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This could be something sensational. Write out of the top drawer. That is

outstanding. Or, yes. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable. What a

finish. Right here, right now, this is history. Good evening. Goals are

a precious thing some weeks. Tonight they are a valuable come on the --

valuable commodity. The big story of the week was Heart of Midlothian

appointing Ian Cathro as their head coach to replace Robbie Neilson.

Debate has raged all week. The first game would be a real test, against

Rangers at Ibrox. Two changes to the Rangers team that

beat Aberdeen last week. Danny Wilson comes in. James Tavernier

weighs in midfield. Ian Cathro's first team selection does not hold

surprises. It is the same as the team picked by caretaker coach Jon

Daly for last week's draw in Dingwall.

Kenny Miller. Debut at Ibrox for Ian Cathro.

Mackay with the corner. Patterson's header away. Wallace has a goal and

that is not far away. Their skipper digging in. This came through a

group of hearts players and just swerved wide. Lovely diagonal from

Wilson. Kenny Miller has missed a big chance to get Rangers in front.

Cannot quite believe he has not taken the opportunity. He had a

wonderful first touch. But the second touch will disappoint him.

Great save from Foderingham. And Hearts have the lead, or have they?

Because Rangers are appealing for offside. And the cheers from the

Rangers fans indicate that referee John Beaton is taking advice. What

is the decision? Offside given. The goal will not stand. Big moment in

the match. Great save from Foderingham to prevent the own goal

initially. Was he being played onside by Lee Wallace at the near

post? That would be Hearts contention that the officials have

made up their mind and the goal does not stand. And Hearts were in school

celebration mode as well. -- where an full celebration mode.

It is Jamie Walker. It was always swerving wage. Half a chance.

Probably wishing at this stage she had tried the shot across the

goalkeeper. Mark Warburton and DDB are looking to build on that win

against Aberdeen last week. -- David Weir. Tavernier is enjoying his

three attacking role. Jack Hamilton made the save. Calum Paterson

blocking the follow-up attempt from Jason Holt. Sliding end was Andy

Halliday. Free kick given. But what an opportunity for Lee Wallace to

get Rangers in front. Bags of time to pick his spot. Hamilton made the

save. Lovely pass from Kenny Miller. And the game stays goalless. Danny

Wilson. Jason Holt shrugs off the challenge from Curry but the free

kick is given against Paterson. The two former team-mates not seeing eye

to eye at the moment. Referee John Beaton was certainly close enough to

make that decision. Almost half an hour gone. Two in the wall for

Hearts. James Tavernier with the free kick. Rob Kiernan. 1-0. It is

Rob Kiernan's first goal for Rangers. The breakthrough in the

29th minute. It is a beautifully flighted free kick from Tavernier.

First there was Kiernan. And the header flashing past Jack Hamilton

and Rangers, having beaten Aberdeen last weekend, looking to pull off

the double, and they are a goal up against Hearts, banks to Rob

Kiernan. So inviting, the delivery from Tavernier stop Hearts did not

get in a serious challenge for that. Kitchen. Don Cowie. It is all

opening up for your heads to have a crack at goal. Fortunately for

Rangers that goal bound effort struck goal-scorer Cunanan, and spun

well away from the danger zone. Kiernan's Pleasence flicked on by

Gardiner. Dangerous. Outcomes Jack Hamilton and his credence batters

off Gardiner. That could have gone anywhere. Thankfully for Hearts it

went well wide but a sigh of relief from Paterson and from Hamilton as

well. Muirhead on the attack. Here is Walker. Down went Walker. Yellow

card for diving. There seems to be some contact the from Jason Holt.

John Beaton did not think so. He saw that as simulation. Lee Wallace with

the throw missed by Rossi. Barrie McKay scorers. Six minutes into the

second half and that is 2-0. It is a horrific bit of defending from

Hearts, this. Firstly missed by Igor Rossi. Hamilton horribly exposed. It

is a toe poke from Barrie McKay to give Rangers a 2-0 advantage.

A real spring in the step of Barrie McKay. He is taken out by Paterson.

Yellow card is Sean to the Hearts right back. Just beaten by the pace

of Mackay. Tavernier it with the free kick. Garner try to flick that

end. Calum Paterson was doing the defending. Looked as if the highest

defender might have got a touch on that as well. Brilliant free kick

from Tavernier. Not a great touch from the substitute. Barrie McKay

vented through. Can Martyn Waghorn puts the icing on the cake? No. Jack

Hamilton standing up to make the save. Big opportunity stop and

almost another one for Tavernier. That is Barrie McKay. Waghorn knows

he should have been scoring here. A massive opportunity to make it 3-0.

Waghorn, who has scored only one Premiership goal all season long,

battles on the opening weekend. Strong play from Kitchen. Tony Watts

getting some treatment from the Rangers fans. His shot deflected off

Kiernan. Spinning out harmlessly in to the gloves of Foderingham. Well

up for the header was Garner. It is Martyn Waghorn who tried to squeeze

that passed Hamilton at the near post. The goalkeeper in making sure

there was no gap this -- no gap to threads that through.

Sets himself up for the shot but feels to hit the target. Story of

the day for Hearts. Garner off. Cut inside and drags the

shot wide. The goals were flowing for Waghorn last season. It has been

an injury interrupted campaign, this one, and the old confidence is just

not fair. There goes the final whistle at

Ibrox. Back-to-back wins for the home team against Aberdeen and

Hearts, two of the teams competing for second spot. Rob Kiernan's first

goal for Rangers and Ian Cathro's first match as Hearts head coach

ends in defeat. Mark Warburton said, they were good as a team.

Yesterday's performance, where did that rank in terms of Rangers

performances this season? It could be their best performance of the

season. It was an excellent response. Eating Aberdeen, showing

character. Yesterday, a top performance. It could have been a

different game. Huge moment when Garner -- when Hearts had a goal

ruled out. It is wrong. Lee Wallace, his left foot is six inches from the

touchline. Don Cowie is one metre from the touchline. At the moment he

strikes the ball Don Cowie is onside. You make the point it is the

wrong decision for the referee. It is the linesman. You see it from the

highlights that he has made the call and that is the wrong one. I have

sympathy because it happened so quickly, but by the time Don Cowie

puts the ball in the net, Lee Wallace has stepped out, but it is

such a big call, and it is pivotal. Goals change games. If Hearts School

at that point, 1-0 at Ibrox, the close gets anxious, but Rangers did

not dwell on that and went on to dominate.

His performance was more like last season, he gave Paterson a tough

game yesterday but has not reached the levels of last year. This is an

unbelievable pass, great movement from Waghorn but I think last season

he would have scored this, another good touch and for me, he gets it

there, inside to the right, does not get that job perfect, back onto the

stronger left foot but at this point, Hearts have one man on the

line and Hamilton is metres from him. Struggling for confidence? He

had an impact when he came on but this was horrendous, Miss timing

that header. The danger is behind him, McKay, do not get sucked into

that and lose the ball. That was brutal. That incident with Rossi, he

has to look better but he can see this coming all the way and he must

realise that Barrie McKay is behind him, he cannot run himself onto the

ball. We saw that conference between the officials because of that

disallowed goal, and Walker has been booked for diving and today?

Horrendous. He still has not made his mind up. Three seconds between

the challenge and actually deciding it was a yellow card, terrible

decision. And Jamie Walker had a lot of stick earlier in the season for

diving and you wonder if his reputation is proceeding him, 100%

record wrong decision. What about the angle of the referee? Doesn't

matter? Even looking through, Walker will realise that his legs are

across them and even afford a foul, how that can be deemed as a dive and

a yellow card is beyond me? You expect that to be rescinded. Huge

debate about the new Hearts Head Coach. What did we learn yesterday?

Nothing, one game, difficult game, these are not going to be the games

that will define the first couple of games of his career, it is an

exciting appointment and is understandably going to be questions

hanging over him at this stage but the game at Ibrox will not be the

one that will be posing too many spotlights upon what will happen.

Aberdeen had not beaten St Johnstone in the league at Pittodrie in almost

two years. Both sides in that group of four teams jostling for position

behind Celtic. Captain Brian Jack returns from

suspension, starting at right back with Shane Logan on the bench due to

a slight foot injury. Other than that, the same team that scored five

against Kilmarnock on Tuesday. Tommy Wright is without the services of

Danny Swanson after he picked up an injury, replaced by Chris came

whilst Steven McLean makes his 100th appearance for the club. That will

come for Davidson and he has space to drive into. Releases Steven

McLean. Davidson continues his run. And slices the effort just wide of

the target. He scored last week against Inverness, he started the

move and almost finished it. Aberdeen will have taken much

confidence from the victory over Kilmarnock. Maddison, to Pawlett, he

was a goal-scorer on Tuesday night also. Maddison clever with the ball

at his feet. The corner drifted in and Considine should have tucked

that away, six yards out. The free header. He has not scored at

Pittodrie since October 20 11. Niall McGinn, quiet first half by her

standards. Hayes. Easily knocked away for Pawlett. That was close

enough to have Clark scrambling across his goal. McLean has to drift

wide. Foster, former Aberdeen player. Wotherspoon across, not out

by Jack. Aberdeen might be able to break. It is McGinn to Maddison,

moving the ball quickly, Rooney. Hayes. Maddison once more. Looking

to find the gap in the defence. And on picked the lock before half-time

and, in fact, Kevin Clancy has blown the whistle. Right when Pawlett was

about to strike that ball. McLean awaits. The cross is blocked. It

drops for Hayes. He worked the space with that shot. Easy enough for

Clark. Closed down but shifted onto the right foot. Tommy Wright's side

have the best defensive away record in the league, just seven goals

conceded. Stockley with the header but, again, straight at Clark and

they cannot find a way past the goalkeeper. Derek McInnes does not

have the best record against his old club, Aberdeen winning only one of

their last seven. Free kick. Anderson, knocked over the top by

Cummins. Clear sightings of the goal have been few and far between. That

was a good one. Wotherspoon. Cummins trying to hold his run and

Wotherspoon comes inside and finds McLean. Over the top by Joe Lewis.

Decent strike. It was dipping and wobbling all over the place. Cummins

with the header, MacLean will that. The backpass from Shinnie. And it

trickles inches wide. Well, so nearly a costly error from Shinnie.

There has only been one goal in both previous meetings this season. That

came late. And Kenny McLean takes down Wotherspoon, yellow card for

the Aberdeen midfielder. And Wotherspoon might fancy it from this

range. David Wotherspoon! He is denied by the post-! And well

knocked away. It is still on for Saint Johnstone. Safely into the

arms of Lewis. That is the closest anybody has come to a goal. The last

legal from Wotherspoon came against Aberdeen back in April in that three

nil victory. Here he is again. He might have another go. This time it

is well wide. And it looks like it will be defences on top in the end

at Pittodrie. It is a game we wanted to win. But we did not do enough and

I thought we more than merited the point, I think St Johnstone had a

good shape about them, they offered a real threat on the counterattack

and they got bodies forward. We needed to look after the ball and

try to show more quality and craft to find the answer. I thought we

allowed ourselves to get frustrated and chase the game. When maybe with

more thought to the game might have helped us win. To limit them to very

few chances, they have had to change their shape at half-time because of

how well we were doing and throughout the game we created more

clean cut chances. It was almost deja vu with the free kick from

David. Hitting the post. And the keeper manages to keep their blood.

Unfortunately -- fortunately for us, they did not get the late winner but

we could have sneaked one at the end, really pleased to get one point

and others Ibrox, we should have one and got the draw on the same with

Hearts. Full credit to the players. Some billing from the home fans,

clearly frustrated by the draw against Saint Johnstone. Is that

understandable? You must take into consideration where he has taken

Aberdeen from, languishing at the bottom of the table and up against a

very tough St Johnstone side. And the fact they have won 5-1 during

the weekend... During the week at Kemal act as a part to play in that,

they allied a lot of space. In behind for Aberdeen to exploit.

Aberdeen have the players that will do that, Johnny Haynes getting the

goal. Running writing behind this, just that flick on, behind the

defence, unmarked, Dalmarnock played a part in that drubbing whereas

yesterday, against St Johnstone, it is a side that is well drilled. The

pressure on the ball, three players, not allowing anybody any time, great

play, looks over his shoulder, he can see he is getting close down and

he turns away from Davidson. He still has the back men forge a

breakdown. Great piece of skill to break that but he still has the back

men forge a bid and it is very difficult, coming up against a side

that is well drilled and on one occasion they did manage to do that,

that wonderful crossfield pass from Kenny McLean. St Johnstone, too far

over, that huge area for Shinnie to exploit but what shall quickly St

Johnstone get back into this and slow down the attack. When it comes

to Johnny Haynes, he has to face off with Ricky Foster, eight bodies in

the box for Saint Johnstone and that sums them up, difficult to play

against, no score at home, but up against a very tough side. I was

there yesterday and St Johnstone almost have that, great save from

Lewis? I'm not sure about that! This was a chance. Coming up quickly, he

sees that late. Probably should hit the target. This mix-up between

Considine and Shinnie, very nearly slides that into the net. And this

final one is a fantastic free kick from Wotherspoon. What a fantastic

save but interestingly, Jonathan met Lewis afterwards in the car park!

And congratulated him on that saved. Tremendous. And he took the save --

the praise but he did not touch that! Sometimes you see what you

want to see! Friday night, Partick Thistle not winning at home since

the opening week of the season. Few expected them to change that

statistic with the visitors, Celtic. Watching floss, Liam McLeod.

Archibald goes for something similar to the side that almost beat Rangers

in a few weeks back. Erskine returns to the team that stopped the rot

with the draw at Hamilton last week. Ominously for the rivals Celtic, the

focus is on the domestic game after the Champions League adventure ended

on Tuesday, starts for Griffiths and Stevenson. Stuart Armstrong. --

Mackay-Steven. Rogic, nice ball. Griffiths! He will be desperate to

get onto the scoresheet. There is a chance for Dembele this evening.

Tough times for Archibald, to get better at Hamilton last week. Second

at the bottom of the table. Leigh Griffiths. His decision paid off. It

can so easily could have gone the other way. That was good sleuthing.

-- sleuthing. May 1995 was the last victory of Partick Thistle over

Celtic, at Hampden Park. Celtic were the tenants, there. Griffiths

against Gordon. Get that across! Stuart Armstrong, who scored on his

Celtic debut here at Firhill. He breaks the deadlock heading towards

the interval. Griffiths to take this. Armstrong. He has found the

net! His second and a Celtic for Celtic. Either side of half-time.

Thomas Tierney will not be impressed with that. This is a mountainous

task for Partick Thistle, losing that second goal one moment ago.

Barton tries to defend. And Griffiths scorers!

It is not great from Barton, October's Player of the Month, but

that is a lovely finish from Leigh Griffiths, who is now into double

figures for the season. Brendan Rodgers 30th game in charge for

Celtic. What a difference he has made. What a header. It is 3-1. That

has come from absolutely no where as the expression on Craig Gordon's

face tells you. Celtic cleaning offside. As rare positive note for

Alan Archibald. That is Welsh. He is offside. It was so very nearly 3-2.

He is just off. It is the correct decision. Celtic have now scored 42

goals in the league. Across Europe that is beaten only by monocle in

France. Griffiths looking for another. But for Cerny he would have

had another. How do you stop this Celtic side?

They defended that one, they are toiling at the back and not scoring

either. It is a big problem for Alan Archibald. He goes down. Craig

Gordon with his arms in the air in innocence. Azeez has been booked for

diving. Down he went. Craig Gordon does not feel that he got anything

on Azeez and the referee agrees. McGregor, 4-1. They have scored four

or more than half of their league games this season. The juggernaut

continues. We frustrated them at times but in the final third we

offered very little. You need to be brave and have I go when you get in

the final third. Disappointed with the goal we conceded because it was

offside but overall, to play with that quality on the back of the game

as tough as we had on Tuesday, the players deserve a huge amount of

credit. We have got to do the basics right, find a way to keep a clean

sheet, we will not win until we do that. Celtic, three scoring as ever.

With all the talk about Dembele we have almost forgotten about Leigh

Griffiths which seems terrible as he scored 43 goals last season.

He offers something different to Dembele. Nothing spectacular here,

just linking the play. In between the two centre halves. If he takes a

better touch he is one on month with the keeper. This is similar. I do

not know why the Partick Centre has asked so far over, leaving because

of space. But this is the moment that changed the game. Partick had

defended all right up until this point. Millions from Griffiths. --

brilliant from Griffiths. Celtic started the second half on the front

foot pressurising Partick all over the pitch. I gain Griffiths playing

on the shoulder. I am a fan of Adam Barton but you have got to get rid

of this. Rails upon it. What a spin from Griffiths and you can see what

it's meant to him. Leigh Griffiths has been on the

bench a lot this season. Interesting quote from Brendan Rodgers that says

-- he says nothing in his contract that says he must play Leigh

Griffiths. You cannot play Leigh Griffiths ahead of Dembele, can you?

His form has dipped. He scored. He had an assist. Reduce Leigh

Griffiths ahead of Dembele? Just know I would. He seems to be sharper

and in better form. I spoke about this before when the belly first

broke into the team. Leigh Griffiths is too good to not have in the side.

-- when Dembele first broke into the team. I am sure Brendan Rodgers must

be trying to find some way to get those two into the team. Leigh

Griffiths is too good not to be in the side. After their 5-1 thumping

at Aberdeen in midweek, their next stop was Fir Park. Mark McGeeney in

the stands after a fallout with Dens Park last month.

Kilmarnock look to bounce back after the 5-1 loss at Pittodrie. Just the

one change. Tyson comes in. Keith Leslie is involved in doing

his coaching badges at the moment. I am not sure this is in his coaching

manual. McFadden watching on. It's worth with the coroner. -- Innsworth

with the corner kick. Snatched at the shops. Felt mostly

to him on the right side. McKenzie has made the run across. An

easy take for Craig Samson. To team in the end.

That is a good challenge. He put off Ross McLean. Good invention from

McLean. Drove forward. Heard the call from malt. Could not put it on

target. That could break for McManus, it does. Motherwell will

shout for a penalty. Steven MacLean realising that just hurts the

player. Not much Hendry could do. A decent effort form McManus. Taylor.

Motherwell just seems to let the ball just across the box. Taylor

pleaded in. Coulibaly got that shot away well. Better from Motherwell.

Good save, Jamie MacDonald, best of the match so far. Great play from

Motherwell. That is going to be a throw. McLean was quickly. Good stop

from the keeper. Transfer Ainsworth, opened the

scoring last time these sides met, had a chance again. Steadied himself

and lashed it wide. Better from Motherwell. Boyd trying

to TrackBack. Applauded by the goalkeeper. Got

back well, Scott Boyd. Tyson cannot break the deadlock.

Taylor is finding some success on the left. Could not convert with

power. That will be easily intercepted. MacDonald in great

position. Drag is his shot wide. What a chance Scott McDonald is to

break the deadlock. Good run formers from the full-back. Of course you

have got to be able to defend and if we had kept a clean sheet last week.

But it does not about that, it is about putting chances away, if we

had scored three today and lost two, I would have been happy. We are

doing the basics right and most of the games. We just have to clean up,

if you come away from home and get a clean sheet you are usually happy,

but with the lead being so intense we want to get three points.

Kilmarnock tightening up after that mauling from Aberdeen in midweek.

Kilmarnock had to defend better than they did against Aberdeen, losing

five goals. They did. It was their fourth clean sheet in seven games.

One player stood out. Scott Boyd. He is a very experienced defender. He

reads the game very well. He is not the quickest in the world, but he

needs the game well. I have played against him on numerous occasions

and he is a very tough customer. He has not got pace, but uses his

experience to make a last-ditch blocking tackle. I suppose you did

worry about, after that mauling in midweek that they are still in the

top half of the table, as for Motherwell, Mark McGeeney is saying

it is not all about clean sheets. He is coming out with some

contradictions. Last week he said it was a side that concedes too many

goals, they fixed that, now they complain they do not score enough

goals. In terms of mother will generally how would you assess their

run of form? Not great. One win from Neymar to difficult away games, St

Johnstone, Aberdeen, a tricky period for Motherwell.

Not even John Wayne was as prolific on the draw as Hamilton Academicals.

Seven of their last nine games had finished even. They were away to

bottom club Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

The changes for Inverness. A goalkeeping crisis. Fon Williams

starts. For changes for Hamilton. That is Crawford. Clumsy challenge.

Free kick given. It is Ali Crawford and expenses in 41-0, Hamilton. It

is a shocker for Inverness. -- 1-0, Hamilton. Back from Gillespie.

Half a chance to level things up. Helped on by Dachau.

-- bite D'acal. A decent effort. Draper. Looks to get beyond

Longbridge. Does not get there. Looks like handball from Danny

Seabourn on the line. He surely handled this. Greg Aitken sees no

penalty. This is a big opportunity for the

home team to equalise. The effort going wide. Vigurs, lofting this

forward, Tansey turning away from Crawford, what a Chancellor! Tansey

knows he should have scored. He seemed to do everything right coming

here. He could not find the finishing touch. Tremarco, that was

a neat touch from Doumbouya. Turned inside and Draper Mrs Patt. The

chances coming thick and fast for Inverness but they cannot put one

away. -- draper Mrs Patt. Mulraney. Spectacular! Cole! 1-1. Cole, on

loan from Fulham, scoring his first Inverness goal and he will struggle

to better that one. Explosive. Richie Foran a little bit happier.

MacKinnon. That is Longridge. Tremarco, headed away. In goes

MacKinnon and that was tipped over by Fon Williams. Sliding tackle from

MacKinnon that turned into the shot at goal and that needed saving.

McKay, with the pass. Horner on the move. Get set in 420 macro, Sarris

with the block. Tansey missed their chance earlier and this was an

opportunity to win the game for Caley Thistle. On the overlap.

Tremarco, decent ball in. Cole! That was not far away. On his left foot

and that was a decent strike with his right foot. A band under.

Longridge on the end of that. That's when up and under. The cutback and

he is unmarked, Crawford. He has missed the chance to claim all three

points for Hamilton. Not long left. It is Crawford again. Fon Williams

stretching. And unable to do anything with the rebound. I thought

we should have made one of the opportunities and won the game. But

that is a difficult place to come to. If we put a couple of wins in

their we will see the performance. We will see us reasonably pleased

but were missing three wins out of that group of drawers, the games

become vital. When you don't get the clear penalty, which was a clear

penalty... He has pushed that with his hand and the referee is in the

best position to see that, looking straight at it, very interesting.

Very disappointed once again. When you're down there you don't get

those decisions. But we also have to take our chances. With a bit of

composure and quality we were looking for but I am delighted with

the performance. Deja vu on over again. Another draw for Hamilton

Accies and another goal for Crawford? Every week? Batters him

with the same amount of league goals as Dembele A. Hamilton fans will be

pleased with five consecutive draws, that will end at Parkhead on Tuesday

night. That is a bold claim! Always interesting to hear from Richie

Foran. And a penalty appeal, CSI? Very interesting. I think the

referee has got that decision right, I do not think that is a penalty, he

is in a great position, not right for the reasons that he will have

given it because if you watch your... Doumbouya, handball, before

Woods. And then Seaborne handles that. Clearly the defender has the

handball but the reason there is no penalty is because the Inverness

striker Doumbouya and the handball first. The referee has a tricky job.

At the end of the day he has got the decision right but it would have

been difficult for him to have seen Doumbouya with the handball so in a

roundabout way he has got that correct. Goalkeeping issue with

Inverness this week, conflicting reports about whether they wanted

this postponed due to the injury crisis in terms of the goalkeepers,

but the strange, Fon Williams played not fully fit? Was the fault? He

could have done better. That was a great strike from Crawford. He has

to get across that. And there is a one-man wall. But after this he

pulled off a couple of very good saves. If he is struggling with

injury, he has done very well. This is a really good save, to get his

foot out. But, yes, interesting, very interesting! How big of a point

was that Inverness? Four straight defeats? To stop the rot and turn

things around, getting that point is a good result and it will give them

something to build upon, with a run like that you do not want that to

continue. Both Dundee and Ross County Avengers rocky spells the

season which resulted in them both propping up the table at one point,

better over the last month, they met yesterday at dens Park. Alistair was

there for us. The first Premiership start for

Jamie McCowan in the Dundee midfield. Ross County unbeaten in

four matches. No surprises they stick with the same starting 11 from

the draw with Hearts. McEveley. Gardyne. Gets a shot away. Down to

the near post to gather. Decent effort from Gardyne. Skipping away

from Hateley. That falls for Routis, he had that from some distance but

he got that on target. He had to be sure. Glancing header onto Van der

Weg. That was a good ball, but was missed by Gardyne and Curran. Either

of them, if they had the touch, that might have been the opening goal for

Ross County, certainly the more dangerous side in the opening

stages. Boyce allowed to cover some ground. Dingwall with the shot.

Another good opening from Ross County. Dingwall cannot make that

kind. McEveley. Clipping that over the top. Dingwall! Brought to the

ground, there. By Gadzhalov. He makes the enquiry with the referee,

there was no intention from Gadzhalov but he does bring Dingwall

crashing to the deck. Can Dundee create anything against Van der Weg?

Into the side netting. It took the touch from the defender. Kerr trying

to create something for the home side. Long clearance from Bain. Kerr

is outside Wighton. That was a good-looking cross, it was deep.

And, eventually, it just slips behind. Holt will feel that he

should have attacked that a little bit more. Routis, a Frenchman has

been a good acquisition for Ross County, he gives them presence in

the centre of the park. Gardyne, glancing header and the opening

goal...? No, it was chopped off... Liam Boyce had his hands on the back

of Gadzhalov and the referee decided that was a nudge. It falls for

Wighton. That was a nice idea from the young man. And a couple of yards

wide of the target with that Lord. -- lob. Not the best clearance from

Bain, picked up by Van der Weg. Boyce, great chance for Routis. That

was a chance to open the scoring. The Frenchman cannot believe he has

stuck that one wide. Gomis declare. He is onside! The

best chance for Dundee of the match. And it was blazed off target. Haber

has to do better. Boyce. Can Ross County finally get the break

through? That was a great ball! That was denied with a terrific save from

Bain. It has been that kind of day in front of goal for Ross County.

Another point, every point will be vital, we could have won but at the

other end, magnificent save. They were OK in the first half with some

good passes of play and good opportunities, any second half it

became frantic, I thought the game was quite open today. I thought we

defended well, slightly at times. And use the ball very well, I

thought we went through the middle of the pitch very well. As I say,

the switch of play was a key feature. The third scoreless draw of

the evenly, tough weekend for Sportscene but getting there! Dundee

with worst attack in the lead, 14 goals, they talk about having

strength attack, but there is a host of strikers, El Bakhtaoui, Haber,

not firing? They go blank for the third time in four games and that is

indisputable, they miss firepower up front, 14 goals for the season is

not good enough, Haber has a massive chance yesterday, lashing added,

only one goal in seven, I was expecting a better impact from El

Bakhtaoui. I quite fancy El Bakhtaoui as a player, he is not bad

but the creativity they had, there was a real balance and shape last

season and they have struggled a lot. I think with El Bakhtaoui, with

the good side doing well, he can score goals but it has been

struggling Dundee side he has gone on to. He has had a tough start. And

if you don't get off to a good start at a club sometimes that can stick

with you. There were a lot more creative chances last year. It

balances out that the results. They have not performed particularly

grates left had to change the way they started to play and that is not

suit somebody like El Bakhtaoui. Next weekend at Celtic Park? That is

very tough for them. I have to say, in the game earlier in the season, I

thought Dundee had a very good test against Celtic, winning 1-0 at dens

Park. Ross County, that is them unbeaten in five? They had a

horrendous run, but at the table, they can take that at least? Very

much in the same vein as Inverness, getting a result and a draw after a

bad run, that is right, Ross County, they were bottom of the table and

they needed to do something, that turn in the form, not losing at

getting some confidence back, and they definitely have got more than

enough quality in that side to start moving up the table. The first clean

sheet in ten for them yesterday. And Boyce. He will score goals with the

opportunities. For those games, they have actually been draws. For Ross

County. Stephen and Michael, thank you both very much as always. This

is how the Premiership table looks deceiving. Celtic eight points clear

of Rangers, with three games in hand. Aberdeen in third on 28

points. Harmonic stay in the top six. Astra Partick Thistle, they are

bottom of the table on 14 points. Scrooge like we gained in terms of

goals, hopefully we're off the naughty list next week and! From all

of us on the team, good night! -- next weekend.

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