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It was a goal fest the last time County and United met. United won | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
4-2. Terry Butcher will be looking for festive cheer as his side host | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Saints. Harts will be hoping to avenge their Scottish Cup drubbing | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
as they travel to Parkhead. The Buddies will be at Fir Park with | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
both sides desperate for all three points. The play-off place gets | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
interesting. And the battle for second spot heats up as Aberdeen | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
travel to Inverness in the Game of the Day. It's promising to be a | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Christmas cracker of a football schedule. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Good evening and welcome to Sportscene as we start the first | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
course of some serious festive football indulgence. A | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
mouth-watering feast over the next couple of wees and questions abound | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
in this make or break part of the season. Who will emerge triumphant | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
in the race for second place? A Hearts doomed for relegation? Who | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
will get sucked in through the trap door. In our troop door is Billy | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Dodds and the Northern Ireland manager, Michael O'Neill. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Almost half of all premiership goals will be scored in just the one | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
match. We start in the Highlands. Aberdeen were taking on Inverness. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Watching for us there was Rob McClean. | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
For his first home game as Inverness manager, Hughes making one change. | :01:57. | :02:09. | |
Williams in from the start. Hector into central defence for | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Aberdeen. Inverness seven games unbeaten. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Looking to get second spot in the premiership table. | :02:24. | :02:36. | |
Great touch from McKay. Very close. Denied the opportunity by Anderson. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Clips the edge of the post. Handball. It's a penalty for | :02:39. | :03:00. | |
Aberdeen. Vernon ducked under the ball. Scored from a corner kick last | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
weekend. And Robson scores from a penalty | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
kick this weekend. And Aberdeen are ahead. Blahhinged home by Robson. | :03:14. | :03:34. | |
McGin on the move. Vernon. Back again with Pawlett. | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
Robson. The double for Aberdeen. Two goals in, ten minutes from the | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
veteran midfielder. It's a really well judged header, drifting inside | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the post, past the despairing hands. Vernon. Make that 3-0! Pawlett. This | :03:55. | :04:17. | |
is a stunning first half from about deern. Vernon's been outstanding for | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
them up upfront -- Aberdeen. Aberdeen have a three goal | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
advantage. Inverness look shock and stunned, as | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
well they might be. And now, McGin threatens and scores. -- Mcginn. | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
Four goals for Aberdeen in 22 first half monies. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
And even already, it looks like game over. McGinn's ninth of the season. | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
Christmas coming early for the Dons fans. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Looking for a quick response. It will have to be something dramatic | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
to turn this around. Tremarco. . McKay scores. | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
Just what they wanted. Making the scoreline look a little bit better. | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
Scramble in the six yard box. McKay with the finishing touch. His 16th | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
of the season. Anderson. Long ball from Tremarco. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Dorran. McKay. Ross. McKay is in again. Langfield. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
It's two in ten minutes for the Inverness top goal scorer! 17 goals | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
in 19 games for him. It's a remarkable return and it's brought | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
this game back to life for Caley Thistle. Dancing around Langfield | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
and he's still got a bit to do. Manages to squeeze that past Hector. | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
From nil four at half time, now two nurse. Tremarco. 's corner. It could | :06:26. | :06:37. | |
so easily have been 4-3. What an amazing game in the Highland | :06:38. | :07:04. | |
capital. Warren. Graham Shinnie in the 90th minute 3. An incredible | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
Caley Thistle comeback from 4-0 to 4-3. The first half shows what we | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
are capable of, second half showed me there is still a lot to be done | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
here, but overall the players worked haar for the points -- hard for the | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
three points. We stay undefeated. To beat Inverness twice home and away | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
is good going. I just didn't anticipate the manner in which we | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
did it. You cannot win a match if you concede four in the second half. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Second half we showed what Inverness were all about, we were about spirit | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
and were on the front foot and almost pulled it off.ade cell to the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
players, pride still in the dressing room and hopefully in defeat, I'm | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
still very proud of them. First of all, we should say an astonishing | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
game, Billy and a great advert for the Scottish premiership? Brilliant. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Wish I was doing it yesterday for the radio, but John had that lucky | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
job. I must admit, it was just two teams in the form of their life. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Inverness, you you know what you get from them, confidence, team spirit, | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Aberdeen, good blend of youth and experience and it was no surprise | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
that Inverness ended up coming back yesterday. Aberdeen got four goals | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
up and you still couldn't write Inverness off. It had everything in | :08:30. | :08:41. | |
it. Michael, welcome to Sportsscene. McGinn and McKay, their record is | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
fantastic. McKay 37 league goals, McGinn 29 and one cup goal, a total | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
of 74 with McKay's seven cup goals. Must be great to have them here? | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Great stats there. I wasn't aware it was as high as that, but two players | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
who've been consistently good. Made a huge impact last season and again | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Billy particularly doing it this season with 17 goals and Niall | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
scoring a variety of goals, plays in many positions, centrely or wide. We | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
saw him yesterday scoring from the wide area, so long may that | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
continue. Two goals from McKay yesterday but first, McGinn, how | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
impressed were you by him? Playing off the left yesterday which I think | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
is his favourite position. Good movement from Vernon to take the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
centre back away. He's got himself against the centre back and there's | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
only going to be one winner as space opens up for him. We see him there. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
That's instinct isn't it, to drift into that space? Yes. Let them go. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Exactly. Find a wee bit of space and he's sharp enough to poke it in. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Nice goal this because he is centre again and picks the ball up, nice | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
bunkup play off his chest, but straightaway, he knows where the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
space is. Hector steps up and Billy knows where he wants it. We see the | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
quality and composure. Good finish. 17 goals for McKay this season which | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
is remarkable in itself in 19 games for Inverness. He's played four | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
times for Northern Ireland, still to hit the back of the net for Northern | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Ireland, but how good do you think he can be? I think he's a player | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
that continues to improve. I think week-by-week. The statistics, as we | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
showed earlier, are exceptional. He probably deserved more of a chance | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
than he's had, if I'm honest and certainly I intend to give him that | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
chance at the start of the Euros. Can he bring that form for Inverness | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
on to the international scene? It's different in the sense that he may | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
not get as many chances as he would for us. He's at the top of his game. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
He's come back here, come up to Scotland, had a couple of | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
disappointments at earlier clubs and has rebuilt his career up here. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Doing a great job for Caley Thistle. Dundee scored at least four goals | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
per match lately. You can understand that Ross County travel toed to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Tannadice with trepidation. John Barnes is the commentators. | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
One change as the rightback spots are at earn negotiated -- at earn | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
negotiated. Injury means one change as well for | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
County. Trying to set up Armstrong. | :11:37. | :11:56. | |
A fine intervention from McClean. Had to time that tackle to | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
perfection. It was Quinn who was caught in possession in the middle | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
of the park. And United almost punishing them. | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Lovely Pass through for Robertson and it was in the net, but the flag | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
is up. Offside. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Not quite sure whether it was against Robertson or Graham. It will | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
be the full back. Kerry with the free kick. Awkward | :12:29. | :12:42. | |
one. Off the bar! Scary moments there for the Dundee | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
United defence, in particular the goalkeeper. That lethal left foot | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
deceiving everyone. Graham looking to add to his tally | :12:53. | :13:13. | |
for the season. He's got three so far. But straight at the keeper. | :13:14. | :13:30. | |
He really needed to hit the target there, but good, creative build-up | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
from Ross County. That is a great crossfield pass. | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
Wilson does well to get there. It is Graham! And Fraser wins the contest | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
with the big striker again. Excellent delivery in by Wilson. And | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
a good stop by the keeper. Not a bad effort from John Rankin. | :13:59. | :14:19. | |
He has had a few in recent weeks. Just to hide this time. -- just too | :14:20. | :14:31. | |
high. A double substitution. Gold and Graham come off. | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
What an introduction that would have been, within 30 seconds of coming | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
on. Jackie McNamara changes his strikeforce and almost produces a | :14:50. | :14:50. | |
goal. Good -- David good Willie should | :14:51. | :15:04. | |
have kept that one down. Here is Goodwillie. Armstrong. And | :15:05. | :15:42. | |
Dundee United are in front. Gary Mackay-Steven eventually finds a | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
hole in the Ross County rearguard. Set up by Armstrong. Gary | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Mackay-Steven with his seventh goal of the season, his fifth in the last | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
five matches. And it could secure six wins in a row for United. I | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
think the players are disappointed to come away with nothing today, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
because they kept Dundee United very quiet, from the point of view that | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
they hadn't scored eight goals up until we make a mistake. We kept | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
plugging away, we were very patient and we got our just rewards in the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
end. They were trying time wasting at times, but we kept going in the | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
second half, and then towards our own fans and we got what we | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
deserved. Younger viewers may not remember that you were a Dundee | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
United player in the late 80s and early 90s. How impressed have you | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
been by your former side? They have been fantastic, they are the good | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
news story in the SPL this season. Not only with the young players that | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
were already there, but the players he has signed, they just have a real | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
flair about their game, a real openness about how they play. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Yesterday, they had 21 corners, which shows you how badly they tried | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
to win the game. They are on a great run, but he will be as happy with a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
1-0 victory as he will be with the goals they have scored in recent | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
weeks. Eight hard-working performance by Ross County but did | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
they let themselves down with the goal? Well, they thought they could | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
go on and win it. It is a forward move from Ross County, and because | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
the defenders are so high up, the United players have the quality to | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
expose you. That is the area where he might have been, and it is a | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
lovely pull-back and a great finish by Gary Mackay-Steven. They are | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
probably the one team, along with Celtic, that counterattack better | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
than anyone else. TUC Dundee United as the favourites to finish second? | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
-- TUC. I think they are in with a chance. Aberdeen have more | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
experience in key areas. They will have to have a dip at some point so | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the real challenge will be to manage them through that but at the moment, | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
confidence is sky high and I sure they will be looking forward to the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
festive period, the fixtures come thick and fast. How nervous should | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Ross County be about display of trapdoor at the bottom the table? -- | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
about this play-off trapdoor. Well, they are there, but they proved it | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
last year, they went on a run and got themselves up the league but you | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
can see they are losing confidence. They nearly got some yesterday with | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
a great result but it turned out not to be the case. They have the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
experience to get away with it, they have had a big turnover with players | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
but they need a result. Plenty more to come tonight, plus there are | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
extended highlights all the games at the BBC sport website. A busy week | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
for Santa and for us. On Boxing Day, join us for all of the | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Sportscene results at 4pm and we will bring you all the premiership | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
highlights from Boxing on Friday, and 11pm start on BBC One. Next, we | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
are off to Celtic Park, where hearts were hoping to avoid a repeat of | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
their recent league cup hammering. Pukki with another chance to | :19:20. | :19:41. | |
impress. Hearts will be looking for some redemption after the Scottish | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
cup humbling against the same opposition. It could be a long shift | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
for Colin Paterson upfront. He has squeezed it through for Kris | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
Commons. The man who scored a hat-trick against Hearts in the cup | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
tie is denied by Jamie MacDonald. He is probably anticipating a busy | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
afternoon, is the Hearts no-one. -- number one. | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
The goalkeeper has got a touch to that. It is a good job he did. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Celtic still come. Anthony Stokes with this chance, the | :20:29. | :20:42. | |
first glaring opportunity of the game, coming on eight minutes. It is | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
a great save by MacDonald. Gary Lock, not much to work with as the | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Hearts manager. The last time they won here in the league, it was | :21:01. | :21:01. | |
almost a team of stars. Good save again. He has actually had | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
a pretty decent season. A good ball and MacDonald again to | :21:08. | :21:37. | |
deny Joe Ledley. Either side of the goalkeeper, that is a goal. Take | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
nothing away from the slave, he had to make it. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Celtic unbeaten so far this season. They looked like they will maintain | :21:45. | :21:57. | |
it, that is the target Neil Lennon and his staff have said. And what a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
turn by Kris Commons, and guess who is there again. Jamie MacDonald | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
comes out on top in this duel between him and Commons. | :22:08. | :22:19. | |
Well, that should have been a Hearts throw, Dylan McGavin making that | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
point. -- dilemma gallon. It came off Pukki last. | :22:29. | :22:40. | |
It is a great ball for Kris Commons. The slayer of Hearts does it again. | :22:41. | :22:53. | |
Good finish at the angle, what a ball from Brown. Commons across | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
MacDonald, who could do nothing this time. And Celtic's top scorer comes | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
to the fore again. It has been over a year since Celtic | :23:02. | :23:14. | |
last lost a league game here. James Forrest, dazzling on the wing. In | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
towards Ledley and it is Jamie MacDonald at his near post. Hearts | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
have defended resolutely this afternoon, it hasn't been a walk in | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
the park for Neil Lennon and his team. | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Headed off the line by Commons from McGowan. That would have been quite | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
sensational, Hearts's first real attempt on goal. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Georgia Samurai is, on as a sub, one of the contract rebels. He squeezes | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
it through to James Forrest who finishes it off. -- Giorgio | :23:54. | :24:07. | |
great finish by James Forrest with the outside of the boot. That makes | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
things more comfortable for Celtic, who took a long time to break | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
through the Hearts resistance today. James Forrest, on as a half-time | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
sub, and it is 2-0 to the champions. After the result couple of weeks | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
ago, we were all hurt badly, and we knew that coming here today, we | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
would have to change the way we normally play. I like to see a | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
Hearts team on the front foot, but we had to learn our lesson from the | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
last time and I felt the boys acquitted themselves brilliantly | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
today. They obviously made it hard for us, we couldn't really make | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
accurately to break them down as much as we would like, but three | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
points into Christmas is nice. So, Celtic, unbeaten so far, grinding | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
out a victory. A bit of a flat game, Hearts cautious after the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
seven -0 hammering, but it took sitting into a whole new level | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
yesterday. -- 7-0. But I can understand it, after that one of cup | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
game, you can see: Paterson, that was his starting place. They needed | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
a lot over 90 minutes not to get picked up and Celtic eventually got | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
the breakthrough, but that is the way Hearts set their stall out. A | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
huge amount of bodies behind the ball, no outfall at times, but they | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
frustrated Celtic for long periods. They get to half-time at nil half | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
full -- 0-0 and they think job done. Did they have no choice but to play | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
that way? They could have had a focal point and one up, but Celtic | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
pin you back. They nearly nicked an equaliser in the last minute, so | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
Gary Locke was trying to say, they didn't want to lose any more | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
confidence than they already had but it didn't look good for a Hearts | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
fan. A touch of forging the Celtic when it came to the Commons goal. -- | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
fortune. Yes, it is played of Pukki, but the linesman on that side is in | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
the opposition half, so it is a long way to see it. But they are still | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
set up, there are a lot of bodies behind the ball. What they don't do | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
is get out to the ball. We see here, Walker sees Fisher on the right-hand | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
side, that is fine, but he takes that little step and it is their own | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
doing. Just that little Campbell to go and face up the ball and that was | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
the downfall for Hearts. They nearly got through it, just that bit of | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
inexperience. The distance is too great and it actually makes Scott | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Brown's mind up for the past and it is a good finish. Are Hearts down? | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
It would take a minor miracle, with the boys they have got and the | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
amount of points they had to catch, it is too much to ask. For almost | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
two months, Kilmarnock fans have been deprived of the site of a home | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
win. A leaky defence hasn't helped. They started the day the bottom, but | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
with Kris Boyd and Chris Johnston upfront, always the chance of goals. | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
They took a Partick Thistle side where, apart from Kris Doolan, no | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
player had scored and -- in open place in September. Could their | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
fortunes improve on the road at Rugby Park? No doubting Partick | :27:56. | :28:04. | |
Thistle brought a freshness to the premiership this season. Not taking | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
chances is an issue. Lawler's shot failing to hit the target. | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
At the other end, calls for hand pal shrugged off. | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
-- handball. As the match crept towards half time, it looked like | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
0-0 until Chris Johnston took his chance to put Kilmarnock 1-0 in | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
front. The break of the ball falling kindly and the 19-year-old with his | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
third goal in four games. For Kris Doolan, it was six goals so | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
far this season going into this match. Number 7-4 minutes after the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
restart. Partick Thistle's Christmas would be | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
looking less festive without him. In recent times, he's carried the | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
goal-scoring responsibility single handedly. | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
A real feature of Partick's play has been the threat they posed down the | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
flanks. Great wing play from Higginbotham and the ball found | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
Lawler but he missed the target again. | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
Kilmarnock new a victory would see them leapfrog the visitors at the | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
bottom end of the table. This effort too hot for Fox to handle. | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
In the 73rd minute, the knock down from the free kick landed at the | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
feet of Jackson Irvine. His last effort touched in by Kris Boyd and | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
Kilmarnock had the lead. The instinct, no doubt about it, the | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
former Rangers striker claiming his ninth of the campaign. | :29:45. | :29:56. | |
A superb piece of passing play from Partick Thistle. A great stop and | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
the manager Alan Johnson knew just how valuable three points would be. | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
He had his keeper to thank before the end. | :30:07. | :30:14. | |
Sampson flew to the rescue. You look at the league table, three | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
points off Hibs, a lot of games we came in over the festive period and | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
we can go higher up the table. I staid to the lads, we are still in a | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
good position but we have to start taking chances. I thought we | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
dominated the game, and to be fair, Sampson was man-of-the-match again. | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Plenty of chances, Billy. You were at the match yesterday. Should | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
Partick Thistle have taken something from it? Yes. I really enjoyed the | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
game. We have said that to many times about them this season, all | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
the football, create chances, dealen's scoring goals now so you | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
would take him out the equation -- Doolan. They are just not winning | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
games. Can't seem to hit the target too regularly. What was the defining | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
moment for you? No doubt one each. Higginbotham down the left hand | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
side. Mis-hit there and you see the other angle, it Faws to Lawlers. -- | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
falls to. They fraught a freshness to the | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
premiership this season. It's getting to the point where they need | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
somebody else to take on goal-scoring responsibility, not | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
just Doolan? I think so. There's been a lot of, I suppose, | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
responsibility on him and he has scored goals this season. I saw him | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
in the First Division and was impressed last season and they have | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
done well to do as well as they have done at this point. I think | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
Archibald will be maybe looking at the January opportunity to maybe | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
bring one or two in just to help the team that he has now in the second | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
half of the season. How big a win was that for Kilmarnock, Billy? | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
Huge. I mean, Kris Boyd has been doing it, I think that's three goals | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
in the last three games, a good return. He led the line well, it | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
wasn't just about scoring goals, but they didn't play will, but Alan | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
Johnston will say they played better. It evened itself out. Huge | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
three points with that Kris Boyd goal. . Inverness and Aberdeen | :32:23. | :32:30. | |
dualing it out for second place. Motherwell are below the radar this | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
season. St Mourn never lost to Motherwell at | :32:36. | :32:42. | |
Fir Park during the Stuart McCall era, could they keep that going? -- | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
St Mirren. Motherwell look to record | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
back-to-back victories for the first time since September. Harkins | :32:51. | :33:01. | |
starts. Corner. Header. Good save pushed | :33:02. | :33:13. | |
away. Ramsden was up. | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
Back in again. Good corner. Well attacked by | :33:17. | :33:26. | |
Ramsden. Got it on target. Good one-handed stop. | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
Hamill. In again. Well worked. Advanced | :33:34. | :33:46. | |
position. Little chip across. Good goalkeeping. Raced off his line. | :33:47. | :34:02. | |
Good passing play again. Ainsworth. McGregor. Once, twice. Scores! | :34:03. | :34:21. | |
What a classy opening. Four goals in his first ten appearances for | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
Motherwell. Just one since and he's found the score sheet today. | :34:26. | :34:34. | |
Simply lashed the ball. Classy goal from Motherwell. | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
Ahead after 51 minutes. Scruffy from Saints. Hasly with the | :34:43. | :34:51. | |
intercept. Opt attack again. Sutton gets on. 2-0! One touch. Motherwell | :34:52. | :35:05. | |
and Ainsworth who scored on his debut, scores for Motherwell as a | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
Motherwell player. Nestled it in at the post. Nothing the keeper could | :35:13. | :35:22. | |
do. McGinn. | :35:23. | :35:33. | |
Something out offal nothing there for St Mirren. McGinn with the | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
follow-up shot. Lennon there. Oh, a chance. 3-0! | :35:36. | :36:04. | |
What a great finish. Again, one touch from Motherwell. How about | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
that for a finish? ! It's his first double for | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
Motherwell. Motherwell are 3-0 ahead. | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
Style and swagger. Ramsden. Lawson. Under control. Drives it. | :36:18. | :36:32. | |
That was done in style today. I thought last week's game was | :36:33. | :36:48. | |
scrappy. Today, really good performance, clean sheet, three | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
really good goals and a bit more like us. Motherwell made better | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
decisions all over. Anier today was absolutely terrific. That caused us | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
a great deal of problems. In the past, it's something we've handled | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
well. It's pleasing that we have another game come Wednesday to try | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
and put that right and we must get back to doing what we do best. I was | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
there yesterday, Anier very much the star of the show, Michael, and a | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
player that you have some previous knowledge of? Yes, when I was | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
manager at Shamrock Rovers, we played a European Champions League | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
qualifying game and he played there. He was their best player. He is a | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
threat and not only off crosses, but he's strong, he has good technique. | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
A great finish off as well on his right hand side and I think he | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
challenges all the time. He can go in behind, he leads a line well as | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
well. He's direct. Not played every game this season. Left him out a | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
couple of times, but a good replacement. That's all technically | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
wrong, but so right. An unbelievable finish. You see him score the first | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
one which is right foot and the second was I which is left. Anier | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
was in the stands yesterday watching him score the goals. | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
They want Anier back in mid-January, his old team, but Motherwell will | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
presumably do all they can to tray and keep him? They will. He's scored | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
a lot of goals for them. They'll probably find somebody, if he ends | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
up having to go back, but they have been a big find for him. His return | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
was a lot of goals which is a good thing for the club. They struggled | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
for a bit. Stuart's done well to pick him up. The result for St | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
Mirren? Bit flat yesterday, then Dundee coming own Boxing Day? Danny | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
had a bit of pressure early on in the season and, to be fair, he's dug | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
in and turned them around. Motherwell is a difficult place to | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
go, so he won't be too concerned. He'll look forward to the next game | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
and it will be a difficult one. I like watching St Mirren play, they | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
play good football and should be a good game on Boxing Day. | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
Motherwell's great contenders for second place? Yes, but I think it | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
will be difficult for them this year with the turnover of players. They | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
might lose Anier and for me, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness are that bit | :39:18. | :39:19. | |
stronger. We shall see. Despite the arrival of | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
Terry Butcher, Hibs remain very much at bottom six. That wouldn't change, | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
no matter what the result at St Johnston yesterday. Hibs need | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
someone to score goals regularly for them. They only managed ten in the | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
league all season. St Johnston only scored six league goals on their | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
travels and have drawn a blank in the last two, both of which ended in | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
defeat. Chances of a 12-goal thriller, looked slim yesterday at | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
Easter Road. 2013 has been frustrated for Hibs with just two | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
league wins in the last 12 months and again, they struggled to find | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
the net. Davidson was struggling after an | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
early knock and was replaced by former Hib mate. | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
This was a late lunge on Cairney. A straight red shown by Alan Muir. | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
Little option for the man in the middle. Many Hibs fans were | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
surprised wealther spoon was allowed to leave in the summer to join his | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
hometown club. Almost set up an opening for May. Strong defending by | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
the Hibs rear guard keeping the 21-year-old at bay. A good cross | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
from Wetherspoon but an except lent block by Scott Robinson. | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
-- except lent. -- excellent. This cross was kept out. | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
Robertson with the cross. Teenager Jason Cummings almost had a | :41:03. | :41:13. | |
dream start coming within inches of this cross from Liam Craig. Hibs | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
boss Terry Butcher watched from the stands as he served a one-match | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
touchline ban and Collins almost gave him an early cross mass | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
present. Foster with a cross, Manus at full | :41:32. | :41:42. | |
stretch. One final piece of drama. . Challenge from Easton. A tangle of | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
legs but the referee says no penalty, so no goals at Easter Road. | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
We 'll look back on it as a great point. I thought for the last hour, | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
we were magnificent. Hibs had very few chances and I think in the first | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
half, we had the best chance. Couldn't get enough on the ball, | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
May, to stick it in. St Johnston went a man down, were very resolute. | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
With May upfront they are a threat even on his own. The defenders | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
worked well today. Full credit to Tommy Wright and the team. They | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
withstood a lot of pressure from us and we couldn't get the killer ball. | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
Some sad news tonight about the death of Hibs youth player David | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
Paul. Also a young Hearts junior player Jimmy Skinner who died during | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
a match in Edinburgh. Our thoughts are with the families this evening. | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
What was your view of the sending off yesterday? I thought at the time | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
it was harsh, to be honest, but having seen the tackle, it's | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
wreckless, to say the least. Just calm on? Yes, I feel sorry for | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
Paddy, you see when the ball comes back, his reaction is to get the | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
ball back. You see the tackle from the other angle, it's the trailing | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
leg that's coming in here, Billy? Wreckless and out of control. But it | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
looks worse than what it actually is. I don't know what Tommy Wright | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
will be thinking. Fallon the other week, you think that will never be | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
that, and he takes 20 seconds off it. | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
Should the ref make any allowances given the fact he's just come on and | :43:34. | :43:40. | |
it's a clumsy challenge or is it a follow-through? Me maybe should make | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
an allowance. I think when a player is sent off, around the halfway line | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
as well, there's nothing in the challenge, you know, it's not going | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
to effect a goal-scoring opportunity or anything like that there. I do | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
think that obviously the ref's under a bit of pressure to follow the | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
letter of the law and he is off the ground, so because of that, | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
obviously, the ref's given him the red card. Hibs had a penalty shout | :44:02. | :44:11. | |
turned down. T Johnston had a got keeper who was inspiring yesterday? | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
Yes, he played very well, has done consistently well for St Johnston, | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
made a number of good saves. His defender does well as well. This is | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
a great save, great reaction. Never expects the ball to come off his | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
defender. This is the puck of the punch, good | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
header, good save. I think Alan consistently has been excellent in | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
the SPL since he's come here. One thing he has in his character, every | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
time he's asked to step up a level, he adjusts and does well. In the | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
game he's played for me, he does well. Signs of life for Hibs but not | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
any more? I say it every week, step by step. They still need to pie a | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
couple of more quality play players. I think he's trying to pick your | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
team for you? ! McKay, McGinn... He might do a better job to be fair! To | :45:06. | :45:14. | |
judge Terry is obviously when he's eight to ten months in the job when | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
he has chance to make changes. After all that, the Scottish premiership | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
table looks exactly like this: Celtic ten points clear at the top. | :45:23. | :45:42. | |
Well, Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, Celtic are on top, | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
but enough about that, plenty of questions remain unanswered about | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
how this season will unfold. Join us for the next chapter of the Scottish | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
premiership Christmas story on Friday. Until then, from all of us | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
here at sport scene, do have a very merry Christmas. Good night. -- | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
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