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Good evening and welcome to Sportscene. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
A spectacular opening goal! The shot is an absolute beauty. | :00:18. | :00:35. | |
What a finish! That is it, I would imagine. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Good evening and welcome to Sportscene. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Please do not adjust your sets, Jonathan Sutherland isn't putting | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
I'll try not to break your show - which tonight looks | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Two Scotland internationals from yesteryear will apply | :00:54. | :01:29. | |
their forensic minds to that little lot later. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Say hello to Pat Nevin and Willie Miller. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
We'll start in Perth, where Premiership leaders Celtic | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
travelled to face in-form St Johnstone this very day. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Steven Anderson and Brian Easton return to the St Johnstone defence. | :01:44. | :02:01. | |
Sam Scobey dropping to the bench. Sam Fisher cannot play against his | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
parent club. Two changes to the team that drew in Turkey. | :02:07. | :02:23. | |
What an opportunity! Only 60 seconds played. A big save by Craig Gordon. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
Standing firm, to deny O'Halloran. A ruck of players at the back post. | :02:32. | :02:44. | |
Into the gloves of Gordon. Nadir Ciftci with a big opportunity. | :02:45. | :03:12. | |
Saved by Alan Mannus, but Nadir Ciftci should be scoring, here. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Mikael Lustig was lining up the shot. It took a deflection off | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Davidson. Helped on by Mikael Lustig, and | :03:25. | :03:39. | |
Nadir Ciftci scores for Celtic. A really good bit of finishing from | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the former Dundee United striker. It is only his third Celtic goal. But | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
this is much more like it from Ciftci, the control on-the-fly and | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the clinical finish. St Johnstone have been on such good | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
form of late and now find themselves a goal down. Armstrong's corner kick | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
and Boyata's header is saved by Alan Mannus. Pretty much straight up the | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
goalkeeper, but a giant leap by Boyata. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Liam Carr is Chris Millar's for St Johnstone. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
Gordon made the save. It had to be touched around the post by Craig | :04:33. | :04:45. | |
Gordon, who has hired important saves to make in this match, at | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
important moments. That is a double stop, firstly denying Davidson, and | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
then Wotherspoon. Michael O'Hara and... Warhol Arana, | :04:54. | :05:10. | |
and he put it wide. You can see exactly what was in his mind. He | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
raced into the box. He got his angles all wrong. | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
Lustig's cross is deflected. Ronny Deila would like another goal. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Callum McGregor's corner kick finds Boyata and Celtic have the goal | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
which takes them feel a whole lot more comfortable. It is only three | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
minutes into the second half. A bullet header from Boyata. 2-0. | :05:42. | :05:53. | |
O'Halloran, and deflected towards Davidson. Opened up for Brian | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Easton. Great strike! So close to bringing the game back to life. It | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
was cleared, in the end, by Lustig. Brian Easton feels so unlucky that | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
he didn't score. What a mess, what a chance to crown | :06:18. | :06:36. | |
a masterful performance by Tom Rogic. He was well off target. | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
Lustig won the header, and now he is racing away, after winning the ball | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
back from Tom Rogic. Ciftci Seals the win for Celtic. Two goals from | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Nadir Ciftci, to double his Celtic total. Curtains for St Johnstone | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
now. No way back. Great play from Ciftci. A double for Ciftci. | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Overall, the performance was really good. Some thing that the players | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
should be proud of. It emphasises that you have to take your chances. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
The first half, we were struggling a bit. A little bit lucky. But we had | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
a back four and goalkeeper that was very good. That was very pleasing, | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
when we talked a lot about the back four over the last year. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Second-half, when you get the second goals, you saw that the confidence | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
was coming and we played some beautiful football. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
The man of the moment, Ciftci, doubling his goals tally in one | :07:55. | :08:06. | |
match? He's taken the opportunity, no doubt about that. Top-class | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
finishing from him, particularly the first one. The first one was | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
excellent, a fabulous touch, precise finish. Saints went for it and they | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
nearly caught Celtic out? I thought they played pretty well, they had | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
some really good chances. No arguing against that. Celtic had about two | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
thirds of the play, they had the ball a lot. As the game went on, | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
they looked more classy. But it is about scoring goals. Celtic have a | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
striker, in the form of Ciftci, who can put the ball away. St Johnstone | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
didn't have that. You are keen to point out Celtic's high line. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
O'Halloran and has plenty of pace, and that's a high line. Ronny Deila | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
likes to play that, he likes to push up a little bit. But there were | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
quite a few times, this one is just good play, actually, I'm impressed | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
with that. Good goalkeeping by Craig as well. In the end, there were | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
opportunities, there were chances for them and they must feel a bit | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
disappointed they couldn't put one away. This is a fantastic strike | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
from Brian Easton. Left foot, a little bit unlucky. A bit | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
speculative. But he hit it so swiftly. Generally, their play was | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
good. They have been scoring goals this season. An entertaining team to | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
watch. 3-0 maybe skews the overall performance. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Ronny Deila picking up his back four? I was as well. Boyata was | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
great today. His attacking play was really good. He scores a great goal, | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
there. Fantastic. Great desire about that as well. Again, in the past, I | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
have said things about the centre-backs. This was clever, two | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
on one, but he doesn't live in. He does exactly what you should be | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
doing, giving yourself a bit of time. Allowing the defenders to step | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
back. The second one, the desire to get on the end of this. You know he | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
was having a good day, when two of them were closing him down, what are | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
you going to do? You could be in big trouble here. Celtic would have made | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
these mistakes in the past. This... Surely! That as a player playing at | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
the top of his game. It takes you a while to settle into the setup. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Celtic have had to make changes at centre-back this season. They are | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
beginning to get the understanding. Let's move on to | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
Tannadice, shall we? Home of Dundee United where, | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
with just four points in eight matches since taking over, | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
the honeymoon period is over Yesterday they faced | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
a Partick Thistle team chasing their third win on the spin, | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
all under the keen eye of our man Mixu Paateleinen makes two changes | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
as he looks for a winning formula. Thomas Cerney is back after a four | :11:01. | :11:23. | |
date absence. Dundee United, a run of one win in | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
15 league matches. Try that first time, but well off | :11:35. | :11:49. | |
target, Blair Spittal. It was a good ball through. Spittal with a hook | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
shot. United, still keeping up the | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
pressure. Dixon, too high. But his earlier | :12:05. | :12:21. | |
effort was blocked away well by Thomas Cerney. | :12:22. | :12:39. | |
Good turn, and Partick Thistle are in front! Well, he celebrated his | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
29th birthday yesterday, Kris Doolan. He celebrates his sixth goal | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
of the season today. It is his fourth goal in his last three | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
appearances for Thistle. Hit the post! Stephen Lawless's | :12:55. | :13:12. | |
effort may have actually taken a deflection to hit the post off the | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
boot of Souttar. Rankin, and the substitute could not | :13:20. | :13:35. | |
hit the target. Lee Lindsey, slipping as he tried to accept the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
pass. Dundee United could not punish the Partick Thistle rearguard. There | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
is the problem, getting mugged off the boots. No wonder Alan Archibald | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
is shaking his head. Well, Gavin Gunning could not | :13:51. | :14:04. | |
deflect that end. Appears to be appeals for a handball | :14:05. | :14:20. | |
from Lindsay. In that shot, it seemed goal bound. | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
The pressure is still on Thistle and Cerny is happy to grab that one. | :14:32. | :14:43. | |
Partick Thistle are desperate to get this win, to make it three wins in a | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
row in the top flight for only the second time in 20 years. Cerny is | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
happy to grab hold of that one from John Rankin. Disappointed and | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
devastated, really. One incident, the defender the wrong side of the | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
player, has a shot, it can happen. If you want to defend solidly, you | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
know, it's unbelievable. It wasn't a great game of football, the first | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
half was a poor spectacle, I think it opened up in the second half. We | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
actually got the goal. We put in some OK stuff at the end, but it | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
wasn't a great spectacle. I think he was disappointed and | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
devastated, certainly by the result. The defending isn't good, closer | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
attention is needed to close down the tackles. It is a good goal in | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
from these striker, he has made a nice finish but as a defender, | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
closer. At the back? | :15:57. | :16:06. | |
You do your job. They do care enough, that is fine, as long as it | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
doesn't go further. They are doing it for the right reasons. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Like we are in Brussels. And afterwards. In actual fact, it | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
is not the worst sign. What is a bad sign is that, four -- 34 goals. | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
They restricted their opponents to one on target yesterday. | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
They are not scoring, that is united's problem, giving away soft | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
goals at one end and not scoring at the other, a recipe for disaster. | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
And this incident? Not deliberate, far too close to | :16:52. | :17:01. | |
him. Hands in an unnatural position. The | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
referee, I don't think, can see through the back, you are talking | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
about the assistant who is a long way away. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Making a movement like the defender with his feet off the ground, I | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
don't think that is anyway unnatural. | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
Alan Archibald was not delighted, he said it was ace Paul spectacle -- | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
was a poor spectacle. Do you remember | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
the 26th of September? For one thing that was the last time | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Mind you, the team | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
they met this weekend - Kilmarnock - have won just one match | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
away from home since then. Did something have | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
to give yesterday? Christmas maybe a fortnight away but | :17:49. | :18:07. | |
it was an early gift for the Caley Thistle players thanks to shoddy | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
defending by Kilmartin. A tap in, a mix up between Balotelli and | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
McHattie allowed the ball to be cut back for Vigurs to slip it home. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Kilmarnock without a win in the last six but there was a chance for them | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
to get back into the game when Steven Smith went down. This effort | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
through -- flew narrowly over the crossbar. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Caley finished second in the Premiership and lifted the Scottish | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
club. -- Cup. Vigurs with his second of | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
the afternoon. James Vince and with a step over | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
allowing Vigurs a shot in off the post. | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Kilmarnock had strong claims for a penalty turned away by the referee. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Hammill with the shot, coming away from the hand of Warren, play on, | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
said the referee. Caley Thistle almost make it three. | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
This effort into the side netting. Kilmarnock pulled one back, | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Balotelli Beppe header, Connolly at the back post. Three minutes left, | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Kilmallock. They had a chance of a point. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Connolly's second goal of the season. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
However, it was to be Caley Thistle with the final chance of the game, | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
this long-range effort from Tansey pushed by bike MacDonald and all | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
three points state in the Highlands. A great first half performance, we | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
scored two great balls and did the business in the second half. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Kilmarnock came at us. But on account of the attack, we | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
were more clinical with our passing and could have scored another few | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
goals. We certainly need to start picking | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
up points. The boys are well aware of that. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
We need to cut out the sloppy defending which is costing us | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
dearly. This is a critique of Premiership | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
defending. Starting with Kilmarnock. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
This was a freak. These don't happen that often. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
A miscommunication. They are too polite. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Freaks happen now and again. Nothing particularly wrong. This is a world | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
worked goal, take nothing away from the side. | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
The step over it. We watched the same from St | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Johnstone. That was good football. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
The first one was a stinker. Killy had a penalty shout. Perhaps this | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
was more clear-cut? I would think so, I thought it was | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
an excellent save. Warren throwing his hands up. Definitely an | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
unnatural position. It is heading for goal. The referee was in a | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
perfect spot to make the call. Acting. | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
No doubt in my mind it should have been a penalty, the arms are way | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
above his head. Narrow escape. Definitely. When | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
things are not going for you, you don't get calls like that. | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
Aberdeen and Hearts have a big date to look forward to next month | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
But that was far from their thoughts as they went toe | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
It was all about the battle for second place, in a derby fixture | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
that has produced many memorable moments - | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
1-0 Aberdeen and I doubt very much if there will be an easier chance. | :21:50. | :22:16. | |
1-0. The Aberdeen of 2015, another chance | :22:17. | :22:32. | |
for Pollock to impress, the only change to the team that won at | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Dundee. Hearts first game for a fortnight, two changes. | :22:38. | :22:50. | |
A good start by Hearts. Paterson. Nicholson! He was unmarked beyond | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
the back post and he will be thinking he should have done better | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
here with what was a free header. The long ball from Taylor and it has | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
gone beyond Rossi. The ball was fired across goal, no | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
takers in the middle. But it was poor defending from Rossi. | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
An early ball in, and it came off the Hearts captain. That could have | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
gone anywhere. Thankfully, for him, it missed the target. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Header by Rossi. Hayes microbe with this snapshot taking it early, as | :23:44. | :23:58. | |
that clearance went straight to him. In from Hayes, a big chance for | :23:59. | :24:15. | |
Considine. And it went straight on Alexander. | :24:16. | :24:30. | |
Taking Hearts by surprise, taking the shop on, on the right foot, and | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
it was a good one. McGhee getting it back. | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
It is opening up for Nicholson, a great hit from the youngster. It | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
came crashing back off the crossbar, that could be the lift Hearts need. | :24:56. | :25:08. | |
Rossi heads it away, straight back and you had your money on Adam | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
Rooney scoring there. Well picked out, he timed run well but can't | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
quite believe he has put it over the top. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
A great chance for Hearts top goal-scorer and what an important | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
save that is from the Aberdeen goalkeeper Ward. He was offside, not | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
flagged, a big chance for the breakthrough. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Nicholson with the corner kick, a free header for Paterson, blocked on | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
the line by Flood. Denied at the second attempt. Appeals for a | :25:56. | :25:56. | |
penalty from Hearts. McGhee reaches up a hand and | :25:57. | :26:10. | |
concedes a penalty four minutes from full-time, what was he thinking? | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
Can Adam Rooney win the game for Aberdeen? | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
He's scored his sixth goal in seven games. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
12 for the season. Aberdeen have surely got the win they so badly | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
wanted to go seven points clear of Hearts. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
I think we showed perseverance and I think with two strikers to win the | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
game. The first half performance, with dominance of the game, I was | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
really pleased. We had a forced change at half-time. A small | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
adjustment there. We started the second half well but we didn't have | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
the same control. I thought we deserved the three points. | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Disappointed, we came up here and played really well. Created a couple | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
of good chances. We made a bad mistake for the penalty. We are a | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
club willing to give young players a chance, McGhee in his biggest game | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
in Scotland, that is football. I am sure he will learn from it. | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
A disappointing result but pleased. The winter has been wonderful bus | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
far for the Dons. They are back in form, their first | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
eight games of the season with victories. | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
They are scoring goals, not too many, Aberdeen, but they are back in | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
the mode where they can manage the situation and see it out. | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
The decisive moment in this match was described on the radio by Willie | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
Miller is a moment of badness. -- as a moment of madness. | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
If you see it from the other angle, he has had a look. He made that run. | :28:20. | :28:30. | |
Then he realises he is not there. I am not saying he should stick his | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
hand up. He has two timed his run and be | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
aware of where -- be aware that Goodwillie is not there. | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
Irrespective of that comic you should not throw your hand up. | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
He is thinking, I have spotted him there, he must be there now a couple | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
of seconds later, but he wasn't. He is a young player. | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
You are singling out Hayes for praise. | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
On the day, he was fabulous. A great couple of seasons for the club, his | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
general play is superb, prepared to take on players, delivering into the | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
box. Really difficult to defend. He is | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
willing to take on defenders. If he runs out of space, he is more than | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
capable of hooking them in. That worked viciously and he nearly got a | :29:28. | :29:35. | |
deflection. A wonderful cross for Considine who should have finished | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
it. Hayes, again, he is in the box, the King to get to the end of the | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
ball. His overall play has been wonderful. | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
You may not remember this, but Dundee were the first | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
Premiership leaders this season way back in week one. | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
But things have gone a little off course since then with just one win | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
Coincidentally, that win came against yesterday's opponents | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
Motherwell who had yet to win a home game under new-ish manager | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
Brian McLauchlin is your commentator for this one. | :30:03. | :30:15. | |
Mark McGhee makes just one change, young Ben Hall makes his debut. | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
Kevin Thomson has recovered from injury. He comes back into the | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
starting XI, as does Gary Ifan. -- Gary Irvine. | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
The cross, knocked away by Rory Loy. Scott McDonald! Motherwell are in | :30:41. | :30:52. | |
front. A hint of offside. But McDonald was there. The ball knocked | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
in by Stephen Pearson. McDonald, just six yards out, all alone, where | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
were the Dundee defenders? The home side, 1-0 up. | :31:03. | :31:10. | |
Pearson, in space! Good save by Scott Bain. Again, the Dundee | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
defence cracked wide open. Cross comes into Moult! Back off the | :31:18. | :31:35. | |
post! Clipped off the top of the crossbar. So close to a second goal | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
for Motherwell. Excellent play by Louis Moult. It was McDonald that | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
challenged. Mark McGhee the happier of the two managers. Moult! Number | :31:50. | :31:58. | |
two for Motherwell. Louis Moult, with his ninth goal of the season. | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
The Dundee defence again caught napping. Moult with a clinical | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
henna. -- Heather. Connor Ripley forced to dive low to | :32:06. | :32:24. | |
his right hand side. Hemmings, twisting one way and then the other. | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
That again, the near post header by keeper. | :32:28. | :32:36. | |
That again, the near post header by Louis Moult. This time, wide of | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
target. The defence just coping. Harkins, takes a deflection and ends | :32:40. | :32:56. | |
up in the back of the net. Gary Harkins brings the team back into | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
the game. Good play by Hemmings. Law, a little bit unfortunate. The | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
ball deflected off him and into the back of the net, beyond Ripley. Game | :33:08. | :33:08. | |
on. Stuart! He was challenged by his own | :33:09. | :33:27. | |
player. Gary Harkins. Greg Stewart, it looked like a free header. | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
Harkins got in his way. Law, with the free kick, excellent | :33:30. | :33:38. | |
stop by Scott Bain. Eventually out for a corner. Scott Bain doing | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
terrifically well. Stephen Pearson! That is a goal that | :33:41. | :33:57. | |
wraps up all three points for Motherwell. Pearson made the run. | :33:58. | :34:05. | |
His second goal of the season. Three points for Mark McGhee's side. I | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
suspect you would have to score more goals to beat them today. We have | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
let in occasional goals. We have not yet got to the stage where we are | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
let in occasional goals. We have not confident we will keep a clean | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
sheet. The two goals won the game. We scored a goal after about five or | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
six minutes. I felt, defensively, we looked a bit frail at times. A | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
better second-half performance, in terms of overall play, going | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
forwards. But we looked vulnerable today. | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
A first home win for Mark McGhee in his second spell as manager? I am | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
sure that will please him. The fact he scored three goals as well, he | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
will be more than happy tonight. I think it takes a bit of time for a | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
manager to get into a club and get his thoughts over to the players. | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
But I think that home victory, it certainly looks like he's getting | :35:05. | 0:28:09 | |
his message over. Three goals yesterday, more than a whiff of | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
controversy about the first? I would say not much. It comes into Stephen | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Pearson, by the way, this is a great pass. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I think his heel is offside. But only his heel. It would take a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
phenomenal decision for the assistant referee to spot that. The | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
strikers usually get the benefit of the doubt. Slightly offside, a neat | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
and tidy finish. Plenty of space, though? The question is the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
defenders. Acres of space there, even though the decision is | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
marginal. Nobody closing him down. Nobody in close proximity. And he | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
finished it well. A lovely touch, fantastic finish. Stephen Pearson | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
got on the scoresheet, just like old times? There were not many people in | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
my years playing that were better at this than him. Nobody gets near him, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
when he goes at that pace. Quite phenomenal. I don't say that | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
lightly. A lot of good players have been able to break into the box | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
late. At 33, he is as good just now as he ever was at that. He should | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
score a lot more goals than he does. He will get many more if he keeps | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
doing that and stays fit. Our final port of Premiership call | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
is New Douglas Park, where Hamilton hadn't won | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
a home game since September. But their opponents Ross County, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
on the other hand, hadn't won a league match on the road | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
since the August. Here's our reporter Andy Burke's | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
story of the match. Just a point separating the teams | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
going into this one. Neither were in great form. Hamilton took the lead | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
through Gramoz Kurtaj. A superb counterattack. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
There were now in the groove. The lovely passing move almost brought a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
second. Gramoz Kurtaj forcing a good save from Scott Fox. Jim McIntyre | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
wanted more from his side and got it just before the hour mark. Jackson | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Irvine's rocket almost brought them level, Craig Curran's follow-up did | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
the trick. A sixth goal of the season for the Englishman. Boss | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Martin Canning felt his side should have had a penalty when Crawford | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
tumbled under a challenge from Jackson Irvine. The replay suggests | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
that the referee was right to suggest play on. The second goal | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
owed a little too long. The substitute Stewart Murdoch made the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
most of the situation to get his first goal for County. Ross County | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
thought they had put the game out of sight with a third. Michael Gardyne | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
slotted home, but the flag was up for offside. Perhaps he was | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
unfortunate to see his effort ruled out. County were not to be denied, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
adding a third in the 90th minute. Liam Boyce turned the ball home with | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
the aid of a slight deflection. A second away win of the season for | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
County, they leapfrog Hamilton Academical. I think we made the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
goalkeeper working. We try to move the ball. You see with the first | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
ball, it's a good goal. At times, a ricochet can fall into your path and | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
it is something we need to do better, hitting the target more. We | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
have done well on our own terms. If you go away from home and pick up a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
point, you can never be too displeased. We knew we had to get | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
our average of Windsor. To come to a tough place like this, on a surface | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
we are not used to, the players deserve fantastic credit. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
A welcome when, and start of a benign run-off fixtures, all | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
winnable? They are good, strong, good at the back for most of the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
games I've watched them. Players are front can find the back of the net. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
They've got the opportunity now to go on a little run, after some | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
setbacks. Hamilton struggling at home, unusual, they haven't | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
witnessed in September? It's tough to explain. I would always expect if | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
you have got that sort of pitch, it should give you an advantage. Even | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Jimmy McIntyre has said it is not a surface they are used to. Even he's | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
really excited about it. I am amazed, if it keeps on going, the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
big thing is, they did just put their foot through the ball and | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
smack it generally towards the target. On those surfaces in | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
particular, it is the right thing to do. I'm just amazed they don't do it | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
more often. I don't think we have missed out any Premiership matches. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
So we can take a Terry Butcher's at the league table. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Celtic, four points clear of Aberdeen at the top. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
The Dons, seven clear of third-place Hearts. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Kilmarnock have dropped into the dreaded play-off place, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Dundee United, eight points adrift in the even more | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
To the Championship next in which leaders Rangers welcomed | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Morton to Ibrox for the first time in the league in about 28 years. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Before the game, there was a minute's silence for Rangers | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
midfielder Arnold Peralta who was shot dead in his native | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
The Rangers manager makes one change to his line-up, Kenny Miller returns | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
to the attack, Nicky Clarke drops to the bench. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Rangers, on this run of one defeat in 16 league matches. They are | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
looking to maintain their place at the top. Lea Wallace, knocked to the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
ground by, Tyburn near, swinging that one | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
income and that there is Kenny Miller! Rangers are in front after | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
only two minutes. Tavernier's delivery, and Miller pounced to | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
claim his seventh goal of the season. He outjumped everybody, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
including the goalkeeper. Well, he is desperate for a second, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Kenny Miller. Good play again by Mackay and Wallace, setting up the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
opportunity. James Tavernier has turned it into | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
his own net! Johnston goes off to celebrate. The Rangers defenders | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
can't believe what Tavernier has just done. He has been regularly | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
scoring for the Ibrox side. On this occasion, he has levelled it for the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
opposition. Miller, good control, and blocked by | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Pepper. Good, thoughtful play from Rangers again. Morton break it up. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Miller is certainly lively this afternoon. Good control and Pepper | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
throwing himself in front of it. Parried away, good, positive play by | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
the visitors. Johnston with the shot, the on loan Birmingham player. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
He has been in good form, he's got six goals so far for Morton. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Waghorn, an excellent save by Grant Adam. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
The goalkeeper did not get there initially. It was O'Ware's header, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
initially. That a lovely, curling shot! | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
McCloskey puts Morton in front! 82 minutes played, is there a shock on | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
the cards at Ibrox? Excellent execution. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Cutback from Wallace, and that is Waghorn! Rangers have responded very | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
quickly. In the space of two minutes, Martyn Waghorn, claiming | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
his 20th goal of the season. Well into stoppage time, is that one | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
last chance for Rangers? And he just couldn't get over the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
top of that one. They may have to be content with a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
draw. A bad day at the office today. But | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
you saw that they never stop moaning. Frustrated, undoubtedly. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Lack of quality. But we move forward. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Most people might have thought Rangers can win it. Other than that, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I think the referee was great, it was a good game, we contributed to | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
it. Rangers dropping points again, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
making a habit of it? A little bit, in the early part of | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
the season they were overpowering, that has dipped. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I think Rangers are losing their form just now. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
So, folks, to Easter Road where Hibernian had the chance | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
to capitalise on Rangers dropping points. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
They faced Alan Stubbs' bogey team, if you believe in such things, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Alan Stubbs makes just one change to the side, Hanlon comes into the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
team. Miller's reward for a hat-trick was | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
a place on the bench. A nice little pass to Stevenson. Who | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
gives it ' Keatings who goes down under the challenge of Muirhead, the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
decision is a corner from Kevin Clancy. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
A clever pass from Keatings to set Malonga on the way who returned the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
past. Keatings tries one and it almost crept into the net there. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Mightily relieved to see this slip past the post. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Great defending from Leahy. But the danger is still alive. Back | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
to Cummings again. Finally, they get the danger clear. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
14 goals already, Cummings. Looking for number 15 there. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Cummings driving forward again. He has support in the shape of McGinn | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
who fancied a go and that almost found the net, Rogers got a touch on | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
it. Just for a second it looked as if it | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
had crept inside the post. McGinn driving into the penalty | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
area. That is a heavy challenge. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
McGinn, sent off, straight red card. You see that often when a player | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
loses position but that is right over the top of the ball. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Fontaine wins the ball back for Hibs, now Cummings, what can he do | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
up against McCracken and he goes down. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I think Kevin Clancy has got that one right. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
No contact whatsoever. Can Falkirk apply some pressure off their own? | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Lofted into the box, well played by Fontaine. Vaulks picks it up. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Determined to play. There is Miller! The hat-trick hero | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
from last weekend does it again. Not one that Mark Oxley will want to | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
see again. A last chance for Hibs now as | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Cummings goes to the line. Surely Hibs have snatched it in | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
stoppage time? Cummings has been trying to make | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
things happen all day, a clever flick from Anier. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I think in result and performance like that could go a long way within | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
our season, when you look back at the end and you think of a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
performance and result, that was one of them. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
We could have moved it a bit quicker, more than we actually did. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
It was disappointing to lose a goal so late in injury time. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
But it's no disaster. Alan Stubbs seemed quite pleased | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
with the outcome at Easter Road. They were playing with ten men, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Falkirk were a really good side. Psychologically it is a massive | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
help. His team played well. Let us look at | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
why they were playing with ten men, McGinn, a determined character. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
He has a lot going for him, this young man, a determined character. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
His momentum has taken him into the challenge, no doubt it is over the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
ball. No doubt he had to see the red card. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
I didn't think it was premeditated, the challenge. That is the way the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
ball, the boy plays. Full of determination. His momentum took him | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
into the challenge. He had his back to the player in the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
last second and twisted around. It is reckless. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
But I don't think it was malicious. St Mirren, his former club, in | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
trouble, third bottom, Ian Murray resigning after the defeat away to | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Dumbarton yesterday. Troubled times for St Mirren. They | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
have to go through the process again, look at who is available. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Do they go for experience, a young manager? They have had too many | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
managers in a short period. A big decision, who will be the next | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
chief. Where do they go from here? | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
The big thing is you will get lots of people wanting the job which is a | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
good thing. It is a struggling team. I wouldn't | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
say Ian Murray is a bad manager but it is a bad situation he finds | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
himself in, he should get other opportunities. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
They have been through managers at a real rate of knots. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
If you get the perfect young manager available you go for him. You take | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
everything on board. You see what is available. Maybe first initial ideas | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
aren't right. The natural thing is to go for experience. If you see the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
right person, it may be you get 23 in at the same time, coach, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
assistant manager, tough job. If he keeps taking his medication, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
Jonners will be back next week. Oh, and on the subject of which, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
next Sunday, the show is on BBC Two Scotland at 10:10pm, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
so please don't be caught out. For now, though, it's thanks | 0:28:10 | 0:28:09 | |
to Pat and Willie. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:10 |