Dundee vs Heart of Midlothian 1 half
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00:00bench he's been used as a substitute in the last three outings looking to cement
00:06his place in the first team again it's got tiffany
00:17that one will hold up and awkward for mcgee well the game's not really settled
00:22in any pattern or rhythm yet both teams
00:29still just trying to find their way into it
00:35bundy started very brightly but hearts have managed to
00:42open up the home defense on a couple of occasions and look quite dangerous
00:46does it make much of a difference dundee have played
01:10five competitive games with their four four victories in the premier sports cup
01:14hearts is coming in having played 190 minutes at full competitive level
01:22you know it's a good point it um i think traditionally you would have you know the sides
01:31going through the pre-season and having pre-season games but with the the premier sports cup now
01:35there is that opportunity for sides to get competitive games earlier in the campaign
01:40i think for you know for hearts there's a number of players that obviously will affect
01:44i've been able to get a slightly longer break over the summer and i think that will have benefited them
01:53devlin and shanklin's trying to link up there
01:57two players that were away with their national teams in june
02:01while the premier sports cup group stages saw dundee heavy victors against bonnie regrows
02:10are both annan and again heavy victors against inverness caledonian thistle
02:1820 goals in their five games so far more than any other team in the pre-season
02:23inverness caledonian thistle
02:2720 goals in their five games so far more than anyone else in the country
02:35murray does well to find cameron now ingram
02:41palmer holding
02:44with a good delivery in towards tiffany and now cameron and sets it up for mccowan larkesh
02:54oh let's get enough bodies around it to block it off
03:02cameron trying to help it on and the home side and the fans have got their tails up
03:08while cameron ingram heads forward but it's out to palmer holding
03:16who scored early into his premiership debut against their bitter rivals dundee united
03:24well that was a good opening there as the ball lands at the edge of the box for luke mccowan here
03:34frankie kent comes off of him in the end just too many bodies in the way but
03:39as it comes back to him on his favored left foot
03:43he'll be disappointed he's not been able to navigate his way through there and make xander
03:48work that was good day good bit of play good pressure there from dundee
03:54xander clark mits q's mccowan might have thought about taking that on himself
04:00tiffany scott tiffany oh squeezes it through and dundee make hearts and clark pay
04:10scott tiffany beats the goalkeeper low in his near post
04:16dens comes to his feet and it's those in dark blue who celebrate scott tiffany promoted to
04:24the starting lineup and he scores to give dundee a 1-0 lead well it was almost a carbon copy from
04:33the first game last season mistake at the back it lands at luke mccowan and he chipped the goalkeeper
04:39on this occasion he didn't go for it and he plays that ball into scott tiffany it ends up
04:44being the right decision the great strike cuts in you see here kudiov very much kudov i think
04:53but as i said it ends up being the right decision because tiffany cuts in through the defender's
04:58legs very difficult for the goalkeeper when that happens it's a really clean strike where you go
05:04legs blocking the ball xander clark tries to get down he can't make the save but it was a
05:11terrible mistake in the first game that was a was a decisive deciding factor when luke mccowan
05:19chipped the goalkeeper and it could well prove to be that way again real poor error there from
05:27xander clark and they've been made to pay for it big time tony doherty's been speaking this week of
05:36the attitudes that scott tiffany has shown not sulking at finding himself out of the team
05:45and he has really
05:47been rewarded there i mean anybody that saw scott tiffany for a for park thistle
05:58when he was in the championship previously he never stops running he's a constant threat
06:04always looking to go and commit the opposition take them on have strikes gets the ball into the
06:09box and then when he signed for dundee last season i thought he would have had a bigger impact
06:18quicker than it transpired but he's certainly somebody that improved the squad as a whole and
06:27you see there that those you know comments from his manager i'd imagine he's somebody that you
06:32would really enjoy hovering around the place because even though he's not played as much
06:37as he probably would have wanted he's an effervescent type of character that
06:42brings a lot of energy to the squad that's one way to force yourself into the team
06:49parks need to try and force their way back into this game
06:53and sky rolls will be yellow carded for that challenge from lyle cameron
06:59well this is the initial pass that gets cut out from luke mccown he's trying to
07:07rectify the mistake yes he fills lyle cameron there there's probably enough for the referee
07:14to justify the yellow card coming out but i just think to myself as well that the two of them are
07:18stretching lyle cameron definitely gets there first there's no doubt that it is a free kick
07:24i just wonder whether the ref could have just kept his yellow card in the pocket
07:32of course a big switch up with the
07:36hierarchy in the refereeing system of scottish football this season will he call him new head
07:42of the referees and they've appointed john moss as the new var manager as well former
07:49english premier league referee
08:00well dundee will be delighted with the opening 25 minutes or so started very brightly the game
08:07just petering out a little bit for them but they've managed to get their noses in front now and
08:13they'll be feeling good about themselves
08:15hearts have got to show a reaction here
08:25devlin and penrice go after this one it's devlin's ball back
08:29left by shanklin and silla got back well i think he took a knock to the back of his head
08:36but dundee will motor forward again through cameron and mccowan and tiffany
08:44looks to thread it back through to mccowan silla remains down in the box with a head knock
08:49i think he's getting up rory but he's now going to be playing them all on side shanklin's in behind
08:55vargas he's filled but he's got to play that ball quicker well scott tiffany is booked for
09:03halting that play it was uh well certainly one to take for the team because as you say shanklin
09:10was in behind yeah but vargas i don't think he actually realizes that where shanklin was
09:17you see silla here this is great play from silla yet again yeah you can just see shanklin's coming
09:23down he catches him thankfully he's up and he's okay but it's great play from silla that's umpteen
09:29occasions already in this game that he has done just that breaking up the play vital interception
09:35there but he ended up playing them all on side to they got away with it to a certain extent by
09:43giving away the free kick here that's looking for a response will be barry mckay to deliver the free
09:50kick up goes frankie kent and knocked out by luke mccowan for a hearts corner put his hand up there
10:00as if he may well have been getting a shout to leave it and he's flicked it behind for a
10:08for a corner kick perhaps that's why he was just acknowledging
10:15he maybe shouldn't have done that
10:20barry mckay to try once more it's kent now shanklins
10:26well almost one that you expect him to finish it was well blocked off
10:32oh you're just wondering whether they were going to get punished for that shanklin around the back
10:37to larkesh is diving in with a great block i think it's portales is just ball watching
10:45for a split second and shanklin's in behind them unfortunately larkesh gets across and
10:53larkesh gets across and helps out
10:58well just a slight delay as var have a look and wait to see if there is any further
11:07action to be taken with that david dickinson and daniel mcfarlane are the two
11:11back at base watching these angles just in case it is the hand that stops this but
11:17play is back underway yes to the cheers of the home crowd unfortunately it wasn't too long a delay
11:22but you but you could see very quickly that there was nothing there to
11:26to be looking at for any extended period of time
11:30for any extended period of time
11:39i'm going to be relieved that it didn't go any further as well
11:48shanklins
11:52taylor there you go okay
11:55it certainly seems to be the indications coming and the early exchanges obviously
12:04were very early on in the new season but are that that law seems to have been relaxed a little which
12:12seems to be a lot more sensible so far it just seems to be interpreted by normal humans now
12:17so
12:23vargas breezes past his man
12:29mcgee flicks it out taylor to keep it going for hearts wants it on the right foot drives for the
12:35byline taylor it's over the top of vargas and everyone else who was waiting in the middle for
12:42the delivery mckay swinging towards shanklin and won't catch out mccracken at his back post
12:54well bernie mckay loves taking up positions like that and just trying to drift balls in behind
12:59the fences we slide through passes but on that occasion too much on it shanklin was a closely
13:08marked as well
13:13palma holden did well to keep it in play now silla looks for murray
13:18roll's got a touch but it will continue forward for dundee with lyle cameron
13:25ingram gets away down the right hand side penrice comes to confront him
13:32so at the moment it feels like the midfield three mccowan cameron and silla have got the
13:38upper hand in the game any loose ball that's in there they're onto it we've only really got
13:47grant and devlin as midfielders barry mckay is he's a wide man he's playing a little bit more central
13:56i do feel for hearts they are they're lacking in there
13:58out ethan ingram couldn't get enough on that to get it past cammy devlin mcgee
14:05flicks it back into the danger area and rather spectacularly hit by antonio portales
14:12could have been some effort if he found the back of the net from there he's now got to get back
14:17into position because vargas and taylor are going forward for hearts and down goes gerald taylor
14:25nothing coming his way and simon murray can pick up appeals for offside
14:33kent challenges murray was just a ricochet that continued the ball in that motion forward
14:50you can see shanklin there in the middle of the picture dropping deep to try and get on the ball
14:55and then running forward vargas picks up
15:00and silla again the man well placed to clear for dundee well that movement from shanklin there
15:07just shows perfectly that the freedom he's got to go and roam he was dropped right into the
15:12midfield recognized he wasn't going to be getting on the ball and then he busts forward and his
15:18movement forward there attracted a couple of players eventually the ball dropped to vargas
15:25and he almost managed to get a shot away on on target but just comes from the captain's movement
15:31that middle of the park for hearts is a problem at the moment though we're getting overrun
15:37lakesh forward and the flag goes up against simon murray
15:47and he's played for the rivals of both of tonight's teams former
15:51bernie and i've done the united player simon murray
16:01grant
16:04there you go kate
16:07taylor
16:10and mccowan picks up
16:12up
16:17breaking on to this trying to take it away from penrice gets a strike away
16:23clark saves and lyle cameron with a spectacular effort
16:28and held on to by xander clark good double save from the hearts keeper
16:32well it does end up being a good double save palmer holding good strike
16:37clark's he's in the right position it ends up being comfortable enough for him but
16:41it's a really good break from dundee
16:45larkesh playing the ball in behind palmer holding getting the run on penrice and then you see
16:50cameron getting up and support to get on the second ball yet again more evidence in the middle
16:57of the park where they're just over running hearts at the moment cameron getting onto the loose ball
17:03unable to get the strike away
17:14palmer holding is on loan from bristol city they had
17:18host of loan signings last season dundee but only larkesh and palmer holding so far this season
17:26looking to get players tied down and on contracts with the club
17:33oh okay
17:42this is the one of the slight concerns for for hearts for me is that the build-up just a little
17:51bit slow and then the lack of pace and the team you can see here they had control possession
17:57they lose it and they're getting countered on quite quickly there an inventive strike from
18:03from cameron and then tony docker it'll be pretty happy but um just lacking a little
18:08bit of speed in the hearts team and if they're lacking in the speed they've got to play quicker
18:14george grant's been seeing quite a bit of the ball in the middle of the park but for me he's
18:17got to do it a bit quicker he's got to speed things up he's been very controlled but it's
18:22been slowing a little bit too ponderous well the dundee fans wanted a free kick there for kent's
18:27challenge on murray certainly had a hold of the jersey whether it was
18:34as much coming from the dundee attacker
18:38may have been the viewpoint of don robertson dundee have it back in any case still up
18:45dundee's tails
18:48firmly up cameron's ball in it's just in front of simon murray
18:53not far away from connecting at all
18:57again it's a turnover higher the part to win the break quickly
19:02ever so close you see cameron has that look he knows exactly what he's trying to do but
19:10he may well claim that the wind caught it slightly and pulled it off course but
19:15very close to getting on the end of it simon murray
19:22so
19:35george grant it's hard to look for something before the break penrice
19:42portales away but we'll come back through rolls
19:47now shankland taylor he can't quite keep it in play just overran it
20:03yeah it looks like don robertson's giving the bike kick which i think's correct
20:07the linesman was pointing for a corner it was a bit of a unorthodox bit of defending from larkish
20:16you see here he goes to ground he's got no chance it doesn't touch the ball
20:22and it does go behind the byline for goal kick
20:3021 year olds from paris came through the paris saint-germain youth academy before heading to
20:38fulham and alone at barnsley now on loan from queen's park rangers
20:42there's cameron again picking up the second ball
20:55it's a real buzz ball of energy lyle cameron
21:13oh
21:16ingram
21:23gets himself in the right position wins the free kick
21:27well it's good defensive work from a cammy devil and i think it's just a little bit naive from
21:32ingram he goes down very easy cammy devlin but it's one of those ones but
21:40he just feels the slightest touch he's facing his own goal and he's going to go down and land
21:44on the ball for ingram he's just got to make sure he doesn't doesn't need to touch cammy devil and at
21:50all don't give him the excuse to be able to go down
22:07oh taylor away from larkes now taking on a host of dundee players it's mccowen who wins the ball
22:16back the dundee captain striding forward misses out murray finds palma holding it just wasn't
22:23quite as crisp as dundee needed that to be yeah but it was great play they forced taylor into
22:27exactly where they wanted to go infield oh well that is a very heavy challenge by gerald taylor
22:37and he could be in bother here don robertson is on the scene the dundee players taking real
22:42exception to that challenge from the costa rican gerald taylor who
22:50really was hearts outstanding player last week
22:55well don robertson's certainly given himself plenty time to just uh have a think about this
23:01but it is a yellow card for gerald taylor scott tiffany remains flat out on the turf and i think
23:10i mean the feelings from the players and the fans were that this could have been more
23:15i mean certainly in first view and you looked and felt like it was going to be a red card but
23:22watching the replay he's low he clatters on his body i think it's just with the force that you
23:29you think and feel that it's on the verge of a red card but you know seeing the replays
23:38well i think let's go through their check boxes yeah i think you know excessive force yes i think
23:43it's one that's very much on the the cusp but the referees decided the yellow card and i think
23:50there's there's probably enough in it to get away with a yellow but i tell you had he pulled the red
23:56out i don't think there would have been a i don't think it would get overturned let's say that
24:04but he's low yes there's a lot of force it's more his body that he catches him with rather than
24:10a trailing leg or a high boot he's certainly running the risk put that way
24:18but i think it's just about
24:20the right call you can see from tony doherty's reaction he was expecting that there may have been
24:30more punishment there for gerald taylor and john robertson may now have to come over and deal with
24:37the dundee boss for what he's said to the fourth official colin steven
24:46who me
24:51so
25:01the yellow card as well for tony doherty
25:15the thing is the managers have just been looking for consistency
25:18if there's going to be that level of just a little bit more leniency then as long as it's
25:25continued throughout the season but certainly these early stages a tackle like that
25:31it's on the cusp i can understand why tony doherty is going to be expecting more
25:37so after all that lyle cameron will take this free kick for dundee out comes zander clark solid
25:51claim what i was going to say before when taylor had the ball and he'd lost it he was driving in
25:57the middle of the park hearts don't have any real width in this game and they're suffering
26:03and taylor's gonna chase that one down but john mccracken sees it out for the goal kick
26:12you know that center of the park that i've already spoken about for dundee with cameron mccowan and
26:17silla they have got the upper hand hearts can't get through there there's too many bodies they
26:22don't have any width they don't have any penetration up high and they've had no fluency in their game
26:28whatsoever dundee have been able to control the pattern of the game for the large portion of this
26:34first half and tony doherty on the whole will be very happy with how things have been progressing
26:40so three minutes of additional time at the end of this first half
26:44stephen naismith goes through his plans for
26:49half-time team talk along with his coaching staff gordon forrest frankie mcavoy paul gallagher
26:56those all got that additional year on their contracts this week that's a perfect example
27:00there jerry taylor picked the ball lots of space but he had absolutely nobody in front of him
27:06look they go central back up the counter tiffany couldn't quite find cameron it could be on though
27:13it could be on though for larkesh and mccowan silla now
27:20dundee have got a far better balance to their team here they look a lot more comfortable
27:27ingram penrice it was an awkward one for the left back cameron can pick up
27:35palmer holding back to ingram murray's on the move shows for it in the box murray
27:40oh and it's gone in off gerald taylor
27:49dundee have a second in stoppage time at the end of the first half
27:54it's an own goal from gerald taylor who some may have wondered
28:00or suggested that he was fortunate to still be on the pitch
28:05but he's turned that beyond his own goalkeeper a complete miscue
28:13and hearts are in trouble at dens park
28:17great play from dundee i'll tell you in a really dangerous area simon murray and
28:22just gets it all wrong taylor
28:27what a wonderful time for dundee to double their lead and terrible for hearse
28:31right before halftime but you've got to say dundee deserve it they really do even before
28:37that it was another loose ball cameron picks it up it's been a recurring theme
28:41hearts don't look comfortable and dundee have forced them into playing predominantly on their
28:48own half having countered in one turnover and they've looked dangerous hearts need to make
28:54and they've looked dangerous hearts need to make changes a real reward for dundee's exploits in
29:01this first half look here pennies picks up he's got nothing nothing in front of him it's sideways
29:09it's back the way and then when they do try and play it's through the middle where dundee are
29:15wanting them to go
29:21and see that there rory when somebody is in the wide area higher up the park
29:25they're making runs from in to out so they're actually running away from goal
29:31very very difficult to then not really do anything with it
29:35Murray will tussle for this ball with Cairoles, George Grant given away and picked up by Cameron
29:51Tiffany outside and could it get even better for dundee that is going to be
29:56a penalty kick it might just get better
30:01dundee having a dream return to dense park as Tiffany goes down Frankie Kent left the leg out
30:09and hearts are really losing the plot here in the opening half it's the middle of the park
30:14yet again turnover it's a penalty kick all day long no question the pressure that dundee are
30:20putting on hearts and they have crumbled grant giving the ball away in the middle of the park
30:26i mean i can't believe that they've left it till halftime changes formation personnel
30:33needed to be made and now they could be looking at a three nil deficit at halftime penalty kick
30:39absolutely no doubt about it great play from dundee picking the ball up breaking on them
30:45Tiffany picked it up a few players around them but he keeps going forward keeps committing the
30:52opposition well luke mccowan dealt with the derby pressure to equalize a week ago
31:00he scored the winner against hearts in the opening game last season
31:09luke mccowan
31:10how to deal with all the off-field speculation luke mccowan has taken everything in his stride
31:31i know how the dundee support love their skipper
31:35and how they have loved this opening 45 minutes dundee three harteman lothian nil
31:43well it's a fine finish right in the corner pace and power and accuracy
31:49zander clock goes the right way but he's got no chance great finish from dundee's
31:55from dundee's captain luke mccowan three nil thoroughly deserved
32:01big questions to answer for hearts at halftime
32:06for tony docker he will be elated to how this has turned out
32:13well listen to the roar
32:17around dens parkins well george grant just reacting there
32:21and a bit of a flare-up
32:25between the two sets of players but that's stoppage time that half of football from dundee
32:34has really got the locals in the mood they are celebrating here a dream half of football for
32:41dundee and at the break the scoreline is dundee three heart of it loathian nil
32:51you