Match Thread [FT] Dundee Utd 1 - 3 Rangers (Diomande 37; Propper 49; Dessers 86)

[Scott7 6,812]

A good game of football judging by the tv highlights (which is not a good way to to assess a match)

 

The defence really needs a pair of bruisers who can head the ball. The current lot are weak. Some of them  -  ok, Jefte  -   turns his back on the cross instead of blocking it with his face if need be. He’s a good footballer but he’s not a defender. Davie Robertson wasn’t a big lad but he was afraid of nothing.

 

Butland was good.

 

The attacking play was good. Dessers was excellent. Has he turned a corner just as he’s about to leave?

 

United played pretty well. Had a real go.

 

Never ever a red card. Anyone else see a physical resemblance between Clancy and Walsh and even to a lesser extent Robertson? Not quite brothers but cousins

[Gribz 1,316]

  On 26/01/2025 at 16:10, CammyF said:

It's actually worse than I thought. We are the only team in the entire SPFL 4 divisions that haven't had a penalty in the league. 

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Thats nuts and that was going to be the line of my next thought / question - must be the only top flight team in the UK without a Penalty. 

[Gribz 1,316]

Am I right in remembering Walsh was the Ref for last years Scottish Cup Final and their 12th man??

[CammyF 9,454]

[RANGERRAB 4,105]

  On 26/01/2025 at 22:37, Gribz said:

Am I right in remembering Walsh was the Ref for last years Scottish Cup Final and their 12th man??

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You are correct. He was match ref & Beaton was on VAR.

Awarded then disallowed a Sima goal after Beaton directed him to VAR for a non-existent push in Joe Hart who had simply misjudged the cross. Walsh gladly obliged to disallow the goal to help his team out. Beaton remains in Brenda’s back pocket after the hearts game last season when he correctly call a penalty on VAR which somehow upset Brenda. The SFA did nothing to protect him.

 

[CammyF 9,454]

  On 27/01/2025 at 08:28, RANGERRAB said:

You are correct. He was match ref & Beaton was on VAR.

Awarded then disallowed a Sima goal after Beaton directed him to VAR for a non-existent push in Joe Hart who had simply misjudged the cross. Walsh gladly obliged to disallow the goal to help his team out. Beaton remains in Brenda’s back pocket after the hearts game last season when he correctly call a penalty on VAR which somehow upset Brenda. The SFA did nothing to protect him.

 

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Let's not forget that before the "foul" on Hart, there were 2 fouls on Rangers players. So when the goal was disallowed, then we should have been awarded a penalty. 

[RANGERRAB 4,105]

  On 27/01/2025 at 08:40, CammyF said:

Let's not forget that before the "foul" on Hart, there were 2 fouls on Rangers players. So when the goal was disallowed, then we should have been awarded a penalty. 

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Remember too it was Beaton on VAR who caused the goal to get disallowed. Walsh just seized the opportunity 

However back to yesterday and surely diomande’s red card will get rescinded once the incident is viewed from another angle 

[CammyF 9,454]

  On 27/01/2025 at 08:53, RANGERRAB said:

Remember too it was Beaton on VAR who caused the goal to get disallowed. Walsh just seized the opportunity 

However back to yesterday and surely diomande’s red card will get rescinded once the incident is viewed from another angle 

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You'd think, but after yesterday's hastily released SFA statement "backing" Walsh, I'm not so sure. 

[JohnMc 3,225]

I've not seen it mentioned but for the Dundee Utd goal watch the foul on Diomande as the ball comes in. 

 

As everyone else is saying delighted with that result. Our vulnerability at crosses will remain until Balogun or Souttar return, in the meantime we just need to get on with it. He didn't take the headlines but Igamane is a joy to watch. His touches and turns are sublime and he almost guarantees at least one nutmeg a game. Winning is the most important thing but it's nice to be entertained too, to admire skill for skill's sake.

What a finish from Dessers, 5 goals in 3 games, happy for him to shut up critics like me. 

 

As for the sending off, it's hard to look at it and not see bias. The hand ball too, deliberate or not he's bouncing the ball with his hand and yet that's not a penalty it seems. 

[Yorkie Bear 759]

  On 27/01/2025 at 08:58, JohnMc said:

 

 

He didn't take the headlines but Igamane is a joy to watch. His touches and turns are sublime and he almost guarantees at least one nutmeg a game. Winning is the most important thing but it's nice to be entertained too, to admire skill for skill's sake.

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Could not agree more.