Dundee V Celtic Match Report
By James Hegarty
September 24 2002
Dundee Match report of the match against Celtic where Dundee were unfornate not to win after a great performance and a poor performance from the champions who looked tired.
Dundee 1 - Celtic 1
Dundee Team: Speroni, MacKay, Smith, Hutchinson
(Lovell 79), Novo, Hernandez Santos, Rae (Booked), Nemsadze, Caballero, Sara,
Wilkie. Celtic Team: Douglas, Valgaeren, Balde, Laursen,
Sylla (Crainey 80), Lambert, Lennon (Booked), Petrov, Guppy, Larsson, Sutton (Hartson
74). Attendance: 9,483 There was a good attendance
with 9,483 nearly double that was at the Partick game the week before. The
only bad note for the attendence was the poor crowd in the Derry with most
choosing to go to the pub to watch the game instead of coming to the game. Referee: J Underhill
Subs Not Used: Langfield, Milne, Mair, Brady.
Subs Not Used: Gould, Fernandez, Maloney.
Celtics poor performance puts them a point behind rangers after a narrow win on Sunday against Dundee.
A good goal from Henrik Larsson was just nearly enough to seal the points after a very poor performance from a poor Celtic side.
Dundee battled the whole game and were unlucky not to score or win with a good few chances. Though chances did fall to both sides.
The way Celtic performed they will be lucky to get a victory against most sides and it shows the difference between Celtic and what could be classed as a pub side FK Suduva. Celtic were the average Scottish club and FK suduva were the small pub side.
Celtic played the same side that played FK Suduva and Dundee made 2 changes to the team that grinded out a draw against Partick with Nemsadze replacing Gary Brady and Juan Sara replacing Steven Lovell.
Dundee had a problem with the defence at first due to the pace but gradually came around and left Celtic defending after Larsson scored in the 18th minute.
Nacho Novo performed good until he got a bad tackle and hurt his ribs but however Novo still managed to play the whole game.
Dundee almost brought the score level just before half time when Valgaeren headed Gavin Raes pass to Nacho Novo but the Spanish Striker was unfornate to hit the side netting.
In the second half Dundee continued to dominate and Dundee nearly went level with a hard Fabian Caballero shot from 25 yards out just scriffed the cross bar but looked as if it was heading for the top corner.