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It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we have 45 minutes of | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
festive football for you, rounding up the long weekend in the SPL. I | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
hesitate to say we have a couple of Christmas crackers in the studio, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
but we do have a pair of high- scoring strikers. It says here. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
They will talk you through the action. Steven Thompson and John | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Robertson are with us. John was at Tynecastle today, to watch Hearts | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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against Dundee United. Commentary Tynecastle, there will be a hero's' | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
welcome for Rudi Skacel, always loved that Tynecastle because of | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
his goals and his Cup final heroics and the number on the jersey tells | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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back for Dundee United but a cool finish from Ryan Stevenson. It fell | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
to Brian Stephenson, who cleverly finished. He opened up his foot and | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :01:59. | :02:48. | |
Willo Flood. That is a senseless A great ball in from the throat, | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
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put Willo Flood causing his side against Aberdeen and now Dundee | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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United. His second of the afternoon. sending it over the top. A signal | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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the worst at the bottom of that pile. It will take him a moment or | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
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match. -- United are back in the match. Fine style from Keith Watson. | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
A hint of offside. It is a great finish from Keith Watson. He gets | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the benefit of the doubt from the assistant. The ball was fired in by | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
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his side, being out played in the flag did not come up and he had a | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
chance. He looked offside, he was offside. United would have had | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
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something to say if that had gone hits this afternoon, still to find | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
a way past the keeper as United continue the quest for the | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
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have been waiting for. He was brought down brilliantly by Russell, | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
A sense of progress a Hearts, into the top six, but what do you expect | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
it to happen for your old team between now and the end of the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
season? It has been a wonderful effort from the Hearts fans. They | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
have been superb. To raise �1.2 million from a share issue in seven | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
weeks is astonishing. They are coming along in vast numbers. They | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
are going to the games. They have done their fund-raising. The big | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
one could be the semi-final, if they were to beat Inverness, which | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
would be one massive, massive task, the way they are playing. It could | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
see then, if they continued the sales of tickets, it should see | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
them OK. Then, next year, they will come down to self sustainability. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Dundee United seemed to like to give themselves a challenge and it | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
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was not a great defending for let it bounce. I tell you what,... | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
He uses his body. He about mussels Maclean. He could have dropped and | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
given a clean... The first part is the big that will upset Peter | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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He muscled him out of it and gave Hearts a perfect start. That is the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
second successive weekend that Willo Flood has conceded a penalty. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
If Peter Houston had any hair to pull out, he would be. Every chance, | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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It that is the penalty kick. Craig Thomson is standing in, we will see | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Willo Flood last week, I don't think they have to do anything here. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
If Ross Draper can score from here, why he dives in, I don't know. He | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
It is in his character, he is always fouling and giving away free | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
kicks. He needs to not do it in the box. I was wondering what you were | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
going to call him, for one worrying moment. Dundee United reckon they | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
deserved more from the game. Were they right? Yes, listen, the thing | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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they were fortunate because it looks like they may have been | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
offside. But trust me, Dundee United put in a lot in this game | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
today and how Johnny Russell took the game he got, the chance in the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
last minute, it probably would have been a deserved point. There was | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
not much between the teams. This was the real chance, a good first | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
touch, he does not keep it down. Peter Houston was really frustrated | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
after the game because the highlights did not show it but | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
there was lots of pressure. Hart's' back four, they were magnificent -- | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
I don't think they got the reward they have been due. A lot of the | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
pre-match build-up was about Rudi Skacel's return to Tynecastle. His | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
number on the back of the shirt was on the front of the programme. It | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
was guaranteed to fall flat. By all accounts he was not at his best in | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
the game and that sometimes happen if there is build-up and | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
by the fans. I think that is going to come back and haunt him a bit, | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
that last bit there. The Hearts fans, it is during the game, United | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
comes out of the traps really half -- in the second half really well. | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
He has been 2-0 down, the fans were not to just about it and rightly so. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
It is an innocuous thing, but he should have ignored it, maybe when | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
he was substituted or maybe after the game, ignored the fans. By | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
don't think he should have been Hibs were looking to end a poor | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
recent run, they played Kilmarnock at Rugby piked -- at Rugby Park. | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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kick had plenty of power in it. Paul Heffernan, he has better luck. | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
Williams was not getting to that one. Paul Heffernan gives | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
Kilmarnock 86 minute lead against Hibs. -- Fajr -- a lead in the six | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
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Paul Heffernan, looking for a second in the early stages. Very | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
close. Kenny Shiels continuing in the stand, of course. It has been | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
going OK since the suspension began. Paul Kenny hooks it clear but there | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
is a shout for a penalty. Watch his jersey, there. Not spotted by the | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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players when they threw away at 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 last week. They | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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are back on level terms through after going behind against | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
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Kilmarnock. He has taken full knew too much about it. A horrible | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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is a way, off the line, by Fowler. Paul Cairney feels he should have | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :13:03. | :13:45. | |
scored here. But for James Fowler, going to be booked for diving. Well, | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
it is a massive decision for the referee. Paul Cairney, bearing down | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
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on Michael Nelson. Down he went Kilmarnock have had a roller- | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
coaster of result, they you never know what to expect. The following | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
weekend, they can play the opposite football. They have been up and | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
down, not getting consistency going. When they do get their passing game | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
going, they moved a Kid -- they move the ball tremendously well. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
They have been inconsistent. They will be looking to put a run | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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together, like ourselves. A couple look at the referee's position, it | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
is perfect. Eoin Doyle loses him. How he cannot see that is beyond me. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
It is a definite penalty kick. is one of Hibs' witnesses. It isn't | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
easy one for the referee to give up. You see the penalty Hearts was | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
given and the second one. similarities. It should have been a | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
penalty kick. Maybe Bobby Madden decided to cancel out the penalty | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
claims in this match because this was Paul Cairney and the challenge. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
This is also a penalty kick. He over run Setanta knocks it passed. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
He commits the challenge and does not get the ball. It is not a | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
booking. He has knocked it a way, but when you see it again I think | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
you seen Nelson. There was contact. Keep an eye on Paul Cairney's back | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
foot. He trails his leg a bit to make it look, after the contact. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Possibly, but there is contact. is the double whammy because no | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
penalty for Hibs there and Paul Cairney is now suspended. Yes, that | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
is a big loss to them. It should have been penalty kicks. It would | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
have had an outcome on the game. Now it is St Mirren against | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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problems. That might have come off Steven Thompson. It was lashed away | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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finish! St Mirren have the breakthrough, six minutes before | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
the interval. Terrific near-post strike from Steven Thompson, his | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
eight goal of the season. St Mirren have taken all sorts of confidence | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
from that opening goal. A quick- fire double from Steven Thompson! | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Within the space of three minutes, St Mirren have a two goal leader. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
He could not live with Steven Thompson India. The home side have | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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third goal. A bit of a barge. He got to his feet. That was a | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
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turned into the net. It was already over the line. Motherwell are wide | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
backing this game. 13 minutes remaining. Can the visitors | :19:08. | :19:17. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :19:18. | :20:05. | |
they are still holding on to the Mirren have done it. They were | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
holding on at the end, but they St Mirren like Friday Night | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Football! For it was an entertaining game. It always days | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
against Motherwell. They attack. You get an open match. I was lucky | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
enough to get on the scoresheet. They were handing on for the last | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
20 minutes. Motherwell might have got a point from the game. It was | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
great defending. There were lots of instances about last-ditch | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
defending. You are reluctant to talk about your goals! We might as | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
well! The first one, it is a nice ball in. I lost the defender. It is | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
a good finish. It is not a phrase you often hear, a good ball in! | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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That is a brilliant target-man goal. He has used his leverage. He is too | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
shy to say it, but it was a classic in strikers goal. St Mirren were | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
fully in control. It could have been a hat-trick. At the wrong end! | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
Nobody knew I had hit off the bar. I knew at the time, I was trying to | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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defend it. That is an unbelievable save. It comes off the post. Should | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
the St Mirren fans prepare themselves for the departure of | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Kenny Bickley in? A lot of people have been watching him. He has got | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
the qualities to play down south. Last year, I felt he did not have | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
the consistency, but this year, he has played well each week, and he | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
has added more goals to his game. He has hit the inside of the post | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
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each time. That is unbelievable. Somebody like that, you think, | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
would it be better for a club in England to purchase him and give | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
him back to St Mirren to develop his football? Young bloods go down | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
and do not get involved with the first team sometimes. Sell him, | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
bring him back on loan and let him continue. It sounds like a good | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
deal. I think the board would be happy with that. John bigging will | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
get more gain time. Ever since he came into the team, he has been at | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Stand end, every single match. Maybe not at Celtic, but he has | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
been outstanding. He has got a very big future. He was the best St | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Mirren player on the day when I saw him, he was direct, he had a trick, | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
he looked like he had been there all his life. If he can add goals, | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
he will be a frightening prospect. The rise of Inverness has been one | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
of the stories of the season so far, and with Motherwell losing, they | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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knew they would reclaim second Inverness have hardly been shy of | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
shots recently, so the Aberdeen goalkeeper was expecting a busy | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
afternoon. So it transpired. Another wave of attack. A good ball | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
in, he looked sharp again, but the referee felt the Inverness player | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
was fouled. Douglas saved from the head there, but the referee pointed | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
to the spot. Billy Marc Cater kit, but this time, Douglas was beaten. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Pilley Mackay, who has scored in the last six games, scored again. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Barry Smith urging his players to get back into the game, and his | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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Nicky Riley did well to control the ball, and it was 1-1. That spurred | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Dundee on, and they came close to grabbing another. Smart play from | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
Nicky Riley. This wonderful effort was kept out. From then on, it was | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
all about Inverness, they had lost only once in their previous 17 | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
matches. Owain Tudur Jones put them ahead. A powerful low effort. After | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
24 minutes, they were back in front. Into the second half, with a bit of | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
help from David Essien, they went further ahead. Billy Mackay pounced | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
on the poor back-pass. He still managed to score. Impressive stuff. | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
He steered the ball in. That is his 18th goal of the season. It made | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
good feeling for the management duo, but there was more to come off. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Andrew Shinnie still had plenty to do. That finished, his 10th goal of | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
the season. A great victory, they go into Christmas in second place. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
The facts and figures are absolutely frightening Likud, when | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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you compared with how last season goals tally. Inverness have been | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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Lots of players are scoring. What they have got that is really going | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
for them, their mentality is incredible. They do not believe | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
they are going to lose. They have the belief. He does not matter if | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
you score, we will score more. They have round pegs in round holes. The | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
front four have been outrageously good. Andrew Shinnie plays off the | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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front, Billy McKay on his own. The other three switch positions. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Everything is in the perfect position. To me, Inverness have | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
been the team of the season, by far. You will be looking forward to a | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
trip up north! We play them on Boxing Day. It is always difficult | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
at the best of times, but they are in sparkling form. They have been | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
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so it entertaining. 19 games, 76 goals, four goals a game, and they | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
have scored in every match. Although the forwards have been | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
getting a lot of praise, the two lads in the middle of the park, the | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
two centre halves, excellent. The team performance has been | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
incredible. They gel, they played with a smile on their face, they | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
socialise together, and it shows in their performances. Nobody should | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
want to play them, because they refuse to accept that anybody will | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
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About yesterday, Dundee made a hell of a contribution to their downfall. | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
He is going nowhere, you have got to jockey him. Two sensational | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
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saves. We have seen a Owain Tudur Jones score against Hearts. The | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
goalkeeper will be disappointed. He would normally expect to save that. | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
This is David Essien with a crazy pass back. This is when you know | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
your luck is in there. He has scored 12 in his last seven games, | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
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Billy McKay. Gallagher is a good young prospect, but he will think, | :29:45. | :29:53. | |
you just a jockey him away from goal. The second one, Billy McKay | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
has read the pass back. He has just about jumped over the ball. But | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
that is the way things are going for Dundee. Billy McKay cannot stop | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
scoring. Aberdeen were determined to end a run of three successive | :30:08. | :30:18. | |
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Driving rain made for tough playing conditions as Aberdeen went in | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
search of their first home win since October but that didn't seem | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
to be affecting Niall McGinn, as he tested Mannus in the sin Johnstone | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
goal early on. Niall McGinn was involved in much of the action. | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
Even when he ended up on the ground, he was trying to cause problems, | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
quickly up and having a shot at goal. They were well wrapped up in | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
the dug-out but surely encouraged by their side's start. It was not | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
long before another chance came their way. There was more to come. | :30:55. | :31:03. | |
Neat play resulted in a good ball in, which two players tried to meet. | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
While Aberdeen were creating plenty of chances, St Johnstone did not | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
threaten as much. There was a dangerous ball in, Frazer Wright | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
should have done better. Frustration for Wright and there | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
would be more of that for Aberdeen as well. Josh Magennis raced | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
towards goal and found Niall McGinn was a lovely pass but Mannus | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
produced another wonderful save. Perhaps Aberdeen fans were thinking | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
it was going to be one of those afternoons, but a clever free kick | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
from Niall McGinn eventually bought from -- brought some Christmas | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
cheer. The thing Johnstone keeper beaten this time as Niall McGinn | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
grabbed his 11th goal of the season. The Norad -- the Northern Irish man | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
continued to wreak havoc, this in swinging corner caused problems. A | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
point not lost on Steve Lomas, the since Johnstone manager sitting in | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
the stands as he seemingly issued instructions to the bench. If there | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
was one st Johnstone player catching the eye, it was their | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
goalkeeper. He may have unintentionally started a move that | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
could have led to Aberdeen's second goal, but he quickly made amends, | :32:13. | :32:20. | |
saving from you-know-who. Mannus was at it again, this time a double | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
save from Magennis and then Niall McGinn. But Niall McGinn would have | :32:27. | :32:35. | |
the final say in this encounter. There was an inch-perfect pass and | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
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Niall McGinn with his second of the game. A terrific ball from the 19- | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
year-old and the impressive Niall McGinn ceiling only Aberdeen's | :32:50. | :32:58. | |
Another team who are difficult to predict, Aberdeen. At times you | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
look at their team and score and think they will run over teams and | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
they have lost games. Yesterday, lots of youngsters in the team, | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
Steven, they could have won it more comfortably? At this start of the | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
season I would have said it was the strongest squad in the league. They | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
had injury problems yesterday. They had ten players under the age of 21 | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
yesterday, which is a great testament Aberdeen. They have a | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
great youth policy. The big problems are at home for them. | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
Yesterday was only their 10th win in a calendar year that Pittodrie. | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
And their third win in the SPL this season. That is the frustrating | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
aspect for the fans, away from home they have a good record. They have | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
been doing well. It is the frustration of the home games. They | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
have not been winning enough. If they had a few team -- if they had | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
been, like a few teams, been on Celtic's tail, but they have lacked | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
consistency. The top teams at the moment, Celtic and thin -- and | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
Inverness, they seem not to have the run of games in them. This | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
tells the story, a string of superb saves from Mannus forcing Johnstone. | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
It tells you about the amount of effort that they had on target. | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
many of them were from Niall McGinn? He had about seven or eight | :34:15. | :34:22. | |
efforts on goal. Incredible, Niall McGinn should score that one. This | :34:22. | :34:32. | |
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is the save of the game. Incredible. Consider, it was just a Niall | :34:32. | :34:40. | |
McGinn, save from Mannus. He gets caught, he is not expecting it. It | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
is a good fun -- it is a good finish. It will be frustrating for | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
Mannus because he has had a particularly good game and he will | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
look at the first goal, which has changed the mechanics of the game, | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
and think, I should have done better than that. That is how | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
crawled football can be for goalkeepers, pulling off a string | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
of wonderful saves and losing what you would call a soft goal. He was | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
battered into submission. By the weather! Celtic's Champions League | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
success has seen them take their eye off the ball in the SPL at | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
times. On the back of the last 16 draw, which paired Celtic with | :35:17. | :35:27. | |
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Juventus, Ross County were hoping Hooper, but once again it was | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
straight at Mark Brown. He was able to push out an arm and keep it out | :35:54. | :36:04. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :36:04. | :36:57. | |
quickly. Before Hooper could pounce. County have had two glorious | :36:57. | :37:07. | |
opportunities to go in front, just something to say about a rather | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
stuttering performance from Celtic in the first half. The goal at the | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
start of the second, the perfect response. It is the captain, Scott | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
Brown, played in by Gary Hooper. Brown Paris it past Brown. | :37:27. | :37:37. | |
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Excellent weight in the pass from 0 to Celtic. He missed so many | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
chances in the first half, Celtic, they looked sharper in the second. | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
It is Gary Hooper. He latches onto the excellent cross. Marc | :38:04. | :38:14. | |
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Fitzpatrick had lost the striker stand? It has been given by the | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
referee. Gary Hooper seemed somewhat bemused, but the referee | :38:29. | :38:39. | |
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three. The game is beyond Ross first goal of the season for James | :38:55. | :39:04. | |
Forrest. He marked his comeback from a two month injury lay-off in | :39:04. | :39:14. | |
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Forrest. He has really addicted Celtic's place since coming on. | :39:20. | :39:30. | |
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Hooper is denied a hat-trick by the goal it would have been. Gary | :39:51. | :40:00. | |
Hooper, still looking for a hat- Celtic dropped points in seven of | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
the first 14 league games, they do look like slipping up at the moment, | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
do they? No, they have started to motor. The boost they got for | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
qualifying in the last 16 of the Champions League has been | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
tremendous. They had a lot of chances in the first half but that | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
two best chances fell for Ross County. You just wonder what the | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
mentality of the crowd and the team would have been, had they taken | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
them. The rule about the trip to Celtic Park dictates that if you | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
get these chances you have to took them away. You have to take them, | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
the game plan had worked until half-time. If you take a touch come | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
he maybe things he hasn't got as much time as he has. Take a touch | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
and hit it. We are talking about Yaounde winners and young talent, | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
this man, Cooper, Neil Cooper's son, is a talent. He is really good. I | :40:48. | :40:54. | |
wonder if he could have got this one. Foster is down early. It could | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
have ricocheted into the goal. It was two big chances. One of your | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
money of teams, when Ross County spent so many in the January | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
window? Derek Adams did not use the money he was offered in the summer. | :41:07. | :41:17. | |
He did not, they have struck four deals with players to go. They have | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
already cleared the decks to allow them to bring in. There are a | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
couple of foreign defenders that they are having a good look at, | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
that Derek Adams fancies. He has bought another striker to have a | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
look at as well. I would expect county to bring in a three, four, | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
maybe five players in the January window. The cameo appearance from | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
James Forrest from two months out injured gave a teaser Ofwat Celtic | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
have been missing -- missing? was a big player last year, he | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
creates so much. He assists so many goals for Celtic. It was late for | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
him to get back in amongst it and they will give him a huge boost. I | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
would expect Celtic to go from strength to strength as far as the | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
League is concerned. You can see the delight on his face. He has | :42:03. | :42:10. | |
been out. You see that, this is an arrow straight that goes in. He was | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
a bit fortunate with his door yesterday, but given what he has | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
been through since October, you can't deny him a bit of joy. It is | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
not just the goals he scores, it is the once he creates as well. If you | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
have somebody like that, who is bringing you the ammunition, you | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
are going to get chances. Of course you are, but he can finish as well. | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
They can do without impossibly and their title charge but he is going | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
to be a big bonus for those two games against Juventus? I think | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
they need him in the title charge. Liam -- Neil Lennon has bemoaned | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
the chances have been taken and not created. I think if he is creating | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
chances for them, they will score. That is the first time Celtic have | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
turned somebody over in the SPL at home by four goals. They have been | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
a couple of draws, a couple of defeats, but scoring four goals is | :43:01. | :43:09. | |
an ominous sign. Away from home they have been sensational. I think | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
that now may be signals the fact that Celtic are ready to start | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
turning it on at Celtic Park. Cooper is racking up the goals as | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
these -- as he does come up to 15. How difficult walk it before Celtic | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
to persuade him to stay? There will be interest in him. His goal record | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
is sensational. He will be a big loss to Celtic if he has to go. | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
only fly and the element is he has started to attract international | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
recognition. I wondering if he feels that he has got to go to | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
England to get that elusive cap. Let's hope he stays, Celtic edging | :43:49. | :43:59. | |
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further ahead of the Clydesdale All the matches from 12:00pm until | :44:10. | :44:16. | |
7:30pm. We will have the highlights on Thursday night at 10:55pm. You | :44:16. | :44:20. |