Dundee V Aberdeen Match Report
By James Hegarty
October 20 2002
Match Report from Dundee's Match from yesterday against Aberdeen. Dundee managed to keep there unbeaten run at Pittodrie and there run of not conceding a goal there since Ebbe Skodvahl become the manager.
Subs Not Used: Preece, Tiernan, Billio.
Dundee: Speroni, Smith, MacKay, Hutchinson,
Wilkie (Booked), Hernandez Santos, Milne, Nemsadze (Booked) (Khizanishvili
84), Rae, Novo (Sara 87), Caballero.
Subs Not Used: Langfield, Mair, Brady.
Attendance: 14,003
Ref: M McCurry (Referee Rating 4/10)
We went to Pittodrie with no defeat since October 1993 to Aberdeen and having not conceded a goal there under Ebbe Skodvahl time as manager of Aberdeen.
There were not many chances in the game with the few chances that were made either being stopped by a good save or the player sliding on the wet pitch.
There were 1 change to the Dundee Side after there last game against Kilmarnock with Brady being dropped to the bench and Seven Milne coming into his place on the side.
Aberdeen had the first chance after just 4 minutes where Derek Young had a good cross and Leon Mike got on the end of it with a good header and an even better save from Julian Speroni.
Dundee dropped Nacho Novo to midfield after a spell of Aberdeen controlling the midfield Dundee then began to control the game.
Nacho had a good shot in 33rd minute but Peter Kjaer pulled off a good save.
Aberdeen nearly went 1 up when Darren Young managed to get past Lee Wilkie with his pace and he fired a shot in Julian Speroni managed to get a hand to the ball to knock the shot off the post.
The Second half was very quiet but Lee Wilkie had two chances after 2 Fabian Caballero Free Kicks they were both deflected off the defensive wall and knocked to Lee but on both occasions Lee was slow to react and the ball was cleared.
The was a positive to the game though when Zura Khizanivilli came on in the 78th minute for Georgi Nemsadze, Zura's first appearance for Dundee this Season after being out for a year with a knee injury.
Dundee should have had a stone wall penalty after a number of dubious decision's from Referee Mike McCurry kept denying Dundee Free Kicks and giving Aberdeen free kicks anytime a player went down even if they were cause they tripped. In the last minutes of the game Steven Milne broke free in the box was about to beat the defender and have a one on one chance with the goal keeper which Milne could have easily scored only to be picked up and wrestled to the ground by the Aberdeen defender who then got away with it.
Mike McCurry looked like he was away to give it and then he just continued running and ignored the foul.
Both team's deserved the draw just unfortunate Dundee didn't sneak the win.
Dundee go to Hearts next week with only losing 1 game in our last 8 which was against Celtc, And having only had 3 defeats in 11 games.
Hopefully we can keep this run up which could guarantee us Europe next season if we do.
Man of the Match: Hard to decide as most players were even but it would have to go to Lee Wilkie for another solid Performance.