Dundee 1
Greenock Morton 0
League (Premier Division)

Match Report

An absolute gem of a game with 24-carat performances from all 25 players. Dundee and Morton attacked at every opportunity and served up a non-stop thriller with countless goalmouth incidents.

How only one goal was scored will remain a mystery for Sherlock Holmes to solve. Both sides could have notched double figures.

Ian Redford, of Dundee, in particular, had more gilt edged chances than he has had hot dinners. He rattled a post, whacked the crossbar, and bruised Roy Baines' ribs with a dozen thunderbolts.

But it was the same Redford who eventually broke the deadlock when he stopped a Mackie cross, beat a defender, and crashed an angular drive into the net.

Morton were not out of it by any means. The slumbering giant, Andy Ritchie, was roused into two magnificent runs, and laid on super chances for Thomson and Hutchison-but both were missed. Tolmle, too, was a persistent thorn in the Dundee defence, and his razor-sharp attacks almost bore fruit with a second-half rocket that rattled off the Dundee crossbar.

Still, Dundee's catalogue of misses continued. Murphy Intercepted a Holmes' pass, closed in on Baines, squared the ball along the six-yard line, and the chance was lost.

Dundee kept control by getting more men up In attack just that bit faster than Morton. The visitors depended on the skill of Ritchie to produce the goods, and for once his wizardry was not rewarded.

The only black mark in this epic was John Cralg being booked for fouling Schaedler. Dundee's all-stars were all heroes. Morton had outstanding players In Baines, McLaughlin, Ritchle and Tolmle.

Match report written by The Sporting Post