but I | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
think they have enough bodies back there that they should be dealing | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
with that better. Richie Foran felt that his players were a bit | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
toothless. He is looking at bringing in some more free agents. When the | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
goal came, it it was some strike. In a similar vein, talking about | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
Inverness been disappointed with the way they defended, Aberdeen will be | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
really disappointed they have not dealt with this better. They have a | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
lot of bodies back there that does fail to clear the lines and then | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
some quality players. Real quality. And you heard Richie Foran saying he | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
is disappointed to only get one point. I think in a couple hours or | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
perhaps now, he will be quite happy with that. If you get a point there, | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
you will take it. We spoke about it before, this lack of goal threat | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
from Inverness. It was in evidence yesterday. It has to be a worry. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
They need to get somebody in. They do. They started the season with | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Scott Boden. He has not found his way to the goal. They seem to be | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
struggling to find the right balance, certainly in the centre | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
forward area. OK. Hearts have been building momentum in the past few | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
weeks. Two wins and a draw. Could they be the side to push Celtic in | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
the league this season? Hearts have the opportunity to go | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
second with a victory this afternoon. Jamie Walker is included, | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
the only change. Ahead of Sam Nicholson. The captain has a knee | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
injury and is replaced in central defence by Dan Seaborn. Tony Watt | :26:24. | :26:37. | |
has done very well. He had his shorts pulled. He goes down and that | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
will be a booking for diving. They just made the most of it. He looked | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
like he might well have been touched, but he was so overelaborate | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
with his dive that you made Craig Thomson's mind up for him. That | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
might work out. And he gets the shot away, just eight few inches wide of | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
the post. I don't think you necessarily meant to leave that, but | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
it almost worked out beautifully. Dougie Imrie. Manages to get the | :27:14. | :27:25. | |
ball back to the left-hand side where Gillespie picks up up against | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Paterson. A great goal for the visitors and no surprise that it is | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Ali Crawford back on the scoresheet Hamilton. It is therefore of goal of | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
the season. A terrific delivery here. And Jack Hamilton was left | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
with absolutely no chance. Jamie Walker could be in here. Goes for | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
goal. So unlucky! Deflection takes the ball into the arms of Matthews | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
and Jamie Walker hugely unfortunate not to have grabbed the equaliser | :28:09. | :28:09. | |
there. Can he find a cross, Sam Nicholson? | :28:10. | :28:23. | |
He has done. It's a good header. And it's in from Jamie Walker. Hearts, | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
at last, are on the scoresheet. Third goal of the season for Jamie | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Walker, his second in the league. And Jamie Walker is able to plant | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
that beyond Remi Matthews who really should have got a stronger hand to | :28:40. | :28:49. | |
it. It's a deep one, headed back in. Hamilton just can't get it away. | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
There goes Rossi, looking for the penalty kick. Played into the feet | :28:54. | :29:13. | |
of Rossi. John Souttar... Must be a penalty this time. Indeed it is. | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
Craig Thomson has been under pressure to award a spot kick and at | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
last he points to the spot. Hamilton feel Sam Nicholson went over to | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
easily. Craig Thomson having turned down two or three penalty appeals | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
simply couldn't turn another one away. There was definitely contact. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Sam Nicholson might have embellished that. But a penalty kick it was. | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
There will be a chance now for Jamie Walker to score his second of the | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
afternoon. Cool as you like from Walker, sending Matthews the wrong | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
way. And it's four for the season now for Jamie Walker. It's a good | :29:57. | :30:03. | |
ball for Imrie. Imrie bursting into the penalty area. Imrie goes down, | :30:04. | :30:12. | |
looking for a penalty. Well, Accies incensed once more. Here comes | :30:13. | :30:28. | |
Robbie Muirhead looking to just ensure Hearts take the three points. | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
Ooh, it's a fine goal from Sam Nicholson to wrap things up! | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
Terrific strike. That's a beautiful hit from Sam Nicholson. It's all | :30:43. | :30:52. | |
over bar the shouting, now. And the full-time whistle sounds. And a bit | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
of afters, there, between Crawford and Kitchen in the closing stages. | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
Frustrating at half-time for the players. We said the game is not won | :31:09. | :31:17. | |
over 45, its 90 minutes. And with the patients that we had and for the | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
fans as well. To go 1-0 up, their goal, the first one, Walker has a | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
free header. The second one I don't think is a penalty, having seen it | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
back. From what the boys are saying, the player said he was off balance | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
and had no option but to go down. It's frustrating when those go | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
against you. Hearts second in the table on ten points, three wins in a | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
row. Growing sense of belief? Inevitably off the back of three | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
wins there is going to be. To be honest the three games they've won | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
our games you would expect Hearts to win, Inverness, Partick Thistle and | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
Hamilton. Those are the games they have got to win. Fair credit, they | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
have gone and done that. Hamilton Accies took the lead again in this | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
match. They reject things with Massimo Donati. They did. Hearts | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
started more lively and were I far the better team. Hamilton made a | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
substitution, and Massimo denied he dropped back into a sweeper role, | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
like a Frans Battenberg role, almost. You don't see many folk | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
doing that nowadays. It meant that they had an extra man back there. | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
He's a comfortable player and reads the game well. Swept up and cleared | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
up a lot of trouble for Hamilton. Hearts played a lot of the game too | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
narrowly. I just think it's that instinct as a midfielder where you | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
can see the game in front of you, makes it easier. He did really well, | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
but this was the man that made the difference. Sam Nicholson came on | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
and really turned the game on its head. First goal, great bit of wind | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
play, gets to the byline and things out a great cross. -- digs out. When | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
the Hearts wide men play well, they invariably get a good performance. | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
Topping it off with this goal, great touch and a fantastic finish into | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
the corner. He made a difference when he came on. Do we have another | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
diving scenario at Tynecastle? This was a penalty. At the time I thought | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
it looked a bit theatrical, but there is contact on his right shin. | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
100% a penalty. And Lee Thompson is only five yards away. If Tony Watt | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
doesn't make such a meal of the dies after contact I think he gets a | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
penalty. Is this a dive? This is a dive for me. Craig Thomson's | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
position is excellent. But this is a dive, there is no contact, and when | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
you see the slow Misha and replay, you see Sam Nicholson's lead, he | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
leaves it hanging, hoping something hits it. I'll be honest, at the | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
game, to me at real-time that was a penalty. The angle Craig Thomson has | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
got, you would expect to see that there was no contact. But Massimo | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
Donati just ran across his line of vision at that point, probably the | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
reason Hearts got the penalty. 15 matches in the league last year, one | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
of the major reason they ended in the bottom six -- Dundee drew 15 | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
matches last year. Kilmarnock were the visitors. | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
COMMENTATOR: Ed Davey for weightlifter Dundee, back in | :34:43. | :34:56. | |
Scotland three years away. Craig Wighton is the other change. There | :34:57. | :35:06. | |
is a debut for Scott Boyd. Rory McKenzie returns. William Boyle on | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
to the bench. Mark O'Hara goes up. It might fall | :35:10. | :35:26. | |
for Craig Wighton. Ojha are playing in the advanced role. Sitting up for | :35:27. | :35:34. | |
Craig Wighton. Free kick in, white and with a dummy, and a goal! It's | :35:35. | :35:44. | |
his first four Dundee! Lovely play from Wighton with the dummy. High | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
into the net. It's his fifth appearance for Dundee, his first | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
goal. O'Hara enjoying playing against his former team-mates. Good | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
ball in, O'Hara with a flick. Couple of Dundee goals already. So full of | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
confidence. Lovely ball in, audacious little flick. Frizzell | :36:16. | :36:33. | |
comes short. That's a deep cross. Coulibaly with a stunning equaliser! | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
The exuberant celebration of Salomon Kalou ballet. | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
Won't have surprised his team-mates come he does it in training all the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
time. It will have caught out Dundee. It's a stunning finish. Rory | :36:48. | :36:58. | |
McKenzie, out for a couple of games with a thigh injury. Back battling | :36:59. | :37:07. | |
today. It's a great pass, ooh committees taken a touch, then get | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
the shot away. Might have been tempted to hit first-time. Yet to | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
score this season. Would have been the 12th Dundee player to do so. | :37:18. | :37:25. | |
Paul McGowan on to Wighton, good save from McDonald's, and again. | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
Double stop from the goalkeeper. Craig Wighton denied. You see | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
goalkeepers in training all the time saving a shot, getting back up to do | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
another. And here is practised definitely making perfect. Dundee | :37:39. | :37:48. | |
have drawn the last couple of games. O'Hara gets it through to Cameron | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
Kerr, looking for the breakthrough. Back onto O'Hara. Can't get the shot | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
away, El-Bakhtaoui. Dundee applying the | :37:59. | :38:12. | |
pressure, just can't quite get the clean shop they were hoping for. | :38:13. | :38:23. | |
This one into the stands. Adams goes in, and so does Gomis. That could be | :38:24. | :38:35. | |
a red card. He is hurt. Charlie Adam takes a sore one. The referee is | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
standing with card in hand. Little complaint from the Frenchman and | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
Dundee will play the remainder of the game with ten. Adam's foot was | :38:43. | :38:50. | |
down, Gomis's foot wasn't, and he's off. Dundee trying to come again. | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
Frizzell, El-Bakhtaoui. Room to shoot. Comes close again. He's been | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
a bundle of energy all day. I'm a little bit disappointed, I | :39:03. | :39:12. | |
felt after we went one down we done really well. Missed opportunities. | :39:13. | :39:21. | |
Just felt that we didn't push on further in the second half. I know | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
we were playing against ten men but it was only for eight or nine | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
minutes or so but we didn't move the ball quick enough when we had a man | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
extra. Any other time we'd be happy with a point but a little | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
disappointed. I think frustration is the word that we are looking for. We | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
started the first half-hour bright, get the goal, but maybe not clinical | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
enough. Their goal was a fantastic strike and we couldn't do much about | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
it. But overall I'm disappointed. STUDIO: There you have it, surprise, | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
surprise, a match involving Dundee ends in a draw. Paul Hartley | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
disappointed. There's no doubt. He referenced the fact that too many | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
draws was what kept them out of the top six last year. One thing that | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
will not please him is the fact his striker El-Bakhtaoui has got off the | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
scoresheet. The patron saint of people who get sent off. You feel | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
Kevin Gomez was unlucky? I do, it was not a two-footed tackle. When | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
you slide in, it is physically impossible for your foot and the | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
studs to be looking at the ground. That is a sending off all day long, | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
his foot is high. It's not high. Of course it's high! It's barely off | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
the ground. Oh, come on. The only problem is he's marginally late. His | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
studs are showing comedies caught him in the knee, red card all day | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
long. Just because I did things like tackling is banned in the game yet, | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
is it? It's not. It's only one foot, the studs are showing. Michael knows | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
what he's talking about when it comes to red card. And a lot of them | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
were rescinded! For me it is a red card all day. Our thoughts very much | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
with Kris Boyd after the sad loss of his brother during the week. He took | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
the decision to play, brave decision, you'd have to say, as | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
well. The Kilmarnock strike was a great goal from Coulibaliy. | :41:23. | :41:34. | |
Unbelievable bicycle kick, technically brilliant. He has | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
obviously got the sort of goal in the locker. He knows exactly what | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
he's going to do, watching it coming out of the air and the technique to | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
deliver that skill is perfection. Great goal to watch. If you've been | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
enjoying Scotland's game, make sure you don't miss the final chapter | :41:52. | :41:52. | |
this Thursday on BBC One. As the sole of Scottish football | :41:53. | :42:04. | |
hangs in the balance. We need to change, do things differently. Can | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
we find answers? Lets get people into the gates. That would be | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
fantastic for Scotland. Scotland's game concludes Thursday at 9pm. | :42:13. | :42:15. | |
STUDIO: St Johnstone have been hardy top six perennials these past few | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
seasons but a strange work of fate meant they lost their last four | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
encounters with Partick Thistle, would that change at Firhill | :42:31. | :42:31. | |
yesterday? One change to the Partick Thistle | :42:32. | :42:56. | |
team which lost at home to Hearts. Sean Welsh is back from suspension | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
and replaces Edwards. Illness put Alan Mannus among the subs with | :43:03. | :43:04. | |
Zander Clark taking over. Chris Millar and Liam Craig edged out | :43:05. | :43:15. | |
Blair Alston and David Wotherspoon. That Danny Devine, and Stevie | :43:16. | :43:18. | |
Lawless spinning away from Swanson, and a dangerous ball in. Saved by | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
Zander Clark. It was a shot at goal from Lawless. Ended up with the | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
perfect assist for Kris Doolan. Abdul Osman, Kris Doolan had a | :43:29. | :43:53. | |
swing. Off the head of the Daniel Devine. Twice involved on the set | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
piece. And finally the stand-in goalkeeper did well to get in the | :44:01. | :44:08. | |
way of this. Chris Millar, the Saints skipper. That's Richard | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
Foster. Danny Swanson. Good run made by Foster. Back for Stephen MacLean. | :44:16. | :44:23. | |
Decent strike from Stephen MacLean, had he kept this down he might well | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
have been scoring. At a decent height for the goalkeeper. Tomas | :44:28. | :44:29. | |
Cerny made the save. Swanson's cross, Stephen Anderson! | :44:30. | :44:41. | |
Scores from an almost impossible angle. Well, that's one for the | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
scrapbook for the defender. How did he do that? Amused goalkeeper Thomas | :44:49. | :44:58. | |
Sony couldn't quite believe that had gone in -- bemused goalkeeper Thomas | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
Cheney. Now it's Chris Erskine I, through | :45:05. | :45:19. | |
for Kris Doolan. Chris Erskine again missing the target. Story of the | :45:20. | :45:26. | |
match so far for Partick Thistle. Playing some football that's really | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
easy on the eyewitness went product. -- really easy on the eye, with no | :45:33. | :45:42. | |
end product. In from Swanson, Brian Easton. That's Chris Kane! | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
Spectacular effort from the striker. Just wouldn't quite dip quickly | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
enough for him. Onto the top of the net, it went. | :45:54. | :46:03. | |
Looking to make something happen. Not like that. Another chance for | :46:04. | :46:15. | |
Thistle. Callum Booth, ooh, it's a great ball in for Ryan Edwards, who | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
might just have seen Ziggy Gordon out of the corner of his eye, | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
because this looked a decent chance to equalise. This cute pass goes | :46:26. | :46:38. | |
straight to Swanson. Stephen MacLean terms and scores! Quality written | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
all over that one for his fifth goal of the season. Stephen Anderson with | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
the first, Stephen MacLean with the second. Unstoppable. The turn away | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
from Daniel Devine, who got wrong side. | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
Lawless tugs the shot wide. Nice build-up again from Thistle. But | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
Zander Clark hasn't really had to many serious saves to make, and that | :47:23. | :47:24. | |
tells a story. Gordon's throw flicked on by | :47:25. | :47:41. | |
Edwards, away by Anderson. Steven Lawless had a wild swing at it from | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
long range. Thistle stripping and sliding, it seems, to the bottom of | :47:47. | :47:47. | |
the table. We didn't look as creative and sharp | :47:48. | :47:58. | |
up front as we have done. Think that was down to individual battles. We | :47:59. | :48:07. | |
deserved the win. We were not under real pressure for any sustained | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
period in the game. They had a few half chances. In the main we | :48:12. | :48:17. | |
controlled large parts of the game. STUDIO: St Johnstone get that | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
Partick Thistle shaped monkey off they're back. Partick Thistle now | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
bottom of the table. Steven Anderson, you were impressed by his | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
goal-scoring prowess yesterday? Some is. Yeah, he was with me as a kid at | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
Dundee United. He's been such a formidable player for St Johnstone | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
over the years. He's a brilliant defender. He reads the game well, | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
he's very competitive. And he is rightly the club legend. Obviously a | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
cup winning hero as well. Did he pick up any goal-scoring tips from | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
new? He must have done! He can't actually believe it himself, in the | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
celebration, he's like, what just happened? Great finish from the | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
angle for a player who deserves it. A bit like Stephen McManus. Exactly, | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
he didn't learn it off him. It's been a topsy-turvy season for | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
Partick Thistle thus far. Definitely. They started the season | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
well with the League Cup, getting a lot of wins. But the league campaign | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
has been disappointing. They'll be worried to be a wee bit adrift at | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
the bottom of the table. They have a game in hand but it is against | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
Celtic and it's difficult to see them getting points there. It's a | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
position they'll be wanting to get out of quickly. Kilmarnock away | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
next, how nervous should the Partick Thistle fans be? It's far too early. | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
Having seen bits of their play they have not been playing badly but it's | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
not quite clicking in the final third. Too early to be concerned. | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
Motherwell recently lost when the Marvin Johnson who moved south, the | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
remainder of the squad headed north to Ross County. | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
Jim McIntyre has rewarded Alex Schalk's recent performances with a | :50:12. | :50:23. | |
starting position. Motherwell no longer able to call upon Marvin | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
Johnson. Ryan Bowman comes in to make his debut. Four games without a | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
win for Motherwell, three defeats followed by a 0-0 draw against | :50:33. | :50:42. | |
Dundee last time out. A deep one, looking for Christopher Cadden, it | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
goes all the way across the face of goal. He was the Player of the Month | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
for Motherwell for August. That got him into the Scotland U21 side. | :50:51. | :51:00. | |
Eventually. Keith Lasley onto Craig Clay, who was clattered by James | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
McEvilly. A rash challenge from the defender. Alan Newell comes out with | :51:06. | :51:17. | |
an early booking for McEvely. It goes wide to Franks. Woods. Comes | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
out to Michael Gardyne. Curling effort comes off the top of the bar. | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
Franks now can drill one across. And Motherwell survive. Gardyne, head in | :51:30. | :51:38. | |
his hands. Curling effort, so unlucky with the goalkeeper beaten. | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
Franks trying to connect with the man in the middle. Here is Jonathan | :51:45. | :51:53. | |
Franks. Right footed delivery. And it's Boyce who heads over the top. | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
It's a delightful cross in from Franks. Boyce got there first but | :52:01. | :52:10. | |
couldn't find the target. Cadden is up against McEvely. And he'll be | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
camphor pace. He's got the strength to hold him off as well. -- he'll | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
beat him for pace. Motherwell threatened once again. Bowman, the | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
signing mean from Gateshead, looking for a goal on debut. Gardyne now. | :52:30. | :52:42. | |
Dropped back for McEvely. Schalk, and here is Liam Boyce! And the | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
Northern Irishman gives Ross County the lead with just over an hour | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
played. He's so composed in front of goal. He has now emitted each of | :52:52. | :53:02. | |
Ross County's last six goals. Franks, Schalk, driving at the | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
defence. Boyce, teed up for Gardyne. Boyce again. Sampson saves, Schalk | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
knocks into the back of the net at the offside flag is up against the | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
Dutchman. Gardyne teeing up Boyce, it was well saved. Schalk had gone | :53:22. | :53:32. | |
too early. McDonald finds space, comes away from the goalkeeper, down | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
he goes. And Alan Newell points to the penalty spot. Scott Fox receives | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
a yellow card and there are not too many complaints from the Ross County | :53:43. | :53:52. | |
team. Lewis Moult is back and amongst the goals. Just seven | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
minutes into his return. He's been out for six weeks. Moult flicks on | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
for Scott McDonald, who got their redhead of McEvely. Could be in | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
trouble here, she's already been booked. Alan Neal is straight | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
across, a second yellow card for the left-back. And Ross County will play | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
the remaining 20 minutes with ten men. There is still time to go but | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
there hasn't been a draw here for two and a half years. 43 matches. | :54:26. | :54:43. | |
Kenny Vander with the cross. Craig Curran was crying out to be set up. | :54:44. | :54:51. | |
McDonald's ball in, Ainsworth is there. And it was a great | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
opportunity to win the game for Motherwell. | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
I thought it was a fairly even first half, didn't think there was a lot | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
in the game. I think second half we started really well. Once we got the | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
goal I thought we were well on top. Looked as though we'd go on and get | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
the next one. But obviously the sending off just turned the game on | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
its head in terms of our side of things and gave Motherwell a big | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
lift. Regardless of the sending off, probably a draw was right. Both | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
teams missed chances. If anything I felt we had to defend their chances | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
and they didn't score because we defended them. I feel we missed our | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
chances. In that respect maybe I felt we had a slight edge. But I'm | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
absolutely content with a point. Let's get straight to the sending | :55:44. | :55:54. | |
off of James McEvely, was it deserved? It is a wild tackle. He | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
gets sent off for two yellow cards, that is a red card in itself. He | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
clatters into him. You almost want to turn away. The referee is a yard | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
away. I think this is slightly harsh. It is a clumsy coming | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
together. I don't think that is too much of a yellow card. I think the | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
referee is desperate to send him off because he knows he got it wrong. | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
And McEvely knows that the first one he got away with, it was a straight | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
red. In the end it's the right decision that he's been sent off. | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
Identifying the second one was a yellow. You are in agreement this | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
time? The first half should have been a straight red, horrendous | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
challenge. I know you are a big fan of Jonathan Franks. I am indeed. A | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
massive performance. He doesn't mess about when he gets the ball in wide | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
areas. This one comes to nothing but when he gets the ball in these areas | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
he doesn't mess about. He takes his touch, get it out of his feet and | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
delivers. The sort of thing a strike at thrives on. He's direct. You know | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
what he's going to do. You do, but you don't need to think twice as a | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
striker. That's a decent ball into a good area. He did it all match | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
yesterday and was impressive. Just get it out of your feet and deliver. | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
That one should have led to a goal. Almost a carbon copy. Get it out of | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
your feet, just make yourself half a yard, stick it in the box. Fitting | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
we talk about a winter because Motherwell getting used to live | :57:30. | :57:31. | |
without Marvin Johnson who is going to be a loss. Of course. He's a | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
typical winger. He was hit and miss at times. For a club like Motherwell | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
to lose someone like him, Marvin Johnson will be a big miss. They | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
have players that can adapt, plenty who can be effective in the final | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
third. Thank you both. After all of that the Premiership table looks | :57:53. | :57:53. | |
like this. Celtic are on top with a 100% | :57:54. | :58:02. | |
record. The question is, can anyone catch them? | :58:03. | :58:12. | |
It's been a weekend of big performances. Congratulations to | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
Cammy Bell for his hat-trick of saves. Big week coming up for Celtic | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
in the Champions League as well. Away to Barcelona on Tuesday night. | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
We are back next week. Until then good night. | :58:28. | :58:29. |