Dundee 1
Hamilton Academical 1
League (First Division)

Match Report

Alan Kernaghan was taking a positive view after Steven Craig's late goal had snatched a point for Dundee after they had fallen behind to Hamilton at Dens, he said "I was delighted with our reaction to their goal, it had been quite tight up to the point where we gave the goal away and six or seven weeks ago we'd have lost the game after going behind. Let's take the positives out of it, we battled away well and showed that we're not going to lie down."

Dundee finished the match with young Scott Murray in goal after Derek Soutar had injured his knee on 72 minutes while stumbling as he came for a cross, Initially Soutar waved the physio away but just a minute of so later was replaced by the youngster after conceding the opening goal, Accies' substitute Patrick Keogh beating the keeper to a through ball to prod the ball home.

The Dark Blues might have folded against a visiting side who had passed the ball much better than their hosts, but while Dundee weren't putting any moves together they had battled throughout and they upped the pace to put pressure on the Hamilton defence and when the ball fell to Craig with three minutes remaining and the striker knocked it home from close range for his third goal in five starts, it didn't provide the result that the home fans wanted, but it was better than had seemed likely up to that point.

Kernaghan made that point "We'll take the point rather than none at all, I thought it was going to be our night, there wasn't much in it and I thought that one goal would win it. Unfortunately it took them going ahead before we put them under any pressure really. I know the fans aren't happy, that will come.

"Jim (Lyon) the physio went out and Derek waved him away, only 'Soapy' can tell you if he should have gone down and got treatment. If he was struggling maybe he should have thrown it out or kicked it out. But it's easy saying that in hindsight. He's in getting treatment, so I haven't had a chance to see how he is, we've got other knocks too - Lynch is struggling and Tam' McManus' calf went, it's the injury he picked up on Saturday, he just felt it tightening up.

"We'll see how 'Soapy' is in the day or two ahead, I thought he was playing really well, he'd come for some good crosses, I didn't even see what caused it at the time. "

We were wondering whether to replace Craig before he scored, he expended a lot of energy on that right hand side of midfield, playing in a four up against a five, and he did it well, he might have been tiring but we decided to throw three up front the last ten minutes and he took his goal well.

"I thought overall we showed a little bit of an improvement from Saturday, unfortunately the result wasn't as good."

Match report written by Dundee Matchday Programme