17/08/99 Dundee 4 Dumbarton 0

By Dundeefc.net
April 24 2002

TUE 17TH AUGUST

DUNDEE 4(Boyack 17, 90 Falconer 31, 35) DUMBARTON 0

Att:3780 CIS Insurance Cup Round 2

Douglas Miller, Tweed, Smith, Sharp Boyack, Rae, Robertson, Yates Annand, Falconer

Subs: McSkimming for (Robertson 73) Raeside (for Yates 78) Van Eijs (for Miller 45)

Willie Falconer took his tally for the season to five with Steven Boyack matching his brace on the night as Dundee eased past Dumbarton. To their credit however the 'Sons' always tried to play football, although they rarely threatened - With a wonderful Rab' Douglas save from Robertson's rasping 25 yard free kick on the stroke of half time the only time Dundee looked in any real danger of conceding a goal.

The Dees took the lead after 17 minutes of gentle sparring as Willie Miller released Boyack on the right, the star midfielder raced into the box evading a challenge before lashing a 15 yarder high into the net. The second goal just after the half hour came when Yates hit a crossfield ball in the direction of Annand, Eddie's first touch took him away from goal but he turned and attacked the full back before whipping in a cross for Falconer to connect with a flying header for his fourth goal of the season.

It wouldn't take long for him to add number five and it came when Dumbarton had failed to take advantage of a corner in thirty five minutes. Dundee broke quickly through Annand, and when Smith and Boyack combined wide on the left the latter's pass inside was lashed home by Falconer from 25 yards. Minutes later he was close to a hat-trick when his looping header came back off the crossbar The second half saw Dundee create plenty of chances but as time ran out they didn't look likely to add to the evening's tally until Barry Smith took a hand with a couple of minutes to go. First he had a twenty yarder deflected away for a corner and when it was cleared he hammered in a thirty five yarder which screamed to safety off the base of the keeper's right hand post. His colleagues seemed to take inspiration from this and a flurry of pressure ended with a low Boyack left foot drive which sneaked into the bottom corner of the net to end the scoring.