08-08-99 Dundee 3 Hibs 4
By Dundeefc.net
April 24 2002
SUN 8TH AUGUST 1999
Dundee 3 (Lovering og 56, McSkimming 57, Annand pen 72)
Hibs 4 (Lehmann 32, Sauzee 60, 83, Miller 91)
Subs: Grady (for Van Ejis 45) Robertson (for McSkimming 81) Bayne, Wilkie, Langfield
Att:6050
Steven Tweed's stoppage time hamstring injury while clearing from Hibs striker Kenny Miller may well have cost Dundee a point in this match. With the match a full minute (of the two minutes indicated) into the time added on the defender, who was obviously hampered should at least have gone down for treatment because it was into his area that Lovering sent the throw in and young Miller reacted far more quickly than Tweed could have hoped to in the circumstances to fire home. It was a shame for the central defender who had turned in a much better performance in a match which saw attackers well on top.
Hibs had dominated the first half almost completely, playing some delightful football, and Dundee were extremely lucky that only Lehmann's 32nd minute goal separated the sides. The half time introduction of James Grady for the totally ineffective Fran Van Eijs changed the shape of the game, and with a second half performance from Steven Boyack which won him the SKY man of the match award Hibs began to look like a side who will lose goals for fun this season.
The equaliser in 56 minutes was bizarre to say the least, a punt upfield from Douglas scuffed off Latapy's head but was cleared by Lovering, the ball however rebounded off Dennis and then back off Lovering before screwing past Gottalksson and into the net. Hibs were stunned and when Boyack raced down the right and cut the ball back a minute later they were even more shell shocked as McSkimming drifted in ath the back post to net with a low left foot drive.
Frank Sauzee had shown a powerful shot once or twice in the first period and it was to prove deadly when Latapy went down as he drifted past Smith 22 yards out in 60 minutes. TV replys seemed to confirm that the Trinidad and Tobago international had dived but that didn't matter to Sauzeee who curled the free kick around the wall with some pace. Rab Douglas looked as if he had a chance of reaching it but a defelection off Barry Smith's head ended that hope and the Hibees were level.
Twelve minutes later and Dundee were gifted another scoring chance, this time from the penalty spot as Lovering handled for no apparent reason, Eddie Annand sent the keeper the wrong way to send the Bobby Cox stand wild.
By this time Hibs had brought on young Kenny Miller and Dundee introduced Hugh Robertson for McSkimming as time ran out. Both sides continued to look better going forward than they were at the back and Latapy's corner with seven minutes to go saw Sauzee get his second deflected goal off the evening when his 20 yarder took a wicked glance off Lee Maddison with rab Douglas already diving in the other direction.
Then came Hibs late winner - perhaps deserved over the ninety minutes but a goal which my section of the Bobby Cox stand could have predicted 20 seconds before it happened - and which should have been prevented.