DUTV
STORY OF THE MATCH | RANGERS (A)
25th November 2024
The Tannadice youth team may have come away from Lennoxtown empty-handed on Saturday, but no one has run Celtic, who have won all their games and yet to conceded a goal this season, closer.
And for maintaining that astonishing record they owe a huge debt of gratitude to their keeper Robbie Thomson, the son of the former United keeper and Hibs goalkeeping coach, Scott.
The hosts broke the deadlock through Bahrudin Atajic in on 35 minutes and if that was deserved on the evidence of the first half, the second period was a totally different story.
Indeed, Celtic were very much on the back foot as the Tangerine teenagers dominated.
Apart from Thomson's heroics, both Willie Robertson and Gavin Stokes missed the target by inches when they seemed certain to score.
Amongst several of the defiant stops by Thomson, he brilliantly tipped over a Stuart Armstrong header.
In addition, the visitors were denied what looked a stonewall penalty for handball, so when Islam Feruz sealed victory with a fine finish in the final ten minutes, it really rubbed salt into Tannadice wounds, because their performance deserved better than a two-goal reversal.
Dundee United: McCallum. Lee. Mosson, Young, Shaw, W Robertson, Swanson (Scott 46), Stokes (Campbell 76), Elfverson (Ferguson 86), Armstrong, Thomson, Sub not used: Leitch)
Celtic (4-3-3) Thomson; O'Donnell, Toshney, Hughes, Brennan; McGregor, Bagshaw, Lowdon; Ordish (Gormley 75), Atajic (Feruz 80), P. Twardzik
And for maintaining that astonishing record they owe a huge debt of gratitude to their keeper Robbie Thomson, the son of the former United keeper and Hibs goalkeeping coach, Scott.
The hosts broke the deadlock through Bahrudin Atajic in on 35 minutes and if that was deserved on the evidence of the first half, the second period was a totally different story.
Indeed, Celtic were very much on the back foot as the Tangerine teenagers dominated.
Apart from Thomson's heroics, both Willie Robertson and Gavin Stokes missed the target by inches when they seemed certain to score.
Amongst several of the defiant stops by Thomson, he brilliantly tipped over a Stuart Armstrong header.
In addition, the visitors were denied what looked a stonewall penalty for handball, so when Islam Feruz sealed victory with a fine finish in the final ten minutes, it really rubbed salt into Tannadice wounds, because their performance deserved better than a two-goal reversal.
Dundee United: McCallum. Lee. Mosson, Young, Shaw, W Robertson, Swanson (Scott 46), Stokes (Campbell 76), Elfverson (Ferguson 86), Armstrong, Thomson, Sub not used: Leitch)
Celtic (4-3-3) Thomson; O'Donnell, Toshney, Hughes, Brennan; McGregor, Bagshaw, Lowdon; Ordish (Gormley 75), Atajic (Feruz 80), P. Twardzik
